The Winery Peter Mertes of Rheinhessen

Winery Peter Mertes - 3 Jahr Riesling Lieblich
The winery offers 147 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
This estate is part of the Peter Mertes.
It is ranked in the top 80 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen
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The Winery Peter Mertes is one of the world's great estates. It offers 147 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Peter Mertes wines

Looking for the best Winery Peter Mertes wines in Rheinhessen among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Peter Mertes 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 Peter Mertes wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Peter Mertes

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Peter Mertes

How Winery Peter Mertes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of sausages with kale, pasta with tuna, garlic and lemon cream or curried coral lentils.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Peter Mertes

On the nose the white wine of Winery Peter Mertes. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, pear or grapefruit and sometimes also flavors of petroleum, nectarine or floral. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Peter Mertes. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Peter Mertes

  • 2020With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.74/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.72/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Chardonnay
  • Silvaner
  • Müller-Thurgau
  • Chenin Blanc
  • Grüner Veltliner

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 sweet wines of Winery Peter Mertes

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Peter Mertes

How Winery Peter Mertes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of kig ar farz breton, lamb shoulder confit with harissa or chicken colombo (west indies).

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Peter Mertes

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Peter Mertes. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, strawberries or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, red fruit or pear.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Peter Mertes

  • 2013With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2011With an average score of 2.77/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Peter Mertes.

  • Riesling
  • Dornfelder
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Silvaner
  • Moscato

Discover the grape variety: Kerner

Intraspecific crossing between frankenthal and riesling obtained in Germany in 1929 by August Karl Herold (1902/1973). In 1951 and by crossing it with the sylvaner, we obtained the juwel. It should be noted that there is a mutation of Kerner, discovered in 1974 and bearing the name of kernling, with grapes of pink-grey to red-grey colour at full maturity. Kerner can be found in Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan... practically unknown in France except in a few Moselle vineyards.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Peter Mertes

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Peter Mertes

How Winery Peter Mertes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal paupiettes with cider, rabbit stew the old fashioned way or oven roasted rabbit that cooks itself!.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Peter Mertes.

  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir
  • Morio-Muskat

The word of the wine: Deposit

Solid particles that can naturally coat the bottom of a bottle of wine. It is rather a guarantee that the wine has not been mistreated: in fact, to avoid the natural deposit, rather violent processes of filtration or cold passage (- 7 or - 8 °C) are used in order to precipitate the tartar (the small white crystals that some people confuse with crystallized sugar: just taste to dissuade you from it)

The top red wines of Winery Peter Mertes

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Peter Mertes

How Winery Peter Mertes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of fettuccine with cream and cheese, paupiettes in a casserole with cream or baked bread (tomato, mushroom, ham, cheese).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Peter Mertes

On the nose the red wine of Winery Peter Mertes. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, blackberry or vanilla and sometimes also flavors of cranberry, non oak or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Peter Mertes. is a .

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Peter Mertes

  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.48/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.41/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.31/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.15/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Dornfelder
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Regent
  • Kadarka

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Peter Mertes

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Peter Mertes

How Winery Peter Mertes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Peter Mertes

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Peter Mertes. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, strawberries or raspberry and sometimes also flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Peter Mertes

  • 2019With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Peter Mertes.

  • Dornfelder

The word of the wine: Trading

Term used to designate the wine trade and related professions. Sometimes used in contrast to viticulture.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Peter Mertes

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 Peter Mertes.

Discover the grape variety: Müller-Thurgau

Müller-Thurgau shows the character of its noble origins. This Swiss white grape variety is a cross between the royal madeleine and the riesling. The idea that the latter was crossed with the sylvaner is irrelevant. The variety can be recognized by its vigorous character and its semi-erect habit. Preferring rich soils and short prunings, the plant sees its buds open quite early. The buds are cottony and soft green in color. The slightly embossed and tormented blade, with 5 to 7 lobes, makes it possible to distinguish the adult leaves. The clusters appear compact, pyramidal or cylindrical in shape and small to medium in size. The flavour of the Müller-Turgau berries is reminiscent of Muscat. The juicy and crunchy pulp is revealed under a greyish skin. When ripe, the fruit has a mottled shell on a golden yellow background. Switzerland prefers to extract the juice from this variety. The wine made from it is rather heavy and does not keep well.

News about Winery Peter Mertes and wines from the region

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The Krondorf facility is where Burge’s enigmatic wine empire began in 1978, when he created the successful Krondorf Wines label in partnership with the late Ian Wilson. After selling the Krondorf brand to Mildara Blass Wines, he bought the winery site to establish Grant Burge Wines in 1988, a label that grew to produce 750,000 dozen wines a year and turn over $70m. Grant Burge Wines is a brand now owned by Accolade Wines, having been sold by Burge and his wife Helen in January 2015 [announcement ...

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The word of the wine: Deposit

Solid particles that can naturally coat the bottom of a bottle of wine. It is rather a guarantee that the wine has not been mistreated: in fact, to avoid the natural deposit, rather violent processes of filtration or cold passage (- 7 or - 8 °C) are used in order to precipitate the tartar (the small white crystals that some people confuse with crystallized sugar: just taste to dissuade you from it)