Winery Peter MertesPlatinum Dornfelder Sweet Red
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or veal.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red of Winery Peter Mertes in the region of Rheinhessen often reveals types of flavors of cherry, strawberries or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, red fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red
Pairings that work perfectly with Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red
Original food and wine pairings with Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red
The Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red of Winery Peter Mertes matches generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of mami's macaroni and gruyere gratin, veal paupiettes with white wine or roast pork orloff.
Details and technical informations about Winery Peter Mertes's Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red.
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.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red from Winery Peter Mertes are 2015, 2016, 2014
Informations about the Winery Peter Mertes
The Winery Peter Mertes is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 150 wines for sale in the of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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 word of the wine: Fulfilled
Said of a wine at its peak that is balanced and offers all its aromatic potential.
