Weingut Fritz Windisch "Dornfelder" Wormser Liebfrauenmorgen, Rheinhessen, Germany 2023

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THE WINE: 100% Dornfelder. On the grand stage of wine, Dornfelder is a relative newcomer. It’s a great sweet red grape variety, magenta in color with soft tannins and excellent structure. This Windisch Dornfelder has the quality from a specific region (QbA) which guarantees the best red wine in the German wine world. A prolific, relatively early ripener, it produces wine far deeper in colour than other German red wines. In fact, it was initially bred (1955, in Württemberg) to serve as a blending wine to improve the colour of pale reds. Today it is prized on its own as a fragrant, full-bodied, complex wine with a fairly tannic acidity. From 124 ha in 1979, the vineyard area has expanded to 7,649 ha in 2017, moving Dornfelder to second place, after Spätburgunder (11,767 ha in 2017), among red wine grapes grown in Germany. In the Pfalz and Rheinhessen most of Germany's Dornfelder grapes are cultivated.

A very tasty, powerful wine of pronounced aroma and rich dark red color. It has a delicious flavor of cherries, red berries and plums with decent, smooth tannins. Its sweetness is pleasant and harmonic, which makes it enjoyable for lovers of not too dry wines.

THE PRODUCER: As far back as 1780, the Windisch family has lived in the village of Mommenheim near Nierstein and Mainz. Fritz Windisch was the first to start estate-bottling wine in the 1920s. Now his son Guenter carries on the family tradition.

As well as producing wines using the Riesling grape, the Windisch vineyards also produce fine wines using: Dornfelder, Scheurebe, Mueller-Thurgau, Silvaner, Grauer-Burgunder, Weisser-Burgunder, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Portugieser and Regent. Due to their individual sites, the Windisch vineyards are all different. But the wines, produced from grapes which are fermented in Oak casks and in stainless steel tanks, all have something common: They all have a racy, fruity character, and represent the typical character of wines from this growing region. Average age of vines we have is about 20 years. Their wine capacity is approx. 2 million litres kept in the wine cellar and warehouse. The permanent quality control and the maintenance of a stable temperature guarantee the excellent quality of the Windisch-wines.