The Winery Sander of Rheinhessen

Winery Sander - Dornfelder
The winery offers 50 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 204 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Sander is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 50 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Sander wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Sander

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Sander

How Winery Sander wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of spaghetti with knackis, rabbit with hunter's sauce or gloom and doom.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Sander

On the nose the red wine of Winery Sander. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Sander. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Sander

  • 2012With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.61/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Spätburgunder
  • Dornfelder
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Blauer Portugieser

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 white wines of Winery Sander

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Sander

How Winery Sander wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of pasta carbonara, scallops with chorizo sauce or chicken with courgettes and curry.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Sander

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

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Sander

  • 2008With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.71/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.65/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.65/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.64/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.64/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Weissburgunder
  • Chardonnay
  • Grauburgunder
  • Silvaner
  • Merlot

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 sweet wines of Winery Sander

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Sander

How Winery Sander wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of the real vegetables stuffed in the provençal way, waterzooï of the sea or shrimp risotto with curry.

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

  • Riesling

The word of the wine: Deposit

Solid particles that can naturally coat the bottom of a bottle of wine. It is rather a guarantee that the wine has not been mistreated: in fact, to avoid the natural deposit, rather violent processes of filtration or cold passage (- 7 or - 8 °C) are used in order to precipitate the tartar (the small white crystals that some people confuse with crystallized sugar: just taste to dissuade you from it)

The top sparkling wines of Winery Sander

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Sander

How Winery Sander wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of bare-assed cockerel (ardennes), salmon and parmesan quiche without pastry or mutton stew with potatoes and garlic.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Sander

  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Riesling

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Sander

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Sander

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

The word of the wine: Aranean

The underside of a grape leaf blade covered with tiny hairs distributed in a web-like pattern.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Sander

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 Sander.

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

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The word of the wine: Deposit

Solid particles that can naturally coat the bottom of a bottle of wine. It is rather a guarantee that the wine has not been mistreated: in fact, to avoid the natural deposit, rather violent processes of filtration or cold passage (- 7 or - 8 °C) are used in order to precipitate the tartar (the small white crystals that some people confuse with crystallized sugar: just taste to dissuade you from it)