The Winery Riffel of Rheinhessen

Winery Riffel - Scharlachberg Riesling Trocken
The winery offers 55 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 209 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

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.

Top Winery Riffel wines

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.

The top white wines of Winery Riffel

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Riffel

How Winery Riffel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of sausages with kale, norman mussels with cider or tuscan linguine.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Riffel

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.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Riffel

  • 2011With an average score of 4.02/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.94/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.85/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Silvaner
  • Chardonnay
  • Weissburgunder
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Scheurebe

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 Riffel

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Riffel

How Winery Riffel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of provencal stew, potjevlesch (northern france) or duck breast in a crust.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Riffel

  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Spätburgunder
  • Dornfelder
  • Blauer Portugieser

Discover the grape variety: Scheurebe

German grape variety obtained in 1916 by Georg Shere (1879/1949). It was given until then as coming from a cross between Riesling and Sylvaner, but genetic tests have shown that its father is the Bouquettraube (Bukettrebe), and it is closely related to the Kerner. The Scheurebe can be found in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Slovenia, Great Britain, the United States (California, Virginia, ...), Canada (Ontario, British Columbia, ...), ... practically unknown in France.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Riffel

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Riffel

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 cod and potato gratin or cuttlefish rust.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Riffel

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Riffel. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, tree fruit or citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Riffel

  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Pinot Blanc
  • Scheurebe
  • Müller-Thurgau

The word of the wine: Barrel

A wooden barrel made of oak that varies in size depending on the region and is used to age wines. Some white wines are vinified and aged in barrels.

The top pink wines of Winery Riffel

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Riffel

How Winery Riffel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of vegetarian such as recipes of quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese.

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

  • Dornfelder
  • Spätburgunder
  • Blauer Portugieser
  • Müller-Thurgau

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Riffel

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 Riffel.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

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The word of the wine: Barrel

A wooden barrel made of oak that varies in size depending on the region and is used to age wines. Some white wines are vinified and aged in barrels.