The Winery Sankt Urban of Rheinhessen

Winery Sankt Urban - Dornfelder Rheinhessen Rotwein
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Sankt Urban is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Sankt Urban wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Sankt Urban

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Sankt Urban

How Winery Sankt Urban wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of light lasagne without béchamel sauce, roast veal in the oven or sausages with kale.

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

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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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Sankt Urban

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 Sankt Urban.

Discover the grape variety: Arruffiac

An old grape variety from the Adour valley, registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1. It should not be confused with the raffiat de Moncade, which originated in the same region and is also white.

News about Winery Sankt Urban and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Doucillon

See bourboulenc.