Deutschland Flashcards
What is the primary white grape of Germany?
Rüssling (Riesling) ⚪️
What is the primary red grape of Germany?
Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) 🔴
What is edelfäule?
Noble Rot
Discovered in Germany around 1775 by harvesters at Schloss Johannisberg in Rheingau that grapes affected by noble Rot made pretty good wines
What is the Müller - Thurgau a cross of
Müller - Thurgau ⚪
- Cross between Riesling x Madeleine Royale
- Discovered in 1882 by Dr Hermann Müller - Thurgau @ the Geisenheim Institute in Germany
Rüssling makes up what percentage of Germany’s Vineyards?
20%
What percentage does Spätburgunder make up in Germany wine production?
10%
In order to be called a certain wine in Germany the varietal must make up what percentage?
85%
What is QbA?
Qualitätswein
- also called Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiate
- one of the German tiers of quality wine
What is Prädikatswein?
The apex of German legal quality pyramid
Kabinett
Spätlese
Auslese
Beerenauslese
Eiswein
Tockenbeerenauslee
What part do these play in German wine?
These are the ripeness levels for German wines, the less ripe is Kabinett and the most ripe is Tockenbeerenauslee
How is the prädikat level determined in German wines?
It is determined by the level of sugars in the grape at harvest, measured by degrees according to the Öchsle scale
What ripeness level in the German system is:
- made from normal harvested grapes
- typically light bodied
- low in alcohol
- usually dry or off dry
- Germans usually drink them as casual dinner wines
Kabinett
What ripeness level in the German system is:
- part of word means “late”
- are grapes harvested later than grapes for Kabinett
- Creates wines with greater fruit intensity and slightly fuller body
- maybe dry or off dry
- usually doesn’t taste sweet due to high acidity
Spätlese
What ripeness level in the German system is:
- part of word means “select”
- made from very ripe grapes harvested from select bunches
- generally only made in during the best vintage years
- usually very expensive
- often very sweet
- usually a wine dranked on Sunday afternoons with hard cheese
Austlese
What ripeness level in the German system is:
- part of word mean “berry”
- picked from a selected harvest
- very rare and costly wines
- made from ripe grapes that were hand picked
- grapes have been affected by noble Rot (botrytis cinerea) giving them a deep honey richness
Beerenauslese
What ripeness level in the German system is:
- part of word means “Dry berry”
- comes from a selected harvest
- these are the richest, sweetest, rarest and most expensive of all the German wines
- only released in exceptional vintage years
- made from grapes that have shriveled to raisins by botrytis
- due to their enormous amount of sugar these grapes have a hard time fermenting
Truckenbeerenauslese
What ripeness level in the German system is:
- means ice wine
- made from very ripe frozen grapes that have been hand picked
- it is miraculously high in both sweetness and acidity
- effected by botrytis before grapes become frozen
Eiswein
What is the VDP?
The Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter
- Association of German Quality Wine
- the national German association of producers committee to top quality wines
Is Chaptelization legal in the QbA
Yes
Charta wines were created for what region and what wine type?
Rheingau Riesling
- Dry Style
How are Charta wines labeled?
3 roman arches from the balcony of Graue Haus hotel in Winkel
What does einzellagen mean?
German word for vineyard
What is Erste Lage
The German term in the VDP for Premier Cru
what is the symbol used to symbolized wines that are Considered Grosses Lage
A “1” followed by a cluster of grapes