German Producers Flashcards
Where is Kiedricher Turmberg? Who’s monopole is this?
Rheingau
Robert Weil
Is Kiedricher Turmberg an Erste Lage or Grosse Lage?
Erste Lage
Robert Weil’s top Grosse Lage holding in the Rheingau?
Kiedricher Gräfenberg
What is Georg Breuer’s Alleinbesitz? Where is the Alleinbesitz?
Rauenthaler Nonnenberg
Eastern end of the Rheingau
Georg Breuer has holdings in these three Grosse Lage vineyards of Rüdesheim.
Berg Schlossberg
Berg Roseneck
Berg Rottland
True or False: Georg Breuer allows brotrytis in the dry wines.
False
This winery is presumed to be the oldest riesling estate in the world?
Schloss Johannisberg
This winery claims the first spätlese and eiswein made in the world.
Schloss Johannisberg
How does Schloss Johannisberg specify the style of wine on the seal?
Gelback (yellow seal) - QbA
Rotlack (red seal) - Kabinett
Grünlack (green seal) - Spätlese
Silberback (silver seal) - Grosse Lage
Rosalack (pink seal) - Auslese
Rosa-Goldlack (pink-gold seal) - Beerenauslese
Goldlack (golden seal) - Trockenbeerenauslese
Blaulack (blue seal) - Eiswein
What is a second wine that Georg Breuer produces?
Terra Montosa Riesling
-a second wine from both Rüdesheim and Rauenthal
Where is Künstler located?
Hochheim am Mein, Rheingau
Where id Künstler originally have vines?
-1648 in South Moravia, Czech Republic
-the estate moved to Hochheim am Mein in 1965
List the three Grosse Lage sites that Künstler has vineyards in Hochheim.
Kirchenstück
Hölle
Reichestal
Domdechaney
What is Künstler’s top vineyard site in Kostheim?
Weiss Erd
What are Künstler’s top wines?
Hochheimer Kirchenstück Riesling GG
Hochheimer Hölle Riesling GG
Kostheimer Weiss Erd Riesling GG
Who claims the oldest bottle of drinkable riesling in the Rheingau?
Schloss Schönborn
-their 1735 Johannisberger, which was sold at auction in 1987 for $29.5K, tasted, then recorked.
What is Schloss Schönborn’s Alleinbesitz?
Hattenheimer Pfaffenberg
Peter Jakob Kuhn has vineyards in which Grosse Lage the following:
Oestrich
Mittelheim
Oestrich: Doosberg and Lenchen
Mittelheim: Sankt Nikolaus
Where is this bottle from? How long is it aged?
From the Grosse Lage of Doosberg in Oestrich in the Rheingau.
Spends 32 months in fuder.
One of Peter Jakob Kühn’s top bottlings.in th
Where is this bottle from? How old are the vines? How long is it aged?
From the Grosse Lage of Sankt Nikolaus in Mittelheim in the Rheingau.
80 year old vines
Aged for 32 months in fuder
Where do Josef Leitz’s vineyards lie?
-On the westernmost part of the Rheingau on the Rüdesheimer Berg—a steep, south-facing hillside of extremely old slate and quartzite—planted entirely to riesling, encompassing the Grand Crus of Schlossberg, Rottland, and Roseneck
What is special about the Der Kaiser bottling of Letiz?
-Sits high, just beneath the forest line of the Rüdesheimer-Berg
-a spectacular view overlooking the confluence of the Nahe and Rhein Rivers.
-composed of quartzite, very old grey slate, as well as some iron-rich red slate and produces wines with incredible complexity and length
-one of the his most sought after wines
How does Letiz label his GG’s?
He designates the pre-1971 parcel names on select bottlings, reviving the individual voices:
-Rüdesheimer Berg Kaisersteinfels GG ‘Terrassen’
-Rüdesheimer Berg Schlossberg GG ‘Ehrenfels’
-Rüdesheimer Berg Rottland GG ‘Hinterhaus’
-Rüdesheimer Berg Roseneck GG ‘Katerloch’
Who owns the monopole Rosengarten? Where is it located?
Joseph Leitz
-In Rüdesheim in Western Rheingau
