The Winery Waterkant of Rheinhessen

Winery Waterkant
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 760 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Waterkant is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Waterkant wines

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

The top pink wines of Winery Waterkant

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Waterkant

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

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 white wines of Winery Waterkant

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Waterkant

How Winery Waterkant wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of quick beef bourguignon, honey chicken wok style or coconut chicken and curry.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Waterkant

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The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Waterkant

  • 2019With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.65/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.63/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Grauburgunder
  • Chardonnay
  • Weissburgunder
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Riesling

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

The top red wines of Winery Waterkant

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Waterkant

How Winery Waterkant wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fondue bourguignonne and accompanying sauces, leg of lamb in a herb crust with preserved vegetables or duck breast with foie gras sauce.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Waterkant

  • 2015With an average score of 2.80/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

The word of the wine: Thinning

Also known as green harvesting, the practice of removing excess bunches of grapes from certain vines, usually in July, but sometimes later. This is often necessary, but not always a good thing, as the remaining bunches often gain weight.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Waterkant

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 Waterkant.

Discover the grape variety: Weissburgunder

News about Winery Waterkant and wines from the region

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At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Vinzelles

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Vinzelles, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneW ...

The word of the wine: Thinning

Also known as green harvesting, the practice of removing excess bunches of grapes from certain vines, usually in July, but sometimes later. This is often necessary, but not always a good thing, as the remaining bunches often gain weight.