The Winery Weingut Eller Dorn-Dürkheim of Rheinhessen

Winery Weingut Eller Dorn-Dürkheim - Acolon Spatlese Trocken
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 3247 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Weingut Eller Dorn-Dürkheim is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Weingut Eller Dorn-Dürkheim wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Weingut Eller Dorn-Dürkheim

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Weingut Eller Dorn-Dürkheim

How Winery Weingut Eller Dorn-Dürkheim wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef pot au feu (grandma's style) or autumn pumpkin pie.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Weingut Eller Dorn-Dürkheim.

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  • Merlot

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Weingut Eller Dorn-Dürkheim

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 Eller Dorn-Dürkheim.

Discover the grape variety: Candin

Interspecific crossing between 7489 (direct white producer hybrid) and Hamburg Muscat obtained in 1981.

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The word of the wine: R-C (champagne)

Harvesting-cooperator. It is the cooperative which elaborates the champagne of its members from their mixed contributions. It gives them bottles on which they stick their own label. It is legal without being intellectually honest. When you walk around the Champagne region, you may come across signs that say "Vigneron récoltant" to indicate a member of a cooperative. You can always ask him where his vats and press are.