The Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn of Saale-Unstrut

Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn
The winery offers 36 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 30 of the estates of Saale-Unstrut.
It is located in Saale-Unstrut

The Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn is one of the world's great estates. It offers 36 wines for sale in of Saale-Unstrut to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn

How Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of lamb biryani, soft and inexpensive pasta gratin or shepherd's pie and leek fondue.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn

  • 2016With an average score of 4.10/5

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

  • Acolon
  • Zweigelt
  • Regent

Discovering the wine region of Saale-Unstrut

Saale-Unstrut is the northernmost of Germany's 13 wine-growing regions. At 51 degrees northern latitude, it is one of the most northerly wine regions in the world. It takes its name from the two rivers on the banks of which the Vines of the region grow, and is composed of three non-contiguous Parts located mainly in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, with around 650 hectares (1600 acres) of Vineyards, often terraced, on South and south-west-facing slopes along the narrow river valleys. A smaller area of 20 hectares (50 acres) is located in the state of Thüringen and a block of just 7 hectares (17 acres) in Brandenburg.

Two towns within the region, Freyburg and Karsdorf, each have one vineyard which has been accorded Grosse Lage status. Wine has been grown here for more than 1000 years. The Cistercian monks founded the Pforta Abbey in approximately 1100 AD and established the Pfortenser Köppelberg vineyard, which still exists today. The wine industry in this part of Germany had a Hard time during the post-war communist era, but since reunification quality has improved, and the area under vine has expanded slightly.

Saale-Unstrut enjoys plenty of sunshine and has one of the lowest rainfalls of any German wine-growing region. Soils are mainly sedimentary with shell, limestone and sandstone predominating. Despite these favorable conditions, the region's northern Climate is uncompromising, and even when yields are kept low, Spätlese or Auslese wines can only be produced during the warmest of years. Müller-Thurgau is the most widely planted variety in the Saale-Unstrut region, accounting for around 20 percent of the total vineyard area.

The top white wines of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn

How Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of coconut from paimpol, quick coconut milk chicken or gizzards in sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn

On the nose the white wine of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn

  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Grauburgunder
  • Silvaner
  • Weissburgunder
  • Kerner
  • Müller-Thurgau
  • Bacchus

Discover the grape variety: Kerner

Intraspecific crossing between frankenthal and riesling obtained in Germany in 1929 by August Karl Herold (1902/1973). In 1951 and by crossing it with the sylvaner, we obtained the juwel. It should be noted that there is a mutation of Kerner, discovered in 1974 and bearing the name of kernling, with grapes of pink-grey to red-grey colour at full maturity. Kerner can be found in Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan... practically unknown in France except in a few Moselle vineyards.

The top sweet wines of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn

How Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of pork chops with mustard, pasta with shrimp or chicken with olives in a couscousier.

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

  • Riesling

The word of the wine: Botrytis

Fungus that causes grape rot.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn

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

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Thüringer Weingut Zahn.

  • Weissburgunder

Discover the grape variety: Weissburgunder

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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: Botrytis

Fungus that causes grape rot.

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