The Winery Volker Schmitt of Rheinhessen

Winery Volker Schmitt
The winery offers 24 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Volker Schmitt is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 24 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Volker Schmitt wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Volker Schmitt

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Volker Schmitt

How Winery Volker Schmitt wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of baeckeoffe, cod and potato gratin or mussels with rosemary and barbecue.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Volker Schmitt

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Volker Schmitt. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Volker Schmitt

  • 0With an average score of 3.81/5

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

  • Albariño
  • Chardonnay
  • Riesling
  • Weissburgunder
  • Sauvignon Blanc

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 Volker Schmitt

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Volker Schmitt

How Winery Volker Schmitt wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef with cider, purple leg of lamb with red wine and cranberries or empanadas de carne (argentina).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Volker Schmitt

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Volker Schmitt

  • 2015With an average score of 4.15/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.98/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Spätburgunder
  • Sylvaner
  • Sankt Laurent

Discover the grape variety: Albarino

It is a Spanish variety, in Galicia to be precise, with its cradle in the Rias Baixas area, around Pontevedra and up to Orense. It would be a close relative of the Loureiro. Widely cultivated in Portugal, ... in France, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

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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 Volker Schmitt.

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.