The Winery Riffel is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 55 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Riffel wines in Rheinhessen among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Riffel 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 Riffel wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Riffel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of pork gyros, shrimp in coconut milk or coral lentil dahl.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Riffel. often reveals types of flavors of lemon, earth or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, non oak or microbio. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Riffel. is a powerful with a nice freshness.
71% white region: Riesling is king (5,000 ha), dry to off-dry, ripe yellow fruit, apple, citrus and fine saline minerality. Supple, floral Müller-Thurgau for everyday, the world's largest Silvaner plantation with herbaceous, straight notes. Historic cradle of off-sweet Liebfraumilch. Some supple reds (Dornfelder, Spätburgunder).
Germany's largest vineyard (26,800 ha) between Mainz, Alzey and Worms, warm microclimate, limestone and loess soils. Marked qualitative renewal.
How Winery Riffel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of chinese noodles with beef, paupiettes à la mérignicaise or duck legs with honey and orange.
Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.
How Winery Riffel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of mackerel in white wine or seafood pie.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Riffel. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, tree fruit or citrus fruit.
One of the most famous terroirs of the Champagne region, from Épernay to Vertus, mainly devoted to Chardonnay, hence its name. The villages of Chouilly, Cramant, Cuis, Mesnil-sur-Oger, Avize, etc., lying on the chalk, are in a way to Champagne what Meursault, Chablis and Puligny are to Burgundy.
How Winery Riffel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of vegetarian such as recipes of quiche lorraine.
Aromatic, structured whites with lively acidity and a round mouth, featuring intense aromas of pink grapefruit, blackcurrant, passion fruit, white flowers and muscat notes. Made as aromatic dry wines (Trocken), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and especially sumptuous botrytised sweet wines (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese). Grown in Germany (Rheinhessen, Palatinate) and Austria. Created in 1916 by Georg Scheu in Alzey, a Riesling × Bukettrebe cross.
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Elegant, full-bodied dry whites with a pale golden color, ample palate and preserved fresh acidity, offering refined aromas of white fruits (apple, pear), almond, hazelnut, white flowers (acacia) and mineral notes (limestone, flint). Fine barrel-ageing and cellaring potential. Star of great German-speaking whites: Baden VDP, Palatinate VDP, Wachau DAC, Alto Adige DOC (as pinot bianco). German synonym for pinot blanc, a white-skinned mutation of pinot noir.
