The Winery Schmidheiny of Eastern Switzerland

Winery Schmidheiny - Balios Cuvée Zweigelt - Diolinoir
The winery offers 20 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 16 of the estates of Eastern Switzerland.
It is located in Eastern Switzerland
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The Winery Schmidheiny is one of the world's great estates. It offers 20 wines for sale in of Eastern Switzerland to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Schmidheiny wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Schmidheiny

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Schmidheiny

How Winery Schmidheiny wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of lamb tagine with broad beans, croque madame or pasta with zucchini sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Schmidheiny

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Schmidheiny. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Schmidheiny

  • 2011With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Pinot Noir
  • Zweigelt
  • Diolinoir
  • Leon Millot
  • Cabernet Cubin

Discovering the wine region of Eastern Switzerland

St. Gallen is a German-speaking Canton of eastern Switzerland with a corresponding AOC. Much of the winegrowing that does occur within its borders takes place in the Rheintal region (the upper Rhein Valley) whose name often appears more prominently on labels. However, even here, wine production is not the dominant land-based industry.

Rheintal is a wine region which Lies at the far eastern edge of Switzerland, running North to South along the Swiss borders with Austria and Liechtenstein. As the name suggests ("tal" is a Germanic suffix denoting a valley), the focus of this region is the valley of the Rhein river – specifically the upper Rhein between Graubunden and Lake Constance. After making its way down from its source at the Tomasee, high in the Alps, the Rhein turns northwards, through the substantial valley it has carved out for itself over many millennia. Both broad and flat, this area is highly fertile, based on mineral-rich alluvium brought downriver from the mountains to the west.

This forms an oasis of Green among the dark grey ridges of the Alps. As such there are many alternative land uses which compete with viticulture, including habitation. Pinot Noir is the most commonly planted Grape. It is helped to ripen by the Warm föhn wind, known here as the "Traubenkocher" (grape cooker).

The top white wines of Winery Schmidheiny

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Schmidheiny

How Winery Schmidheiny wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of spicy food, sweet desserts or beef such as recipes of steak tartare, ultra-fast and yet so light... or beef marengo "my mom" style.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Schmidheiny

  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5

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

  • Müller-Thurgau
  • Muscat Blanc
  • Johanniter
  • Merlot
  • Zweigelt
  • Blauburgunder

Discover the grape variety: Johanniter

An interspecific cross between Riesling and FR 589-54 (Seyve-Villard 12481 x (pinot gris or rülander x chasselas or gutedel)) obtained in Germany in 1968 by Johannes Zimmermann. It has the particularity of having only one gene for resistance to mildew and powdery mildew. This variety can be found in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, etc. In France, it is practically unknown. Note that the "Johanniter" grape variety is a protected trademark.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Schmidheiny

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

Discover the grape variety: Diolinoir

Intraspecific cross between robin noir and pinot noir obtained in 1970 by André Jacquinet of the Swiss Federal Research Station Agroscope Changins-Wadenswil (Switzerland).

News about Winery Schmidheiny and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Stopper (taste of)

A defect in the wine reminiscent of the smell and taste of mouldy cork.