The Winery Schales of Rheinhessen

Winery Schales
The winery offers 90 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 1683 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Schales is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 90 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Schales wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Schales

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Schales

How Winery Schales wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or pork such as recipes of monkfish tagine, rabbit with tomato or rabbit in sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Schales

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Schales. is a with a nice freshness.

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

  • Grauburgunder
  • Riesling
  • Gelber Muskateller
  • Scheurebe
  • Merlot
  • Huxelrebe

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 Schales

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Schales

How Winery Schales wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of scottish haggis, rack of lamb with herbs or quick duck breast with honey.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Schales

  • 2013With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Spätburgunder
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Dornfelder
  • Pinot Noir

Discover the grape variety: Siegerrebe

An intraspecific cross between the Madeleine angevine and the Gewurztraminer obtained in 1929 by Georg Scheu at the Alzey testing station (Germany). Almost unknown in France, it can be found in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, England, the United States, Canada, etc.

The top sweet wines of Winery Schales

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Schales

How Winery Schales wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of papillotes of mackerel, phad thai (thai style fried noodles) or gaufress and light.

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

  • Gewürztraminer
  • Kanzler

The word of the wine: Sweet

Generic term for wines containing residual sugar (natural sugars in the grapes that have not been transformed into alcohol). It is also used to describe a wine with a dominantly sweet flavour, without further explanation.

The top pink wines of Winery Schales

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Schales

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

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

  • 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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Schales

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 Schales.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

News about Winery Schales and wines from the region

Lirac & Tavel 2020: report and top-scoring wines

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The word of the wine: Sweet

Generic term for wines containing residual sugar (natural sugars in the grapes that have not been transformed into alcohol). It is also used to describe a wine with a dominantly sweet flavour, without further explanation.