Rheinhessen is the largest of 13 German wine regions (Weinanbaugebiete) for quality wines with 26,758 hectares under cultivation in 2018. Named for the traditional region of Rhenish Hesse, it lies on the left bank of the Rhine between Worms and Bingen in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Despite its historic name it is currently no longer part of the federal-state of Hesse, this being the case since the end of World War II. There have been several unsuccessful attempts to legally reunite the former wine growing districts of Mainz on the Hessian side during the post-war area. Rheinhessen produces mostly white wine from a variety of grapes, particularly Riesling, Müller-Thurgau and Silvaner, and is best known as the home of Liebfraumilch, although some previously underrated Rieslings are also made, increasingly in a powerful dry style.
From the Wikipedia article Rheinhessen (wine region), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rheinhessen is a wine region, Germany. We track 736 of its wines in stock at 102 shops, from 77 wine houses, from € 6.15; mostly white, red.
- Country
- Germany
- In our wines
- Riesling, Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris
- Classifications
- Grosses Gewächs 80 · Erste Lage 5 · Trockenbeerenauslese 8 · Eiswein 1 · Beerenauslese 7 · Auslese 25 · Spätlese 11 · Kabinett 28
- Styles
- White 520 · Red 127 · Sparkling 27 · Rosé 25 · Dessert 16 · Orange 16
- Prices
- from € 6.15 · median € 23.40 / 75 cl
Vintages
per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote| Vintage | Wines | From | Median / 75 cl | Critics' score | Growing season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | – | – | – | hotdryso far +2.7 °C · 1,514 GDD · 59 % rain |
| 2025 | 75 | € 6.80 | € 18.06 | 91.5 (2 wines) | hotwet harvest +1.2 °C · 1,247 GDD · 104 % rain |
| 2024 | 134 | € 8.30 | € 21.27 | 93.6 (7 wines) | hotwet +1.0 °C · 1,209 GDD · 134 % rain |
| 2023 | 96 | € 9.50 | € 23.98 | 93.3 (6 wines) | hot +1.4 °C · 1,350 GDD · 109 % rain |
| 2022 | 93 | € 6.70 | € 26.76 | 94.3 (4 wines) | hotwet harvest +2.0 °C · 1,481 GDD · 83 % rain |
| 2021 | 67 | € 7.50 | € 36.12 | 91.0 (3 wines) | cool −0.6 °C · 981 GDD · 109 % rain |
| 2020 | 30 | € 9.20 | € 43.49 | 92.0 (2 wines) | hot +1.0 °C · 1,193 GDD · 80 % rain |
| 2019 | 18 | € 8.20 | € 42.08 | 94.0 (2 wines) | hot +1.0 °C · 1,216 GDD · 98 % rain |
| 2018 | 12 | € 19.90 | € 53.81 | – | hotdry +2.5 °C · 1,514 GDD · 60 % rain |
| 2017 | 7 | € 20.74 | € 125.00 | 95.0 (1 wine) | average +0.4 °C · 1,131 GDD · 113 % rain |
| 2016 | 10 | € 34.66 | € 169.95 | – | average ±0.0 °C · 1,113 GDD · 112 % rain |
| 2015 | 10 | € 24.37 | € 285.00 | – | average +0.2 °C · 1,118 GDD · 72 % rain |
| 2014 | 6 | € 55.00 | € 162.50 | 95.0 (1 wine) | warm +0.5 °C · 1,094 GDD · 123 % rain |
| 2013 | 6 | € 96.90 | € 228.80 | – | average −0.4 °C · 959 GDD · 126 % rain |
| 2012 | 3 | € 22.08 | € 290.00 | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,012 GDD · 114 % rain |
| 2011 | 9 | € 53.39 | € 280.00 | – | average +0.4 °C · 1,082 GDD · 83 % rain |
| 2010 | 1 | € 2,150.00 | € 2,150.00 | – | cool −0.9 °C · 910 GDD · 112 % rain |
| 2009 | 2 | € 245.00 | € 285.00 | – | average +0.3 °C · 1,106 GDD · 100 % rain |
| 2008 | 2 | € 955.00 | € 1,463.75 | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,023 GDD · 100 % rain |
| 2007 | 3 | € 294.37 | € 588.74 | – | average −0.2 °C · 988 GDD · 114 % rain |
| 2006 | 3 | € 37.33 | € 380.00 | – | hot +1.0 °C · 1,252 GDD · 107 % rain |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | average +0.4 °C · 1,086 GDD · 92 % rain |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 938 GDD · 110 % rain |
| 2003 | 1 | € 37.33 | € 37.33 | – | warm +0.7 °C · 1,318 GDD · 84 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,000 GDD · 110 % rain |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest −0.3 °C · 1,018 GDD · 94 % rain |
| 2000 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 996 GDD · 105 % rain |
| 1999 | 1 | € 284.90 | € 569.80 | – | average +0.1 °C · 1,081 GDD · 94 % rain |
| 1998 | – | – | – | – | coolwetwet harvest −0.7 °C · 940 GDD · 135 % rain |
| 1997 | 1 | € 40.01 | € 40.01 | – | cooldry harvest −0.6 °C · 1,025 GDD · 85 % rain |
| 1996 | 1 | € 37.47 | € 37.47 | – | cold −1.4 °C · 788 GDD · 85 % rain |
| 1995 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 1,009 GDD · 102 % rain |
| 1994 | 1 | € 37.47 | € 37.47 | – | average −0.2 °C · 1,082 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 1993 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.8 °C · 907 GDD · 118 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,080 GDD · 109 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | cooldry −0.8 °C · 985 GDD · 65 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 989 GDD · 86 % rain |
| 1989 | 1 | € 65.00 | € 65.00 | – | average −0.2 °C · 1,036 GDD · 102 % rain |
| 1988 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.5 °C · 949 GDD · 91 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.4 °C · 746 GDD · 129 % rain |
| 1986 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.1 °C · 874 GDD · 125 % rain |
| 1985 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.2 °C · 841 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 1984 | – | – | – | – | coldwetwet harvest −2.0 °C · 681 GDD · 145 % rain |
| 1983 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 974 GDD · 129 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 1,090 GDD · 111 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Rheinhessen's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the region. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.
Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.
Klaus Peter Keller 53 · Weingut Wittmann 48 · Weingut Geils 37 · Gunderloch 30 · Weingut Thörle 29 · Wagner Stempel 21 · K.F. Groebe 20 · Dreissigacker 17 · Katla Wines 15 · Marto Wines 15 · Weingut Bastian Beny 15 · Weingut Familie Hofmann 13 · Weingut Eckehart Gröhl 12 · AdamsWein 12 · Weingut St. Antony 11 · Weingut Gustavshof 11
Westhofen 39 · Nierstein 35 · Dalsheim 7 · Nackenheim 5 · Bingen 3 · Siefersheim 3