The Winery Weingut Dorwagen of Rheinhessen

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The winery offers 114 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 1249 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Weingut Dorwagen is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 114 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Weingut Dorwagen wines

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

The top sweet wines of Winery Weingut Dorwagen

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Weingut Dorwagen

How Winery Weingut Dorwagen wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or vegetarian such as recipes of roast veal in the oven, cajun jumbalaya rice or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Weingut Dorwagen

In the mouth the sweet wine of Winery Weingut Dorwagen. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Weingut Dorwagen

  • 2015With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Weingut Dorwagen.

  • Ortega
  • Silvaner

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 Weingut Dorwagen

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Weingut Dorwagen

How Winery Weingut Dorwagen wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of chicken lasagna, osso-bucco with asian flavours, funambuline style or quick brioche sausage.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Weingut Dorwagen

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Weingut Dorwagen. is a with a nice freshness.

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

  • Dornfelder
  • Spätburgunder
  • Regent

Discover the grape variety: Regent

A complex interspecific cross between the diana (sylvaner x Müller-Thurgau) and the chambourcin obtained in Germany in 1967 by Gerhardt Alleweldt. It can be found in Quebec (Canada), Belgium and Switzerland, but is little known in France. It should be noted that Regent, a monogenic variety, which is nevertheless resistant to certain cryptogamic diseases, was "bypassed" in 2010 by a less resistant strain of mildew, which was also the case for bianca.

The top white wines of Winery Weingut Dorwagen

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Weingut Dorwagen

How Winery Weingut Dorwagen wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of traditional welsh dark beer, croque-monsieur with tuna or panga curry.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Weingut Dorwagen

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Weingut Dorwagen. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

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

  • Scheurebe
  • Gewürztraminer
  • Riesling
  • Ortega
  • Grauburgunder
  • Huxelrebe

The word of the wine: Grape varieties

All the grape varieties that make up a vineyard, an appellation, a wine region.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Weingut Dorwagen

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 Weingut Dorwagen.

Discover the grape variety: Ortega

An intraspecific cross between Müller-Thurgau and Siegerrebe obtained in 1948 by Hans Breider (1908-1960) at the Bavarian Research Station for Viticulture and Horticulture in Veitsnöchheim (Germany). Almost unknown in France, it can be found in Germany, Belgium, England, the United States and Canada. Its early maturity and muscatel taste have sometimes led to it being offered as a table grape on market stalls.

News about Winery Weingut Dorwagen and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Grape varieties

All the grape varieties that make up a vineyard, an appellation, a wine region.