The Weingut Achenbach of Rheinhessen

Weingut Achenbach
The winery offers 52 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 2478 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen
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The Weingut Achenbach is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 52 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Weingut Achenbach wines

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

The top white wines of Weingut Achenbach

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Weingut Achenbach

How Weingut Achenbach wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or vegetarian such as recipes of veal shoulder with cream and tarragon, pork cheeks confit in cider or nanie's diced ham quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Weingut Achenbach

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

The best vintages in the white wines of Weingut Achenbach

  • 0With an average score of 3.75/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Weingut Achenbach.

  • Riesling
  • Weissburgunder
  • Grauburgunder
  • Silvaner
  • Auxerrois
  • Huxelrebe

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 Weingut Achenbach

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Weingut Achenbach

How Weingut Achenbach wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of leek pie, veal cutlets with cream sauce or stuffed tomatoes with thermomix.

The best vintages in the red wines of Weingut Achenbach

  • 0With an average score of 3.76/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Weingut Achenbach.

  • Spätburgunder
  • Dornfelder
  • Pinot Noir Précoce
  • St. Laurent

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 pink wines of Weingut Achenbach

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Weingut Achenbach

How Weingut Achenbach wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of vegetarian such as recipes of nanie's diced ham quiche.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Weingut Achenbach.

  • Spätburgunder

The word of the wine: Aging

Period during which a wine is kept in a cellar where it goes through different phases of evolution of its aromatic range and a maturation of its constituents (evolution of the colour, refining of the tannins, harmonization of the different flavours, etc.). The wine evolves better and less quickly in large containers, whereas it deteriorates prematurely in half-bottles.

The top sparkling wines of Weingut Achenbach

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Weingut Achenbach

How Weingut Achenbach wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of baked sardines with garlic or lamb curry indian style.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Weingut Achenbach.

  • Pinot Blanc

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Weingut Achenbach

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 Weingut Achenbach.

Discover the grape variety: Grauburgunder