Basic Germany

Question 1

Often located near rivers, such as the ____, ___, ___, ___, and ___, the ___- and _____-facing vineyards receive direct and reflected warmth of the sun and provide the soil stress that great wines require

Answer 1

Mosel, Rhine, Main, Nahe, and Elbe, the south- and southwest-facing

Question 2

Many of Germany’s most prominent producers belong to the VDP: R___t W___l, R____f von Kesselstatt, Dr. ___, E__n M___r, Joh. Jos. ___, D_____, K___, Bürklin-___, Toni J__

Answer 2

: Robert Weil, Reichsgraff von Kesselstatt, Dr. Loosen, Egon Müller, Joh. Jos. Prüm, Dönnhoff, Keller, Bürklin-Wolf, Toni Jost

Question 3

So with the 1971 wine law, Germany adopted the EEC model, creating the two categories of _____ (literally, “quality wine from a growing region”) and ___ (“table wine”). However, given Germany’s special circumstances, the 1971 law added a third tier, ____ (QmP)

Answer 3

Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiet

Qualitätswein mit Prädikat (QmP),

Question 4

_____, a wine whose ____ century origins suggest a connection to the Liebfrauenkirche Church at Worms in Rheinhessen, became the face of German wine to the outside world—in the ____, over ___% of all German vinous exports had itprinted on the label

Answer 4

Liebfraumilch, 18th century

1980s, over 60%

Question 5

The _____ of Burgundy founded the famous_____h monastery in the Rheingau in ____, where they amassed the largest vineyard holdings in Europe by the end of the Middle Ages, with over ___ acres of vines.

Answer 5

Cistercians of Burgundy

Kloster Eberbach monastery

1136

700 acres of vines.

Question 6

Emperor ____ overturned Domitian’s 92 CE ban on new vineyard plantings, and viticulture followed the _____ into provinces north of the Alps. By the _____ century winemaking was definitively established along the steep slopes of the Mosel River.

Answer 6

Emperor Probu

Romans

fourth century

Question 7

30,000 einzellagen were condensed in bureaucratic fashion into ___registered vineyards, each with a minimum size of __ hectares

Answer 7

2,600

five hectares

Question 8

Steinberg is a ___ hectares (___ acres) wall-enclosed vineyard near _____ in the Rheingau.[1][2] It is the largest wall-enclosed vineyard in Germany.

Answer 8

Steinberg is a 32.4 hectares (80 acres)

Hattenheim

Question 9

The original VDP was stablishg in 1910. what in the world was happening around those times

Answer 9

Question 10

Prädikat Level Minimum Öchsle Range

Kabinett 70-

Spätlese

Auslese

Beerenauslese

Trockenbeerenauslese___-154

Eiswein110-128°

Answer 10

Kabinett 70-85°

Spätlese 80-95°

Auslese 88-105°

Beerenauslese 110-128°

Eiswein110-128°

Trockenbeerenauslese 150-154°

Question 11

____, a crossing of Helfensteiner and Heroldrebe that was developed in ____, is the most prominent German red crossing and is currently the country’s second most planted red grape.

Answer 11

Dornfelder,

1956

Question 13

The “discovery” of Spätlese harvesting dates to ___, when harvesters at Schloss Johannisberg in the Rheingau found that, despite their appearance, grapes afflicted with _____ (noble rot) made pretty good wine. The estate followed with the introduction of the Auslese category in ____ and the first Eiswein in _____.

Answer 13

1775,

edelfäule (noble rot)

Auslese category in 1787

Eiswein in 1858.

Question 14

Each A.P. number consists of five sets of digits. The digits, in order, indicate the following: (1) the location of the ____, (2) the ___ in which the wine was produced, (3) the ____, (4) the unique _____, and (5) the ___ in which the wine was tested,

Answer 14

(1) the location of the examination board, (2) the village in which the wine was produced, (3) the producer, (4) the unique number of the bottling, and (5) the year in which the wine was tested, typically one calendar year after the vintage.

Question 15

There are only a few exceptions to this mandated minimum size today, including the ____ vineyard in Bernkastel—whose three proprietors successfully petitioned to have the expanded boundaries shrunk to three hectares in ____—the ___ and ____ vineyards in ____, and the Schloss Vollrads ortsteil vineyard in Rheingau.

Answer 15

Doctor vineyard in Bernkastel—

1984

Kirchenstück and Freundstück vineyards in Forst

Question 16

Spätburgunder comprises over one-tenth of Germany’s total vineyard acreage, followed in decreasing order by the red grapes ____, _____, ____, and ____ (Pinot Meunier).

Answer 16

Dornfelder, Blauer Portugieser, Trollinger, and Schwarzriesling (Pinot Meunier).

Question 17

Spatlese invented in 1775, what is happening in the US during this time?

Answer 17

The American Revolution begins this year, with the first military engagement being the April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere’s now-epic ride. The Second Continental Congress takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief

Question 18

VDP Classification (2012 forward) and corresponding maximum yields

Grosse Lage: “Grand Cru” Wines (max. __ hl/ha)

Erste Lage: “Premier Cru” Wines (max. __ hl/ha)

Ortswein: Village Wines (max. __ hl/ha)

Gutswein: Regional Wines (max. __ hl/ha)

Answer 18

Grosse Lage: “Grand Cru” Wines (max. 50 hl/ha)

Erste Lage: “Premier Cru” Wines (max. 60 hl/ha)

Ortswein: Village Wines (max. 75 hl/ha)

Gutswein: Regional Wines (max. 75 hl/ha)

Question 19

Producers of sweet wines may make a range of prädikat levels from a Grosse Lage site, but only one dry wine may be produced in each of the top vineyards. True or False

Answer 19

TRUEEEE

Question 20

The first Ice Wine was invented in what year?

What was happening around the world?

Answer 20

1858

The 1850s was a decade that ran from January 1, 1850, to December 31, 1859. The 1850s was a very turbulent decade, as wars such as the Crimean War, shifted and shook European politics, as well as the expansion of colonization towards the Far East, which also sparked conflicts like the Second Opium War. At the mean time, The United States saw its peak on mass migration to the American West, that particularly made the nation experience an economic boom, as well as a rapidly increasing population.

Question 21

____, an early 20th-century crossing of Riesling and Bukettrebe, developed in the Rheinhessen, is one of the few to show real quality potential

Answer 21

Scheurebe,

Question 22

Prior to the ___ vintage, Erste Lage wines represented the top tier of the VDP quality pyramid. Erste Lage translates to “first site,” and usage of the term was reserved by the VDP for Germany’s finest single vineyard sites. All wines at this level of quality carry a specialized logo—a “1” followed by a cluster of grapes

Answer 22

2012

Question 23

In the Pfalz, for instance, this category will exist and some former top sites, like Paradiesgarten and ____ in Deidesheim, will be recast as Premier Cru.

Answer 23

Kalkofen

Question 24

The Geisenheim Wine Institute in the Rheingau, founded in ____, developed a number of hardier grape crossings that would ripen in greater abundance across a variety of sites. ____, created at Geisenheim in ___, displaced Silvaner in the late ____ to become Germany’s most planted grape.

Answer 24

1872,

Müller-Thurgau, created at Geisenheim in 1882,

1960s

Question 25

The 1971 law permitted the addition of Süssreserve (“______) for wines of any category, at up to __% of the total volume of the wine.

Answer 25

(“sweet reserve,” or sterilized fresh grape must)

15% of the total volume of the wine.

Question 26

_____ (German: Kloster Eberbach) is a former _____monastery near Eltville am Rhein in the Rheingau, Germany.

Answer 26

Eberbach Abbey

Cistercian monastery

Question 27

. Grosses Gewächs wines are legally considered trocken and may not contain more than ___ g/l of residual sugar. In the Rheingau, Grosses Gewächs wines frequently carry the alternative label of ___, a trademarked term established by Charta.

Answer 27

9 g/l of residual sugar.

Erstes Gewächs

Question 28

The Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter, or VDP, Founded in _____ as the Verband Deutscher Naturweinversteigerer, the organization originally strove to promote unchaptalized ___ wines, principally through wine auctions.

Answer 28

1910

natur

Question 29

DNA testing has recast Müller-Thurgau as ____ X____

Answer 29

Riesling x Madeleine Royale.

Question 30

In addition to Riesling and Müller-Thurgau, the white grapes ____, _____ (Pinot Gris), _____ (Pinot Blanc), ___ and ____ each account for at least __% of total plantings.

Answer 30

Silvaner, Grauburgunder (Pinot Gris), Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc), Kerner and Bacchus each account for at least 2% of total plantings.

Question 31

By the 1960s, there were over ______ different vineyard sites throughout West Germany—a major impetus for the vineyard reorganization and registration mandated by the German Wine Law of ___.

Answer 31

30,000

1971

Question 32

Auslese was invented __ years after Spatlese.

5 years later, what happens in the US?

Answer 32

12

Question 33

Grosses Gewächs white wines may not be released before ______ of the year following the harvest; red wines receive an additional year of aging. Erste Lage wines labeled by prädikat may be released as soon as ___ of the year following the harvest.

Answer 33

Sept 1

May 1

Question 34

Charlemagne, the legendary beard-stained lover of wine—whose newly minted Carolingian calendar replaced the Roman October with Windume-Manoth, “the _______”—introduced vine cultivation east of the Rhine River in the late ____ century

Answer 34

Month of the vintage

8th Cent

Question 35

Many producers_____,____,______,_____

can trace their estates back hundreds of years.

Records dating to _____ establish the first documentation of rüssling vines, whereas Pinot Noir arrived in Germany by the ___ century, presumably on the backs of monks from Burgundy.

Answer 35

Schloss Johannisberg, Reichsgraff von Kesselstatt, Reinhold Haart, Dr. Bürklin-Wolf

1402

14th century

Question 36

In ___, a separate organization called ___ was formed to advance the classic, dry style of Rheingau Riesling. ____ wines, distinguished by an icon of three Roman arches—styled from the balcony of ____, in Winkel

Answer 36

In 1984, a separate organization called Charta

Graue Haus, in Winkel