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 kale soup, express seafood spaghetti or curried turkey paupiettes.

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
  • 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 spaghetti with beef balls, casserons in the country style or suckling pig leg in the oven.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Spohr

  • 2015With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 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: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. 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 Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

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 word of the wine: Organoleptic

Elements, such as flavours and tactile sensations, that can stimulate a sensory receptor.

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.

News about Winery Spohr and wines from the region

Master Sommelier Larry Stone explains why he sold Lingua Franca to Constellation Brands

Stone will remain on board as a brand ambassador and adviser to the business he created back in 2012. The winemaking team, spearheaded by Thomas Savre and Burgundian consultant Dominique Lafon, is still in place too. ‘We’re all still there and we’re going to keep making great wine, but we will have better resources,’ Stone told Decanter.com. Stone, a Master Sommelier, purchased the 61 hectares Janzen Farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley on December 31, 2012. He had been working at Evening Land’s a ...

Brad Pitt’s Rosé Champagne chosen for Oscars 2022

Fleur de Miraval will be poured at the Dolby Theatre during the Oscars (27 March), as well as during the Governors Ball – the Academy’s official afterparty – and at other Oscars-related events in Los Angeles, New York City, and London, including the Oscars Nominees Luncheon on 7 March. Serving Fleur de Miraval Rosé Champagne, best known for its association with Pitt, was a ‘natural choice’, the champagne brand said in a statement announcing the news. ‘Fleur de Miraval will now ...

How the fine wine market looks heading into autumn 2022

The fine wine market goes into autumn 2022 after a particularly strong period of gains, although there has been greater uncertainty about momentum in recent weeks. At Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade, the Liv-ex 100 index dipped 0.3% in July 2022 but had risen every month for two years prior to that. UK-based merchant Bordeaux Index recently reported prices on the market up by 10% in the first half of 2022, with Burgundy up 26% on average. Strong activity on the LiveTrade online tradin ...

The word of the wine: Organoleptic

Elements, such as flavours and tactile sensations, that can stimulate a sensory receptor.