The Winery Spohr of Rheinhessen

Winery Spohr
The winery offers 49 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 1451 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Spohr is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 49 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Spohr wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Spohr

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Spohr

How Winery Spohr wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of steamed pork chops, chicken curry with coconut milk and cashew nuts or buckwheat fritters with olives and mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Spohr

On the nose the white wine of Winery Spohr. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Spohr. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Spohr

  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.74/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.62/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.61/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.53/5

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

  • Grauburgunder
  • Riesling
  • Spätburgunder
  • Chardonnay
  • Scheurebe
  • Weissburgunder

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 Spohr

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Spohr

How Winery Spohr wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of quick salmon and zucchini lasagna, flights in the wind à la provençale or the tartiflette wrap.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Spohr

  • 2015With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.71/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Dornfelder
  • Lemberger
  • Blauer Portugieser
  • Spätburgunder
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Blauer Portugieser

The top pink wines of Winery Spohr

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Spohr

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

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Spohr

  • 0With an average score of 3.70/5

The word of the wine: Tertiary aromas

Aromas resulting from the aging of the wine in the bottle. The aromas evolve with time, from fresh fruitiness to notes of stewed, candied or dried fruit, to aromas of venison or undergrowth.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Spohr

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 Spohr.

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.