The Winery Rotwild of Rheinhessen

Winery Rotwild - Dornfelder Halbtrocken
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
This estate is part of the Peter Mertes.
It is ranked in the top 683 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Rotwild is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Rotwild wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Rotwild

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Rotwild

How Winery Rotwild wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of simple chinese noodle soup, vitello alla genovese (roast veal with sponge cake) or bare-assed cockerel (ardennes).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Rotwild

On the nose the red wine of Winery Rotwild. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Rotwild. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Rotwild

  • 2015With an average score of 3.67/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.65/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.38/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.28/5

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

  • Dornfelder
  • Regent

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 sweet wines of Winery Rotwild

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Rotwild

How Winery Rotwild wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of pasta with tuna and laughing cow, pork tenderloin with chorizo and peppers or turkey stuffed with chestnuts.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Rotwild

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Rotwild. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, red fruit. In the mouth the sweet wine of Winery Rotwild. is a mainly marked by the residual sugar.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Rotwild

  • 2008With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Dornfelder

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Rotwild

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Rotwild

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

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Rotwild

  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Dornfelder

The word of the wine: Pinot meunier

Cultivated in the 19th century in all the northern vineyards, this black grape variety has largely regressed since. Very present in the Marne valley, it constitutes a third of the vineyards in Champagne, alongside pinot noir and chardonnay with which it is often blended. It brings roundness and red and yellow fruit aromas to champagnes. Pinot meunier is also the dominant grape variety in red and rosé wines in the Orleans AOC and the rare Touraine-Noble-Joué, a grey wine. Syn.: meunier.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Rotwild

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 Rotwild.

Discover the grape variety: Regent

A complex interspecific cross between the diana (sylvaner x Müller-Thurgau) and the chambourcin obtained in Germany in 1967 by Gerhardt Alleweldt. It can be found in Quebec (Canada), Belgium and Switzerland, but is little known in France. It should be noted that Regent, a monogenic variety, which is nevertheless resistant to certain cryptogamic diseases, was "bypassed" in 2010 by a less resistant strain of mildew, which was also the case for bianca.

News about Winery Rotwild and wines from the region

European Parliament rejects health warnings on wine labels

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Bordeaux 2022 harvest: Vintage looks ‘very promising’

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Chablis wines with Joe Fattorini in The Wine Show @Home

In this first episode of a series dedicated to Chablis wines on @The Wine Show @Home, wine expert and TV host Joe Fattorini introduces the vineyards and the wines of Chablis through a tasting of three wines: a Petit Chablis, a Chablis and a Chablis Premier Cru. #PureChablis #BourgogneWines #Chablis ...

The word of the wine: Pinot meunier

Cultivated in the 19th century in all the northern vineyards, this black grape variety has largely regressed since. Very present in the Marne valley, it constitutes a third of the vineyards in Champagne, alongside pinot noir and chardonnay with which it is often blended. It brings roundness and red and yellow fruit aromas to champagnes. Pinot meunier is also the dominant grape variety in red and rosé wines in the Orleans AOC and the rare Touraine-Noble-Joué, a grey wine. Syn.: meunier.