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1
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What is the 1971 German Law AKA?

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Deutsches Weingesetz

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What were the major reasons for the 1971 German Wine Law?

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Create legal terms for labeling
- Sweetness terms due to increase sweet wine production made possible from sterile filtration
- Created Qba and Pradiakt laws

Conforming with EU regulations

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How many Anbaugebiete were formed in 1971 Germany Wine Law?

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11

Sachsen and Saale-Unstrut were apart of Western Germany

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What terms were commonly used before the 1971 German Wine Law?

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Hochfeine Auslese
Natur
Nikolauswein

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How did the 1971 Germany Wine Law impact the size and number of einzellagen?

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Consolidated 30,000 to 2,700
- Created Grosslagen which is a broad collection of vineyards with no quality indication

Created a minimum 5 ha size

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What is QbA and what are the rules?

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Qualitatswein bestimmer Anbaugebiet - “Quality wine from a growing region”
- 7% alcohol - EU min 8.5%
- Chaptalization is allowed

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What is Tafelwein?

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Table wine
- Can be labeled Deutscher Wein if produced from German grapes
- Vintage and variety are allowed

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What is QmP and what are the rules?

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Qualitatswein mit Pradikat
- Subset within QbA
- Created ripness designations - Kabinett, Spatlese, Auslese, Beerenauslese, Eiswein, Trockenbeerenauslese
- Bans chaptalitzation because ripeness is determined at harvest
- Min alcohol of 7% for Kabinett, Spatlese, and Auslese
- Min alcohol of 5.5 for Beerenauslese, Eiswein, Trockenbeerenauslese

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What is “Amtliche Prüfungsnummer”?

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An official number awarded to QbA and QmP wines after passing a mandatory chemical and sensory anaylsis

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What does each set of digit represent in an AP number?

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1 - Location of the exam board
2 - Village in which the wine was produced
3 - Producer
4 - Unique number of bottling
5 - Year the wine was tested, usually 1 year after vintage

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11
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What % of German wine production is QbA or QmP?

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98%

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How did the Pradikat system impact plantings?

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Crossing like Muller-Thurgau were favored because of their early ripening and ability to reaching Pradikat minimums

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13
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What is sussreserve?

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Sterilized fresh grape must
- 1971 German wine law allows up to 15% of total volume of wine because RS no longer mattered for Pradikat ripeness designations
- Created disconnect from Pradikat and sweetness

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What is Landwein?

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IGP category including Trocken and Halbtrocken wines produced from any of 26 winegrowing regions called Landweingebiete
- Added in 1982

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What changes were made in 1982 to the German Wine law?

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  • Added Landwein
  • Added Eiswein as a pradikat level
  • Allowed exceptions for famous vineyards smaller than 5 hectares
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What changes were made in 2000 the German Wine Law?

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  • Added Selection
    - “Superior dry”
    - 9 g/L RS
    - hand-harvest, single vineyard, single variety
    - Yields are 60 hl/ha
    - Auslese must weight
  • Added Classic
    - “Harmoniously dry”
    - max 15 g/L RS
    - Monovarietal, no vineyard label
  • Classic and Selection were introduced to replace halbtrocken and trocken
    - Never caught on
    - Feinherb (slightly off-dry), though technically illegal, persists on labels
    - Both show a superior minimum alcohol content of 12% (11.5% in the Mosel)
    - Both wines may not be released prior to September 1 of the year following harvest
    - Both Yields are restricted to 60 hl/ha
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17
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What changes were made in 1999 to the Germany Wine Law?

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Erstes Gewaches got formal approval for use on the labels of dry wines from specific sites in Rheingau

  • Unlike the Charta designation, or the Grosses Gewächs of the VDP, the Erstes Gewächs category is available to all producers who adhere to its requirements and have a share in the selected land—which amounts to almost one-third of the entire planted area of the Rheingau—resulting in a watered-down sense of “first growth” by anyone’s standards.
  • Erstes Gewächs, now accompanied by the logo of three arches, is legally sanctioned and therefore spelled out in full on Rheingau labels.
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What is Goldkapsule?

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A Gold capsule (metal foil) practice became common because the 1971 German Wine law prevent sweetness terms
- In some cases they use an even longer golden capsule (lange Goldkapsule) to indicate an ever rarer and more special selection
- Linked to botrytis
- Beerenauslese may be declassified to Auslese with a Goldkapsule because it showed more pure varietal character than the higher Pradikat would typically demonstrate even though it was by law able to be considered Beerenauslese
- Besides the color of the capsule, the only way to tell a Goldkapsule wine is to note it’s A.P number
- In the Mosel, producers have developed a second code to distinguish among different tiers of wine within a Pradikat and from the same vineyard by adding ,** or ** stars, sometimes in conjunction with a Goldkapsule

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What is the VDP?

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Verband Deutscher Pradikatsweinguter

An association of growers (195 in 2017) German producers dedicated to high quality

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When was the VDP created and why?

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Originally in 1910 as VDNV - Verband Deutscher Naturweinvigerer

4 regional winegrowers associations that promoted the sale of Natur (unchaptalized) wines at auction

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When did the VDP create their vineyard classification system and why?

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1984

Used old tax registries and Napoleonic maps to rediscover parcels forgotten after the 1971 German Wine law or Flurbereinigung (physically restructuring vineyards including flattening or filling ancient terraced vineyards)

Officially launched a 3 tier system in 2002
Refined in 2012 to current system

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What are the membership requires of the VDP?

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  • Commitment to classification system
  • High minimum must weights
  • Lower maximum yields of auslese or above
  • Hand-harvest for single vineyards, auslese or above
  • Must cultivate 80% or more traditional grapes set by regional association
  • Cannot use Grosslagen terms from 1971 wine law
  • VDP logo must be on all bottles
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23
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What is the VDP logo called?

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Traubenadler

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24
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List the vineyards tiers of the VDP system

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Gutswein - Anbaugebiet
Orstwein - Village
Erste Lage - Premier Cru
Grosse Lage - Grand Cru

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25
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What is commonly added to the name of Gutswein?

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Name of anbaugebeit and a fantasty name?

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What is commonly added to the name of an Orstwein?

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Village name and Soil type
- kalkstein = limestone
- Blauen Schiefer = Blue slate
- Buntsandstein = Red Sandstone

27
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What yields are allowed for Erste lage?

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60 hl/ha

28
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What yields are allowed for Grosse Lage?

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50 hl/ha

29
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Where can the category appear on a VDP wine bottle?

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On the capsule by the VDP logo

Gutswein and Orstwein are not often used however

30
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Are pradikat labels allowed?

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Yes as well as labelling for sweet wines only

31
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What does Grosse Gewaches (GG) denote?

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A DRY Grosse Lage wine

32
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What are the aging requirements of GG wines?

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White - Sept 1, 1st year after harvest

Red - Sept 1, 2nd year after harvest, 12 months in oak

33
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When may VDP Grosse Lage wines be released?

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May 1, 1st year after harvest

34
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What are all VDP categorized as according to 1971 German Wine Law?

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Qualitatswein

35
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Which Anbaugebiet do NOT have Erste Lage?

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Mosel
Ahr
Rheinhessen

36
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Name VDP producers and examples that use their historical label language instead of Grosse Lage and Erste Lage

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  • Burklin-Wolf continues to label top singe-vineyard wines as “GC” and PC”
  • Schloss Johannisberg continues to label their Silberlack Grosses Lage Riesling as Trocken even though Koehler-Ruprecht was forbidden from using traditional Pradikat level on their dry wines
    • This dispute led Koehler-Ruprecht to leave the association in 2014
  • In the Mosel producers make Grosse Lage Kabinett at yields of 60 to 70 hl/ha because higher yields are more suitable for that style of wine
37
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What is hock?

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Term for German wine created by English merchants in the 1800s

38
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When did phylloxera hit Germany?

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1872

39
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Where and when was the first sparkling wine made in Germany?

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1826
Wurttemberg

40
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What is the origin of the Sekt tax?

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Kaiser Wilhelm set it in 1902 to finance his navy
- Has remained at 1.02 euro per bottle since

41
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Where does Germany rank in sparkling wine?

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1 consuption per capita

#3 production

42
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What is the most common production method for Sekt?

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Tank method

43
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Where can grapes be sourced for Sekt?

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Anywhere

“Sekt of France” indicated Sekt made from French grapes

44
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List high quality Sekt producers

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Reichsrat von Buhl
Sekthaus Raumland - Rheinhessen

45
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What is Müller-Thurgau a crossing of?

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Riesling x Madeleine Royale

46
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What is the crossing of Dornfelder?

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HELFENSTEINER X HEROLDSREBE

47
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What is the online retail pricing for the following wines? (Current Release)

Egon Muller Scharzofberger TBA
Weingut Keller G-Max
Blue Nun Original White

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Egon Muller Scharzofberger TBA - $16,000 +/- $1,000
Weingut Keller G-Max - $2,200 +/- $200
Blue Nun Original White - $6 +/- $1

48
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Match the following Einzellage to its Gemeinde.

a. Hipping
b. Josephshofer
c. Ungeheuer
d. Karthauserhofberg
e. BRAUNE KUPP

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a. Hipping – NIERSTEIN
b. Josephshofer – GRAACH
c. Ungeheuer – FORST AN DER WEINSTRABE
d. Karthauserhofberg – TRIER
e. BRAUNE KUPP – WILTINGEN

49
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“Sadly, (winery) was almost completely destroyed in the floods which ravaged the Ahr Valley
in 2021. Bottles, barrels, cellar equipment, vehicles and machinery were all lost. The press and
tanks were carried many kilometers downriver. Thankfully there were no lives lost here, and the
vineyards are relatively undamaged.”

A

WEINGUT MEYER-NAKEL

50
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Scheurebe is a crossing of what two varieties?

A

RIESLING X SILVANER

51
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The first grape variety bred in Geilweilerhof, this variety has been declining in Germany but a
varietal bottling, Totally Botrytis Affected, is made in the Okanagan Valley by Quail’s Gate as an
homage to the prestigious TBA wines of Germany.

A

WHAT IS OPTIMA

52
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What year was Eiswein designated as its own Pradikat level?

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1982

53
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A producer may choose to declassify the Pradikat a designation under what condition?

A

WARM VINTAGES & GOLDKAPSULE BOTTLINGS

54
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One-degree Oechsle, calibrated at 17.5 degrees Celsius, is defined as an increase of 1 liter of
must by how many grams of weight?

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AS LONG AS THE TEMPERATURE AT THE TIME OF MEASUREMENT IS 17.5 DEGREES CELSIUS, ONE
DEGREE Oe IS EQUAL TO 1 GRAM OF WEIGHT WITHIN 1 LITER OF MUST.

55
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Oechsle requirements for Kabinett Riesling in the Pfalz are equal to that of the Mosel.

A

TRUE, MINIMUMS FOR BOTH ARE 73 DEGREES.

56
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Is chaptalization allowed in Qualitatswein?

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YES BUT NOT FOR PRADIKATSWEIN

57
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What is the minimum ageing requirement for ‘GG’ red wine?

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MINIMUM 2 YEARS

58
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T/F. Halbtrocken wines are a result of stuck fermentations and are largely considered to be of
lesser quality.

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TRUE

59
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Name a goldkapsel bottling outside of the Mosel.

A

THERE ARE NONE, please provide examples if they exist

60
Q

Burg Cochem sits between what two cities?

A

ZELL AND KOBLENZ

61
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What phrase is used for German grape must (ex. Grappa or Marc).

A

TRESTER

62
Q

Schillerwein, a pale red wine typically made from both red and white grapes, is typically
produced in what anbaugebeit?

A

WURTTEMBERG

63
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A

Germany (15 decks)

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