The Weingut Michel of Rheinhessen

Weingut Michel
The winery offers 31 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 1439 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Weingut Michel is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 31 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Weingut Michel wines

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

The top white wines of Weingut Michel

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Weingut Michel

How Weingut Michel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of chicken blanquette, carry camaron (gambas) from reunion or bigos (polish sauerkraut with paprika).

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Weingut Michel

In the mouth the white wine of Weingut Michel. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Weingut Michel

  • 2015With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.73/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.58/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.55/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.41/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Grauburgunder
  • Weissburgunder
  • Chardonnay
  • Silvaner
  • Sauvignon Blanc

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 Michel

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Weingut Michel

How Weingut Michel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef luc lake, veal liver in vinegar or duck legs with honey.

The best vintages in the red wines of Weingut Michel

  • 2018With an average score of 3.47/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.35/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.34/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.25/5
  • 2016With an average score of 2.90/5

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

  • Spätburgunder
  • Dornfelder
  • Zweigelt
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Blauer Portugieser

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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 Michel.

Discover the grape variety: Zweigelt

Intraspecific crossing between the saint laurent and the limberger realized in 1922 and in Austria by Fritz Zweigelt (1888/1964) who named it rotburger. Very well known in Austria, it can be found in most Eastern countries, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the United States, etc. In France, it is not very well known and yet this variety has interesting qualities when vinified as a single variety for both red and rosé wines. - Synonyms: rotburger, klosterneuburger, zweigelt blau, blauer-zweigelt in Germany, zweigeltrebe in Austria, Great Britain and the Czech Republic, blauer zwelgetrabe in Hungary, etc. (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here !)