The Winery Prelude of Eastern Switzerland

Winery Prelude - Greco Di Tufo
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 58 of the estates of Eastern Switzerland.
It is located in Eastern Switzerland

The Winery Prelude is one of the world's great estates. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Eastern Switzerland to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Prelude wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Prelude

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Prelude

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Prelude

  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5

Discovering the wine region of Eastern Switzerland

St. Gallen is a German-speaking Canton of eastern Switzerland with a corresponding AOC. Much of the winegrowing that does occur within its borders takes place in the Rheintal region (the upper Rhein Valley) whose name often appears more prominently on labels. However, even here, wine production is not the dominant land-based industry.

Rheintal is a wine region which Lies at the far eastern edge of Switzerland, running North to South along the Swiss borders with Austria and Liechtenstein. As the name suggests ("tal" is a Germanic suffix denoting a valley), the focus of this region is the valley of the Rhein river – specifically the upper Rhein between Graubunden and Lake Constance. After making its way down from its source at the Tomasee, high in the Alps, the Rhein turns northwards, through the substantial valley it has carved out for itself over many millennia. Both broad and flat, this area is highly fertile, based on mineral-rich alluvium brought downriver from the mountains to the west.

This forms an oasis of Green among the dark grey ridges of the Alps. As such there are many alternative land uses which compete with viticulture, including habitation. Pinot Noir is the most commonly planted Grape. It is helped to ripen by the Warm föhn wind, known here as the "Traubenkocher" (grape cooker).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Prelude

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

Discover the grape variety: Seyval

Seyval blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhône-Alpes valley). It is a variety resulting from a cross of the same species (interspecific hybridization). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium-sized bunches and small to medium-sized grapes. Seyval blanc can be found cultivated in the following vineyards: Rhône Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Languedoc & Roussillon, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Prelude and wines from the region

Asolo Prosecco – Young at heart, wise in spirit

I n 2009 Prosecco was re-mapped in sweeping changes that created an extensive new zone for the production of Prosecco DOC and elevated the traditional growing areas of Valdobbiadene-Conegliano to DOCG, Italy’s top denomination. At that time, one might have overlooked the fact that the new legislation also created a small, independent DOCG for Asolo Prosecco to the west of the river Piave. The sparkling wines of the area had low visibility, producers were few and production was limited. However t ...

Behind LVMH’s Himalayan wine project: the villages of Ao Yun

It’s no easy task to establish a super-premium wine in an entirely new region, particularly when inviting potential retail partners or distributors to the vineyard involves journeying to a distant corner of the Himalayas in the outer reaches of the Yunnan province, southwestern China. For my journey, after four flights from Bordeaux to Shanghai, Chengdu then Shangri-La, it was a four-hour drive up through stunning mountain passes to the foothills (here, that means 2,200m above sea level) of the ...

Rare Lafite 1887 magnum tops £22,000 in Sotheby’s auction

A magnum of Lafite Rothschild 1887 sold for £22,500 ($28,300) at a Sotheby’s auction of ‘vinous treasures’ spanning nearly 200 years. The wine, held in storage with Octavian group in Wiltshire, had a pre-sale high estimate of £18,000. A single bottle of Château d’Yquem 1831 sold for £27,500 (pre-sale high estimate: £20,000). Another bottle of Yquem, from the 1896 vintage, sold for £15,000, tripling its pre-sale high estimate. ‘An extraordinary wine from a very great Sauternes vintage,’ said Sere ...

The word of the wine: Eye

In tasting, this is the first phase of the analysis of the wine, which consists of describing its visual aspect (colour, intensity, clarity, brilliance and possible defects).