The Winery Simon Erben of Rheinhessen

Winery Simon Erben - Bekonder Schlossberg Riesling Trocken
The winery offers 26 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 995 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Simon Erben is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 26 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Simon Erben wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Simon Erben

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Simon Erben

How Winery Simon Erben wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of wild boar bourguignon, squid from the mouth of the cavado river (portugal) or algerian couscous.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Simon Erben

On the nose the white wine of Winery Simon Erben. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Simon Erben. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Simon Erben

  • 2011With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.53/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.27/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Grauburgunder

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 Simon Erben

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Simon Erben

How Winery Simon Erben wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of trofie ( pasta ) paradiso, vienna cutlets or brussels sprouts with bacon in a casserole.

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

  • Dornfelder

Discover the grape variety: Riesling

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

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Simon Erben

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 Simon Erben.

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.

News about Winery Simon Erben and wines from the region

St-Emilion 2022 classification promotes Château Figeac to Premier Grand Cru Classé A

St-Emilion’s Wine Council announced its eagerly-anticipated ranking this afternoon, bringing a decade of disputes and court battles to an end. The classification awards Premier Grand Cru Classé A status to just two producers, while it also recognises 12 Premier Grands Crus Classés (B) and 71 Grands Crus Classés. These rankings can cause a winery’s value to soar – they have been likened to the Michelin guide for restaurants – so winemakers across the region awaited the results with bated breath t ...

Cambridge University’s King’s College earns £1.3m by auctioning off rare Burgundies

The ‘Generations of Jayer’ collection included 42 lots of some of the finest Burgundies ever bottled. A 12-bottle case of Grand Cru Henri Jayer for Georges Jayer, Echézeaux 1999 from Côte de Nuits led the charge, selling for £100,000 at the London auction. The second priciest lot was the Henri Jayer for Georges Jayer, Echézeaux 2001, which received a winning bid of £85,000. Henri Jayer was dubbed the ‘godfather of Burgundy’ after pioneering a range of key innovations in the region. He believed t ...

Prices rising for top California wines

Prices have been rising on California fine wines, and especially Screaming Eagle, said Liv-ex this week. Its California 50 index, which tracks the price performance of Screaming Eagle, Harlan Estate, Dominus, Opus One and Ridge Monte Bello, has increased by around 32% in the last year. ‘High quality and heightened demand have led to rising prices,’ said Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade. Its figures provide more evidence of a strong 12 months for the fine wine market in general, and fol ...

The word of the wine: Alcohol

A generic term for the various alcohols produced during fermentation that give the wine body, structure and warmth.