The Winery Peter Mertes Tradition of Rheinhessen

Winery Peter Mertes Tradition
The winery offers 15 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 443 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Peter Mertes Tradition is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 15 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Peter Mertes Tradition wines

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

The top sweet wines of Winery Peter Mertes Tradition

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

How Winery Peter Mertes Tradition wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of vegetable planter, gratin of ravioli with salmon or tunisian pasta.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Peter Mertes Tradition

In the mouth the sweet wine of Winery Peter Mertes Tradition. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Peter Mertes Tradition

  • 2013With an average score of 4.07/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.96/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.68/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Müller-Thurgau
  • Silvaner
  • Kerner
  • Spätburgunder

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 Peter Mertes Tradition

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

How Winery Peter Mertes Tradition wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of quiche with mixed vegetables, shrimp in red sauce or butternut soufflé.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Peter Mertes Tradition

On the nose the white wine of Winery Peter Mertes Tradition. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or spices. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Peter Mertes Tradition. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Peter Mertes Tradition

  • 2008With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.48/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Piedirosso

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 Peter Mertes Tradition

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 Tradition.

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.

News about Winery Peter Mertes Tradition and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Chardonnay

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Chardonnay, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bourgogne ...

The Morey Saint Denis appellation investigated through its geology and geography

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of the Morey-Saint-Denis appellation. The vineyard lies on an intensely fractured area. Several characteristic zones can be distinguished, we can say that each Climat has its own personality. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program broadcasted in April 2021 ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Lugny

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Lugny, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines ...

The word of the wine: Cord

Management of trellised vines.