The Winery Schloss Altendorf of Schwyz

Winery Schloss Altendorf - Cuvée Rouge
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Schwyz.
It is located in Schwyz

The Winery Schloss Altendorf is one of the best wineries to follow in Schwyz.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Schwyz to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Schloss Altendorf wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Schloss Altendorf

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Schloss Altendorf

How Winery Schloss Altendorf wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of shoulder of lamb stuffed with cognac, tagliatelle with carbonara or roast doe in the oven.

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

  • Pinot Noir
  • Gamaret

Discovering the wine region of Schwyz

The wine region of Schwyz of Switzerland. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Irsslinger or the Domaine Gebr. Kümin Weinbau und Weinhandel produce mainly wines white and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Schwyz are Pinot noir, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Dornfelder, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety.

We currently count 3 estates and châteaux in the of Schwyz, producing 7 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Schwyz go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal.

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Planning a wine route in the of Schwyz? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Schloss Altendorf.

Discover the grape variety: Gamaret

Gamaret noir is a grape variety that originated in Switzerland. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of vine is characterized by medium-sized bunches, and grapes of medium size. Gamaret noir can be found in many vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Languedoc & Roussillon.

News about Winery Schloss Altendorf and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘Rosé, for the time being, is a pretty babble’

Many wine styles can seem perplexing at first: imagine the first bottle of Barolo if you only know Barossa Shiraz, or the first bottle of Jura Savagnin if you were brought up on California Chardonnay. With time, thought and repeated tasting, though, comes understanding. You learn each wine’s syntax and lexicon, its hints and inferences. You grasp the ways in which each style communicates. Its beauty dawns, then grows. Rosé wine sales grew 23% worldwide between 2002 and 2019. Its fuel has come fr ...

Tributes paid to Paul Pender

Canada’s wine community is mourning the sudden loss of beloved Ontario winemaker Paul Pender. Passing away at the age of just 54, Pender died ‘unexpectedly under tragic circumstances’ on 4 February, 2022, as announced by sister wineries Tawse and Redstone.    Before becoming director of viticulture and winemaking at Tawse and Redstone, he was a carpenter. When he developed an allergy to the dust and solvents, he went back to school to study winemaking at Niagara College in 2004. Pender’s interns ...

Behind LVMH’s Himalayan wine project: the villages of Ao Yun

It’s no easy task to establish a super-premium wine in an entirely new region, particularly when inviting potential retail partners or distributors to the vineyard involves journeying to a distant corner of the Himalayas in the outer reaches of the Yunnan province, southwestern China. For my journey, after four flights from Bordeaux to Shanghai, Chengdu then Shangri-La, it was a four-hour drive up through stunning mountain passes to the foothills (here, that means 2,200m above sea level) of the ...

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)