Winery Peter Mertes - Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red

Winery Peter MertesPlatinum Dornfelder Sweet Red

3.5
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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters generally liked this wine.
The Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red of Winery Peter Mertes is a sweet wine from the region of Rheinhessen.
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.

Details and technical informations about Winery Peter Mertes's Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red.

Winemaker
Peter Mertes
Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
Allergens
Contains sulfites

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

Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red - 2016
In the top 100 of of Rheinhessen wines
Average rating: 3.311100
Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red - 2015
In the top 100 of of Rheinhessen wines
Average rating: 3.51110.50
Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red - 2014
In the top 100 of of Rheinhessen wines
Average rating: 3.311100

The best vintages of Platinum Dornfelder Sweet Red from Winery Peter Mertes are 2015, 2016, 2014

Informations about the Winery Peter Mertes

The winery offers 147 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
This winery is part of the Peter Mertes.
It is in the top 20 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Rheinhessen
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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.

Top wine Rheinhessen
In the top 15000 of of Germany wines
In the top 2000 of of Rheinhessen wines
In the top 8000 of sweet wines
In the top 300000 wines of the world

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.

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The word of the wine: Lightning

Large capacity barrel.

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