The Winery Weingut Michel of Rheinhessen

Winery Weingut Michel - Alte Reben Grauburgunder
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 Winery 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 Winery Weingut Michel wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Weingut Michel

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

How Winery Weingut Michel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of endives with ham, butter chicken or chicken makkhani (india) or pizza tartiflette.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Weingut Michel

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

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery 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
  • 2017With an average score of 3.41/5

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

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

How Winery Weingut Michel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of celine's version of moussaka (5th meeting), marinated veal skewers with herbs or venison leg in casserole.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Weingut Michel

  • 2018With an average score of 3.47/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.35/5
  • 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 Winery Weingut Michel.

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

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Weingut Michel

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 Michel.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Winery Weingut Michel and wines from the region

Couple arrested in Croatia over €1.6m wine heist

A man and woman carried out the ‘meticulously planned’ theft at the Atrio hotel and restaurant in western Spain back in October. They made off with a bottle of 1806 Château D’Yquem and a large haul of Domaine de la Romanée Conti after breaking into Atrio’s famous cellar. That sparked a nine-month international manhunt. Police in Spain teamed up with Interpol and Europol, plus authorities in Romania and the Netherlands, to track a pair of suspects down. They eventually swooped on a 29-year-old Me ...

Warning signs for the wine auction market

Traditionally the wine auction market took the summer off. Although the season has lengthened recently, summer is usually a fallow period. This year, speculation was rampant – will the market (and the prices) continue their upward spiral? The first fall sales have now been conducted, and if prospects for the wine market remain strong, a few clouds linger on the horizon. Wine auction results in 2021 broke all previous records and set a new benchmark. With sales in major auctions of over £500m, th ...

Walls’ hidden gems: Mas de Libian, Ardèche

Our feet crunched through layers of dry oak leaves as we climbed a pebbly path towards the vineyards behind the farmhouse. Roots go deep here. Not just the tall oaks and squat vines, but families too. I walked the vineyards at Mas de Libian with Hélène Thibon, but it was her father Jean-Pierre that greeted me when I arrived. Hélène’s sister Catherine was out front with Bambi the horse, ploughing the sandier plots. Later, we tasted in the winery with Hélène’s son Aurélien. Three generations of a ...

The word of the wine: Second wine

In the Bordeaux vineyard, the second wine is a lesser-aged wine made from the youngest vines, while the main wine of the château is called the "grand vin".