Germany

Question 1

List the five levels of the Pradikatswein system from top down?

Answer 1

TBA: Troken Beerneauslese
BA: Beerenauslese
Auslese
Spatlese
Kabinett

Top most sweet
Bottom Dry

TBA & BA always made sweet

*Auslese made sweet but can be trocken in cool vintages

Spatlese, and Kabinett usually trocken

Question 2

What does Spatlese entail for the wine?

Answer 2

It is a late-harvest wine

Bottled Trocken at ~13%

Question 3

What does Troken mean?

Answer 3

It is a dry wine

Question 4

What does Sekt mean?

Answer 4

It is a sparkling wine

Question 5

What does Auslese mean?

Answer 5

It is a selected harvest

Possible Noble rot

Bottled at 7-8% abv

Question 6

What does Beerenauslese

Answer 6

“Berries of a select harvest”
High % of noble rot grapes,
Plus Very ripe berries
Bottled at 6% abv

Question 7

What does Trokenbeerenauslese

Answer 7

Dried, berries, selected
Very high% noble rot
heavy selection
Bottled at 6% abv

Question 8

What does Eiswein

Answer 8

Very rare, great acidity but also very sweet
Only produced in certain years

Question 9

What does Grosses Gewachs mean?

Answer 9

“First growth” made by a member of the VDP (Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter) and will be dry Qualitätswein form the best vineyard sites. These are considered the very best dry wines of Germany