The Winery Rainer Stork of Rheinhessen

Winery Rainer Stork
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Rainer Stork is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Rainer Stork wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Rainer Stork

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Rainer Stork

How Winery Rainer Stork wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of phad thai (thai style fried noodles), beef tournedos with boursin or croziflette.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Rainer Stork.

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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.

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Discover the grape variety: Saint-Côme

Saint-Côme blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Aveyron). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. The white Saint-Côme can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Rainer Stork and wines from the region

Rare Glen Grant whisky sells for record-breaking HK$937,500

A rare bottle of Gordon & MacPhail’s Glen Grant 72-year-old whisky has broken its own previous auction world record in a sale at Bonham’s Hong Kong on 20 May. The single bottle sold for HK$937,500 (US$120,000/£95,403) including buyer’s premium. This figure is more than double the price a bottle of the same whisky sold for at a Bonham’s Hong Kong sale in January 2021 (HK$421,600). Distilled by Speyside producer Glen Grant in 1948, the rare single malt was ​​created by independent Scotch bottl ...

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Grands Chais de France purchases historic Stellenbosch winery

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The word of the wine: Amber

(1) A colour close to amber, sometimes taken on by white wines aged for a long time, or by oxidising prematurely. (2) A term used on the label to designate white Rivesaltes aged for at least thirty months in an oxidizing environment.