The Winery Zelt of Pfalz

Winery Zelt
The winery offers 38 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 1362 of the estates of Pfalz.
It is located in Pfalz

The Winery Zelt is one of the best wineries to follow in Pfalz.. It offers 38 wines for sale in of Pfalz to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Zelt wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Zelt

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Zelt

How Winery Zelt wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of summer orecchiette, crab matoutou or chicken with rice and curry cream.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Zelt

On the nose the white wine of Winery Zelt. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, tree fruit or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Zelt. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Zelt

  • 2016With an average score of 3.93/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.77/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.76/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Weissburgunder
  • Chardonnay
  • Grauburgunder
  • Pinot Noir
  • Gelber Muskateller

Discovering the wine region of Pfalz

Pfalz is a key wine producing region in western Germany, located between the Rhein/Rhine river and the low-lying Haardt mountain range (a natural continuation of the Alsatian Vosges). It covers a rectangle of land 45 miles (75km) Long and 15 miles (25km) wide. To the NorthLiesRheinhessen; to the South, the French border and Alsace. In terms of both quality and quantity, Pfalz is one of Germany's most important regions, and one which shows great promise for the future.

An increasing proportion of Germany's finest Riesling and Pinot Noir (Spätburgunder) come from Pfalz Vineyards, and the region generates more everyday Landwein and Deutscher Wein than any other region by far (see German Wine Label Information). With roughly 23,500 hectares (58,000 acres) of land planted to grapevines, Pfalz is the second-largest of Germany's 13 Anbaugebeite wine regions. Only its northern neighbor Rheinhessen has more vines. The region is home to some 10,000 vine growers, half of whom work as contractors, and is so densely planted that vines outnumber inhabitants 600 to one.

Pfalz's Vineyards produce both white wines (60 percent) and red (40 percent). The whites have long been the most successful and, as is standard almost everywhere in the Rheinland, Riesling dominates the local vineyards and wines. In 2013 the region had 14,000 acres (5,600 ha) of Riesling vines, accounting for roughly a quarter of its entire vineyard area. Riesling is easily Germany's most successful grape variety, from the perspectives of both quality and quantity.

The top red wines of Winery Zelt

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Zelt

How Winery Zelt wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of seven o'clock leg of lamb, veal shank in a pot au feu with star anise or venison leg marinated in white wine and grand marnier.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Zelt

On the nose the red wine of Winery Zelt. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, spices or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Zelt. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Zelt

  • 2016With an average score of 3.96/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Spätburgunder
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • St. Laurent
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Pinot Noir Précoce

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

The top pink wines of Winery Zelt

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Zelt

How Winery Zelt wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of sweet and sour turkish dumpling soup (eksili köfte), mathieu's lamb tagine or ardéchoise fly.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Zelt.

  • Merlot
  • Pinot Noir
  • St. Laurent
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc

The word of the wine: Black Grenache

Grenache is a black grape variety that originated in Spain and is one of the great quality varieties of southern France. Sometimes vinified on its own, it is most often blended with one or more other Rhone or southern grape varieties with complementary qualities such as Syrah, Mourvèdre, Carignan or Cinsault. Its wines are warm, with aromas of red fruits (cherry) and spices; they oxidize with time. Vinified alone or in very large proportions, Grenache Noir also makes great natural sweet wines in Roussillon (Rivesaltes, Banyuls, Maury) and in the Rhône Valley (Rasteau).

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Winery Zelt and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Decanter World Wine Awards winners available at Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer is no stranger to achieving top scores at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), and to celebrate its results the leading retailer has selected its favourite award-winning wines from this year’s awards, for customers to purchase exclusively on marksandspencer.com. Customers can choose from a carefully selected mix of six delicious winter-warming reds; an irresistible mix of crisp, refreshing, complex white wines from the Old and New World; a mix of both red and white wi ...

Decanter World Wine Awards winners available at Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer is no stranger to achieving top scores at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), and to celebrate its results the leading retailer has selected its favourite award-winning wines from this year’s awards, for customers to purchase exclusively on marksandspencer.com. Customers can choose from a carefully selected mix of six delicious winter-warming reds; an irresistible mix of crisp, refreshing, complex white wines from the Old and New World; a mix of both red and white wi ...

The word of the wine: Black Grenache

Grenache is a black grape variety that originated in Spain and is one of the great quality varieties of southern France. Sometimes vinified on its own, it is most often blended with one or more other Rhone or southern grape varieties with complementary qualities such as Syrah, Mourvèdre, Carignan or Cinsault. Its wines are warm, with aromas of red fruits (cherry) and spices; they oxidize with time. Vinified alone or in very large proportions, Grenache Noir also makes great natural sweet wines in Roussillon (Rivesaltes, Banyuls, Maury) and in the Rhône Valley (Rasteau).