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What parallel runs through Rheingau?

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50 N

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What is the expected abv range for traditional German Kabinett?

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7-9%

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Where is the Kloster Eberbach? Village and Anbaugebiet? Famous vineyard here?

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Rheingau

HaTTENHEIM - Steinberg

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Where is the Kloster Eberbach? Village and Anbaugebiet? Famous vineyard here? What is headquartered here?

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Rheingau

Near Eltville am Rhein, in the Rheingau

Steinberg

Hessische Staatsweingüter

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Specialty wine bottle of Franken?

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Bocksbeutel

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Specialty wine bottle of Franken?

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Bocksbeutel

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What does Gustabfüllung mean?

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Estate-bottled

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What does Feinherb mean?

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A wine that is slightly off-dry

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Which German anbaugebiete is closest to the Czech border?

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Sachsen

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The Taunus Mountains are a prominent feature in which Anbaugebiete?

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Rheingau

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Which Anbaugebiet of Germany typically produces the fullest body Riesling out of the main ones?

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Pfalz

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VDP producers never chaptalize their wines. True or False?

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False

It’s frowned upon though

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What is the German synonym for Noble Rot?

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Edelfäule

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What is the most likely abv for a finished TBA wine?

6%
8%
10%
12%

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6%

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Kabinett wines may not be chaptalized in Germany. True or False?

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True

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What is the min alcohol for each German Pradikat?

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Kabinett/Spatlese/Auslese: min 7%

Beerenauslese/Eiswein/TBA: min 5.5%

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What are the min abv and ochsle values for Erstes Gewächs wines? (Riesling and Spätburgunder) What Anbaugebiet are these wines produced in?

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Riesling: min 12% and min 85 Ochsle

Spätburgunder: min 13% and min 90 Ochsle

Rheingau only

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What does Erstes Gewächs mean? Max yield? Max RS for the two approved varietals?

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Erstes Gewächs is a legal term for German wine from the Rheingau and indicates a single vineyard harvested at max yields of 50hl/ha and aged prior to release.

Max 50hl/ha yields

max 9g/L for Riesling
max 6g/L for Spätburgunder

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What is the max temp for harvesting German Eiswein vs Canadian Icewine?

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German Eiswein:
max -7C

Canadian Icewine: max -8C

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What are the Ochsle levels for each German Pradikat?

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Kabinett: 70-85
Spatlese: 76-95
Auslese: 83-105
Beerenauslese/Eiswein: 110-128
TBA: 150-154
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What is the min/max must weight in Ochsle for German Qualitatswein? Min abv?

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51-72

7 percent abv

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What do the following terms mean? Put them in order from driest to sweetest and list their sugar values.

Halbtrocken
Lieblich
Trocken
Süss

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Trocken (dry):
max 4g/L
or up to 9 g/L if TA is only 2g/L less

Halbtrocken (off-dry):
max 12g/L
or up to 18g/L if the TA is no more than 10g/L in difference

Lieblich (medium sweet):
max :
12g/L-45g/L
More often called Feinherb is the word Lieblich is often falsely associated with the low quality Liebfraumilch.

Süss (sweet):
more than 45g/L

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What Anbaugebiet permits the use of Lemburger? What is Limberger? Which permits Grauburgunder?

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Württemberg

Limberger is the German synonym for Blaufrankisch

Baden permits Grauburgunder

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Which Anbaugebiet are for Riesling only?

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Mosel
Nahe
Mittelrhein

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What Anbaugiebet permits the use of Frühburgunder?
Ahr
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What is Frühburgunder called in the Ahr?
Pinot Noir Precocé
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Which two Anbaugebiet permit Sylvaner?
Franken | Saale-Unstrut
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What does Erste Lage mit Prädikat indicate?
Indicates top wine with residual sugar
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What is the VDP hierarchy from top to bottom?
VDP Grosse Lage (Grand Cru) VDP Erste Lage (1er Cru) VDP Ortswein (Village) VDP Gutswein (Regional)
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What do the following terms indicate: Flaschengarung Alleinbesitz Anreicherung Gustabfullung
Flaschengarung: sparkling wine Alleinbesitz: sole-ownership, equivalent to monopole Anreicherung: enrichment Gustabfullung: estate-bottled
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What are the terms for estate-bottled and bottled by producer in Germany respectively?
Gustabfüllung (estate-bottled) Erzeugerabfüllung (bottled by producer) less strict than estate-bottled indicating that only the grapes have been processed. Can be used by co ops
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What do the following pertain to? geschütze geographische Angabe (ggA) geschütze Ursprungsbezeichnung (gU)
geschütze geographische Angabe (ggA): PGI geschütze Ursprungsbezeichnung (gU): PDO
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What EU designation do the following apply to? gU and ggA
gU (PDO) ggA (PGI)
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Name the Anbaugebiete(s) for the following rivers: Mosel Main Rhine Elbe
Mosel (Mosel) Main (Eastern Rheingau and Franken) Rhine (Mittelrhein, Rheingau, Rheinhessen) Elbe (Sachsen)
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Muller-Thurgau is a crossing between what grapes?
Riesling x Madaleine Royale
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What is the second most planted red grape in Germany?
Dornfelder
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What is the top vineyard in Piesport?
Goldtröpfchen
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What is the top vineyard in Piesport? Three producers of it?
Goldtröpfchen Reinhold Haart St Urbans-Hof Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt
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Top vineyards of Erden?
Prälat | Treppchen
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Where is Bachrach? Top vineyard there?
Mittelrhein Engelstein Mandelstein Feurlay Bopparder Hamm
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VDP term for superior dry wines?
Grosses Gewächs (GG)
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Which German Anbaugebiet mandates the highest must weights?
Baden
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What is the German term for Traditional method sparkling wine?
Klassische Flaschengärung
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Top vineyard for Spätburgunder in the Rheingau? Village?
Hollenberg
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What is the German name for semi-sparkling wine? Pressure range? Where does this pressure come from? Highest quality level?
Perlwein 1-2.5atm of pressure produced by fermentation and/or by carbonation. Qualitätswein is the highest quality level
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What is Qulitatsschaumwein? Another name for this?
Sparkling wine sourced from a specific region, noted on the label. Appellation, vintage, and variety may be listed if at least 85% of each are in the bottle. Sekt is the more common name for this.
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Where is Wurzburg?
Franken
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Where is Schlossbockelheim?
Nahe | Felsenberg / Kupfergrub
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What are the synonyms for Blaufrankisch and Schiava in Germany?
Blaufranksich is Lemberger Schiava is Trollinger
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What is the most planted grape variety in Wurttemberg?
Trollinger (Schiava)
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What is the most planted grape variety in Wurttemberg?
Trollinger (Schiava)
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What is the German term for "Traditional Method"?
Klassische Flaschengärung
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Elbing is a main white grape of which Anbaugebiet? Which Bereich? Why?
Mosel in the Obermosel Bereich, upstream from Trier. Threat of frost is too great here, so the hardy grape Elbing does well here.
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Helfensteinr x Heroldrebe=?
Dornfelder
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Which Anbaugebiete have a vineyard named "Kirchenstück"?
Pfalz Rheingau Rheinhessen
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Sandstone, limestone, and Keuper are all major soil types in which Anbaugebiet?
Franken
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Which city are you most likely to encounter a glass of Schillerwein?
Heibronn
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What are the 3 rosé specialties of Germany?
Schillerwein | Weissherbst
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What pre fermentation technique is common for top modern dry Riesling?
Pre fermentation skin contact
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Which vintage of the following was best for Botrytis? 2010 2011 2012 2013
2010
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Max yields for GG?
max 50hl/ha
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Major lake where the north shore is planted to Baden vines?
Lake Constance (Bodensee)
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Where is Goldriesling almost exclusively grown?
Sachsen
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Wine growing district of Gutedel (Chasselas) in Germany?
Markgräferland (Baden) southernmost district of Baden
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What are the Bereich of Mosel from upstream to downstream?
``` Moseltor Obermosel Saar Ruwertal Bernkastel (Mittelmosel) Burg Cochem (Terrassenmosel) ```
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German name for Lake Constance?
Bodensee
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Where does George Breuer make wine?
Rüdesheim (Rheingau)
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Where does Reichsrat von Buhl make wine?
Deidesheim (Pfalz)
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Where does Heymann-Löwenstein make wine? What is significant about this producer?
Winningen in the Burg Cochem of the Mosel Applying for the first single vineyard PDOs for three separate parcels within Uhlen: Lay, Roth Lay, Laubach
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Where does Philip WIttman make wine?
Westhofen (Rheinhessen)
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Where does Emrich-Schönleber make wine?
Monzingen (Nahe)
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What is the breech of Nahe?
Nahetal
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Where are vineyards located along the Neckar River?
Württemberg
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What fermentation technique common for Pinot Noir in Burgundy is rare in Ahr?
whole-cluster fermentation
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Where is Koblenz?
Mittelrhein
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Where is Dresden?
Sachsen
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Where is Stuttgart?
Württemberg
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Where is Mainz?
Rheinhessen
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What is Baden's most celebrated district for Spätburgunder? What is significant about it?
Kaiserstuhl Warmest wine growing district in Germany
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Where does Rebolz make wine?
Pfalz
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What are the two bereiche of Pfalz?
Mittelhaardt-Deutscher Weinstrasse Südliche Weinstrasse
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What does Alter Satz indicate?
Vineyard of co planted varieties.
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Rudesheimer Rosengarten is an Alleinbesitz of who?
Leitz
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Maximin Grünhaus makes wine where? What are his three alleinbesitz vineyards?
Makes wine in Ruwer Gruneberg is the main vineyard: 3 parcels make it up Abstberg Bruderberg Herrenberg
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What is the alleinbesitz of Kloster Eberbach? Town?
Steinberg Hattenheim
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What is the name of Reichsgraff von Kesselstatt's alleinbesitz?
Josephshofer Graach an der Mosel
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Where is Dernauer Pfarrwingert? Name the town and producer that made it famous.
Dernau (Ahr) Meyer-Näkel
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What is the top vineyard of Altenahr? Who is the best producer?
Altenahrer Eck (Ahr) Deutzerhof
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Where does Meyer-Näkel make wine? Top vineyard there? Grape?
Dernau (Ahr) Pfarrwingert Spätburgunder
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Where does Deutzerhof make wine? Top vineyard?
Altenahr (Ahr) Altenfahrer Eck Spätburgunder
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Where does Jean Stodden make wine? Top vineyard and grape?
Rech Herrenberg Recher Herrenberg Spätburgunder
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What is the Mayschosser Winzerverein and where is it located?
Germany's first growers cooperative. Located in the Ahr
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What are the two Bereiche of the Ahr?
Mittelahr (Middle Ahr): between Altenahr and Walporzheim Unterahr (Lower Ahr): from Ahrweielr to Heimersheim
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What are the Ruwer's two top producers and the village they're located in?
Karthauserhofberg (Eitelsbach) Maximin Grünhaus (Mertesdorf)
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What is the capitol city of the Mosel?
Trier
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What is Müller-Thurgau called in Luxembourg? What Mosel Bereich is this country across the Mosel River from?
Rivaner Across from Obermosel
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Biggest difference between the climates of the Mittelmosel and the Saar?
Saar is open more to the cold easterly winds (hunsruck range tapers off here) which creates a colder mesoclimate.
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Top two producers in the Saar? Village and top vineyard site for both. What three other producers here.
Egon Müller (Wiltingen) Sharzhofberg ``` Geltz Zilliken (Saarburg) Rausch ``` Peter Lauer, Von Hövel, Van Volxem
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Where does Peter Lauer make wine?
Saar
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What are two producers that make Sharzhofberg?
Egon Müller Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt
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What is said to go give Piesporter Goldtropfchen its depth of flavor and style?
The fact that it is a natural amphitheater and also due to its deeper clay-like slate.
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Michelsberg is a Grosselage located where?
Bernkastel Bereich between Trittenheim and Minheim. Piesport is between these two towns.
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Where is the Laurentiuslay vineyard? Who produces it?
Leiwen (near Trittenheim in the Middle Mosel) St Urbans-hof produces it.
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Top vineyard of Drhon? Where is it? Who produces it?
Hoffberg (Middle Mosel between Trittenheim and Piesport) AJ Adam
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One producer of Trittenheimer Apotheke?
Grans-Fassian
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Top vineyards in Brauneberg (Middle Mosel)? Top producer of each?
Juffer and Juffer-Sonnenuhr Fritz-Haag for both
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Top vineyard site in Erden? Producer?
Prälat Dr. Loosen
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Top vineyard in Wehlen? Producer?
Sonnenuhr Joh. Jos. Prüm
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Where does Willi Schafer make wine? Top vineyard?
Graach an der Mosel Graacher Dompropst
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Top two vineyard sites in Graach an der Mosel?
Graacher Himmelreich | Graacher Domprobst
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Top producer in Zelting? Top vineyards?
Selbach-Oster Zeltinger-Sonnenuhr Zeltinger-Schlossberg
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How do the wines of Bernakstel compare to those from Graach?
Bernkastel is flintier Graach wines are earthier
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Top producer in Wehlen?
Joh. Jos. Prüm
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Mosel's biggest wine commune?
Zeltingen
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Two producers of Graacher-Himmelreich?
Willi Schafer | Markus Molitor
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Top vineyard site in Winningen? What Bereich of Mosel is this in? Top producer?
Uhlen Burg Cochem (Terrassenmosel) Heymann-Löwenstein
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What are the 3 rosé specialties of Germany?
Schielerwein: rotling from Sachsen Schillerwein: rotling from Württemberg Weissherbst: rosé from a single variety of red grape usually Spätburgunder
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What is Schneewein?
Snow wine; a term used to describe an ice wine made from grapes gathered when snow covered the vineyards.

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