Germany

Question 1

What are the sub varieties of Sylvaner?

Answer 1

Gruner Sylvaner

Gelber Sylvaner

Question 2

What is Rulander

Answer 2

BA effected Grauburgunder (pinot gris)

Baden and Pfalz

Question 3

What is Frunburgunder

Answer 3

A mutation of pinot noir.
-ripens earlier / lower acid / darker colour
(where) - Ahr
also France - Pinot Precoce

Question 4

Name 3 outstanding producers of the Nahe.

Answer 4

Donhoff
Emrich-Schonleber
Armand Diel

Question 5

What are two geological influences of the Mosel?

Answer 5

Hunstruck and Eifel Mountains

Question 6

What vineyard is the source for Donhoffs prized Eiswein?

Answer 6

Oberhauser Bruck (monopole)

Question 7

Gunderloch received 100pts for what wines?

Answer 7

Nackenheimer Rothenberg TBA

1992 / 1996 / 2001

Question 8

What are the 5 parcels that lie in Eitelsberg Karthauserhofberg’s prized vineyard?

Answer 8

1. Burgburg
2. Kronenberg
3. Ortsberg
4. Sang
5. Stim
   S-E facing vines.

Question 9

What is the second wine of Keller?

Answer 9

Von der Fels (from the rocks)

Rheinhessen

Question 10

What is the risidual sugar level for a wine labeled Trocken?

Answer 10

4g/l

may be up to 9g/l IF total acidity is within 2g/l total RS

Question 11

What does Grosse Gewaches indicate on a label.

Answer 11

VDP classification for a dry wine from the best vineyards.

Question 12

What term would indicate that a sparkling wine was made in the Traditional Methode?

Answer 12

Flaschengarung

flashen / garung

Question 13

What would Erste Gewachs indicate on a label?

Answer 13

Dry wine from best vineyard in Rheingau

Question 14

What is the term for training system using single stakes?

Answer 14

Einzelpfahlerziehung
einzel / fahler / zie / hung
due to steep gradient

Question 15

What type of wine is Badisch Rotgold?

Answer 15

A Rotling from Baden
(Rotling - Rose form R and W grapes)
min 51% Grauburgunder (PG) + Spatburgunder
aka. Schillerwein - Sachen / Württemberg

Question 16

Which Anbaugebite do not use the Erste Age Classification?

Answer 16

Mosel
Ahr
Rheinhessen
(they use GC / PC)

Question 17

What does VDP stand for?

Answer 17

Verband Deutscher Pradikatsweinguter
(1910)
GG: less than 10g/l
EG: more than 13g/l
Troken: 9g/l

Question 18

What is the maximum yield for a VDP Grosse Lage wine?

Answer 18

50hl/ha

Question 19

What are the Ochsle levels?

Answer 19

Kabinet: 70-85

Spatlese: 80-95

Auslese: 88-105

Beerentrockenauslese: 110-128

Eiswein: 110-128

TBA: 150-154

Question 20

what soils define the Urzig and Erden vineyards?

Answer 20

MOSEL:

characterized instead by iron-rich Devonian red slate

Question 21

What soils define the majority of the Mosel?

Answer 21

Devonian blue slate

Question 22

What is a Straußwirtschaften?

Answer 22

seasonal wine bar opened usually by the owner of a winery who sells their wines.

Question 23

When did riesling plantings outnumber muller thurgau?

Answer 23

late 1990’s

Question 24

What is the meassument of a Doppelstuck?

Answer 24

Halbstuck 600
Stuck 1200
Doppelstuck 2400

Question 25

What is the only house to focus 100% on Sekt?

Answer 25

Volker Raumland (Rheinhessen)