The Winery Nightstar of Rheinhessen

Winery Nightstar
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 615 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Nightstar is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Nightstar wines

Looking for the best Winery Nightstar wines in Rheinhessen among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Nightstar wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Nightstar wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Nightstar

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Nightstar

How Winery Nightstar wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of flammekueche with munster cheese, very soft beef bourguignon or salty crumble with courgettes, goat cheese and bacon.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Nightstar

On the nose the red wine of Winery Nightstar. often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Nightstar

  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Nightstar.

  • Dornfelder

Discovering the wine region of Rheinhessen

Rheinhessen is Germany's largest region for producing the quality wines of the Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete (QbA) and Prädikatswein designations, with roughly 26,500 hectares (65,000 acres) of Vineyard">Vineyards as of 2014. Many of its most significant viticultural areas are favorably influenced by the Rhine river, which runs aLong its North and eastern borders. The Rhine, along with the Nahe river to the west and the Haardt mountains to its South, form a natural border. Rheinhessen covers an area south of Rheingau, north of Pfalz and east of Nahe, and is located within the Rhineland-Palatinate federal state.

The region has been cultivating Grapes for wine production at least since ancient Roman occupation. It's also the home to the oldest surviving records of a German vineyard. Named Glöck, the vineyard was included in a deed for a church and vineyards gifted by Carloman – a duke of the Franks of the Carolingian family and the uncle of the first Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne – to the diocese of Würzburg in 742. Within a century, dozens of villages were cultivating grapes throughout Rheinhessen.

An early documentation of Riesling as a distinct grape variety, identified as Rüssling, was also found in records from the city Worms dating back to 1402. The Size of the region, and its location on the Rhine, has given it a significant role in Germany's wine industry history. Its largest city, Mainz, has been an unofficial Center for wine trade, being home to several national wine organizations including the German Wine Institute and the Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates (Verband Deutscher Prädikats-und Qualitätsweingüter e. V.

The top white wines of Winery Nightstar

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Nightstar

How Winery Nightstar wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of lentils and morteau sausages, scallops or chicken legs and changing.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Nightstar

On the nose the white wine of Winery Nightstar. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Nightstar. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Nightstar

  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Nightstar.

  • Riesling

Discover the grape variety: Riesling

White Riesling is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Riesling can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Nightstar

Planning a wine route in the of Rheinhessen? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Nightstar.

Discover the grape variety: Dornfelder

German, intraspecific cross made in 1955 by August Karl Herold (1902-1973) between the helfensteiner and the heroldrebe (more details, click here!). With these same parents he also obtained the hegel. The Dornfelder can be found in Switzerland, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Canada, United States, ... . Virtually unknown in France, we nevertheless recognize a certain interest in it due to its short phenological cycle and the quality of its wines, both rosé and red.

News about Winery Nightstar and wines from the region

Third batch of Diageo’s Prima & Ultima collection revealed

Prima & Ultima – meaning ‘first and last’ – showcases whiskies that are exactly that: either the first or the last of their kind. The eight single malts in this year’s line-up were chosen by Diageo master blender Dr Craig Wilson, following in the footsteps of previous Prima & Ultima creators Maureen Robinson and Dr Jim Beveridge OBE. The whiskies include the final Brora bottling from 1981, and spirit from the last two casks of Port Ellen filled in 1980, as well as single malts from Royal ...

Rare Napa Cabernet sells for $1m at US charity auction

A six-litre bottle of The Setting Wines’ ‘Glass Slipper Vineyard’ Napa Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 fetched $1m during the Carnivale du Vin auction and gala dinner held during the Emeril Lagasse Foundation’s annual fundraising weekend this month. The sale makes the 100% Cabernet Sauvignon one of the most expensive wines ever sold at auction. ‘We are humbled to be able to offer $1 million to the Emeril Lagasse Foundation and its efforts to support youth,’ said Don Steiner, who bought the six-litre Nap ...

Decanter’s Regional Editors pick out their top wines for Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

In the first part of this series, see the wines that the Decanter editorial team is most excited about tasting at the Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC on Saturday 18th June 2022. Amy Wislocki – Decanter Magazine Editor Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2019 At the end of every year at Decanter, we organise a ‘Wines of the Year‘ tasting. We ask our key contributors and editorial staff to pick out the wines that most impressed them during the year just gon ...

The word of the wine: Nervous

Said of a wine that leaves its mark on the palate with its strong characters and a hint of acidity, but without excess.