The Winery Weingut Lucius of Rheinhessen

Winery Weingut Lucius - Blanc de Noir Spätlese Trocken
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 3590 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Weingut Lucius is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Weingut Lucius wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Weingut Lucius

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

How Winery Weingut Lucius wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of vegetarian, pork or spicy food such as recipes of spinach and goat cheese quiche, spaghetti squash with cream and bacon or express chicken skewers with spices.

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

  • Spätburgunder
  • Grauburgunder
  • Siegerrebe
  • 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 Winery Weingut Lucius

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

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

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

  • Regent
  • Blauer Portugieser

Discover the grape variety: Siegerrebe

An intraspecific cross between the Madeleine angevine and the Gewurztraminer obtained in 1929 by Georg Scheu at the Alzey testing station (Germany). Almost unknown in France, it can be found in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, England, the United States, Canada, etc.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Weingut Lucius

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 Lucius.

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.

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The word of the wine: Tartar (deposit)

White, chalky deposits that occur as a result of precipitation inside bottles and are often considered by consumers as a defect. They are in fact tartaric salts formed by tartaric acid, potassium and calcium naturally present in the wine. This deposit does not alter the quality of the wine and can be eliminated by a simple decanting.