The Winery Rappenhof of Rheinhessen

Winery Rappenhof
The winery offers 91 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 585 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Rappenhof is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 91 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Rappenhof wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Rappenhof

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Rappenhof

How Winery Rappenhof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of cassoulet, californian sushi (reverse maki) or moroccan veal tagine from hanane.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Rappenhof

On the nose the white wine of Winery Rappenhof. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or earth and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, tropical fruit or microbio. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Rappenhof. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Rappenhof

  • 1990With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Rappenhof.

  • Riesling
  • Gewürztraminer
  • Weissburgunder
  • Grauburgunder
  • Sauvignon Blanc

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 red wines of Winery Rappenhof

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Rappenhof

How Winery Rappenhof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef luc lake, veal cutlets with savoy tomme or rabbit, cabbage, bacon.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Rappenhof

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Rappenhof. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Rappenhof

  • 0With an average score of 3.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 2.90/5

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

  • Spätburgunder
  • Dornfelder

Discover the grape variety: Spätburgunder

The top sweet wines of Winery Rappenhof

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Rappenhof

How Winery Rappenhof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of capellini with prosciutto, oven-roasted breton lobster with salted butter from the jaguin brothers (the... or couscous chicken and merguez.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Rappenhof

  • 0With an average score of 4.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Rappenhof.

  • Riesling

The word of the wine: Grape varieties

All the grape varieties that make up a vineyard, an appellation, a wine region.

The top pink wines of Winery Rappenhof

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Rappenhof

How Winery Rappenhof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of braised veal heart with carrots, new york hot dog or adapted vietnamese fondue.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Rappenhof.

  • Pinot Noir

Discover the grape variety: Gewurztraminer

Gewurztraminer rosé is a grape variety that originated in France. 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 vine is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Gewurztraminer rosé can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Jura, Champagne, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Rappenhof

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Rappenhof

How Winery Rappenhof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast veal with chanterelles and cream, creole chipolatas or oven roasted rabbit with mustard.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Rappenhof.

  • Pinot Noir

The word of the wine: Polyphenols

Substance contained essentially in the skin of the grape. The main ones are anthocyanins, which give red wines their colour and tannins.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Rappenhof

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 Rappenhof.

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.