Germany Flashcards
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What are German wines with no specific designation labeled as?
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Wein
Tafelwein
Deutscher Wein
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What are the 4 German wine classifications?
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Wein (Deutscher Wein)
Landwein
Qualitatswein
Pradikatswein
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List at least 4 common white wine varietals of Germany
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Riesling Sylvaner Muller-Thurgau Baccus Kerber Grauburgunder Weissburgunder Gewurztraminer
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List at least 2 common red wine varietals in Germany
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Spatburgunder
Trollinger
Dornfelder
Schwarzriesling
5
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What is an Anbaugebiete? How many of them are there in Germany?
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German wine region
13
6
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What is the German term for a single vineyard?
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Einzellage
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What are the 6 ripeness levels of Pradikat?
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Kabinett Spatlese Auslese Beerenauslese Eiswein Trockenbeerenauslese
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Most common soil character found throughout Germany?
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Slate
9
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What is the term for German sparkling wine?
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Sekt
10
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13 Anbaugebiete
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Mosel Pfalz Nahe Ahr Franken Rheingau Rheinhessen Saale-Unstrut Sachsen Wurtemberg Mittelrhein Baden Hessische-Bergstrasse
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What does VDP stand for? What is its symbol or logo?
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Verband Deutscher Pradikatweinguter
Black Eagle
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List these in appropriate order from worst to best: Erste lage, Grosse Gewachs, Gutswein, Grosse Lage, Ortswein
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Gutswein Ortswein Erste Lage Grosse Lage Grosse Gewachs
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What is the top category of German wine that is designated by site location and not ripeness level?
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QbA (Qualitatswein)
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What is the german term for Pinot Noir
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Spatburgunder
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What is the German term for Pinot Blanc?
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Weissburgunder
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What is the German term for Pinot Gris?
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Grauburgunder
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What is the German term for a sub-region of an Anbaugebiete?
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Bereiche
18
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What is a common practice in Germany used by winemakers to raise alcohol levels after fermentation?
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Chaptalization
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When looking at bottles of Rheingau and Mosel wines, what’s the easiest way to decipher which is which?
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Mosel - green bottles
Rheingau - brown
Nahe - blue
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What is the term for a unit of measurement when determining the level of sugar in grape must?
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Oschle
21
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The most prized vineyards of Germany face what direction?
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South; South-west
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Which wine region of Germany is historically the most important?
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Rheingau
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Which wine region of Germany has the most concentrated amount of slate in its soils?
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Mosel
24
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Name 2 important producers from the Mosel
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Joh Jos Prum
Dr Loosen
Egon Muller
Selbach Oster
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Name 2 important producers from the Rheingau
August Kesseler
Kuhn
JB Becker
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Name 1 important producer from Pfalz
Von Buhl
Pfeffingen
Burkin-Wolf
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Name 1 important producer from Nahe
Donnhoff
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What particular body of water is so important to the wine production of Germany?
Rhine (runs North to South)
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Where are Germany's wine regions located?
49th parallel
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What are the production limitations on Grosse Lage's?
only one dry wine may be produced
range of sweet wine from pradikat levels may be made
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What does Erste Lage translate to?
first site
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Major difference between QbA and QmP
QbA can be chaptalized
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Major Wine Law in Germany
German Wine Law of 1971
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Who was responsible for much of the vineyard developments in Germany in the Middle Ages?
the Church
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Who ended the Church's influence in German viticulture
Napoleon
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What are Bacchus and Faber known for?
Their ability to ripen where Riesling cannot
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Most planted grape in Germany
Formerly Muller-Thurgau; Now Riesling
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Most planted red & white varieties of Germany
Riesling & Spatburgunder (Pinot Noir)
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When did Pinot Noir arrive in Germany?
14th century
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How are Grosses Gewachs labelled?
By initial (GG)
The full term is barred on German wine labels
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How are dry wines labeled in Grosse Lage and Erste Lage?
Grosse Lage - Grosses Gewachs
| Erste Lage - Trocken
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Widume - Manoth
month of vintage; replaced October in the Carolingian Calendar instituted by Charlemagne
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einzellagen
vineyards (single vineyard sites)
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When can Sekt be labelled as Qualitatswein?
If it is produced from traditional grapes grown in one of the anbaugebiete
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What setback actually led to better wines in Germany?
The demand for more food stuffs led to pushing grapevines to the otherwise unworkable slopes
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What quality level is many of the GG released as?
Qualitatswein
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Einzellage
single vineyard
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Edelfaule
Noble rot
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How many wineries are in the VDP?
200
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What is the logo for the VDP?
Black Eagle
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6 degrees of ripeness or must weight
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Kabinett
Spatlese
Auslese
Beerenauslese
Eiswein
Trockenbeerenauslese
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What practice that is common in German wine may not be done at the Pradikatswein level?
Chaptalization
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Why may wines be declassified to a lower pradikat?
during warm vintages
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Why are the minimums a range in pradikats?
Each anbaugebiete has its own minimum
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What does Germany use to decide quality?
must weight
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Which is the higher tier -- Pradikatswein or Qualitatswein?
Pradikatswein
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How much of the stated variety must be present to be varietally labeled in Germany?
85%
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What is different about Burklin-Wolf labelling
Labels its Grosse Lage wines GC for Grand Cru instead of GG
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What did Germany's VDP base its tiers on?
Burgundy
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Can a site be recognized under VDP & German Wine Law?
Yes, but VDP is more restrictive and thus not all land from 1971 may be included
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When was the "discovery" of Spatlese harvesting?
1775
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Weinkellerei
Wine cellar or winery
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Unfermented grape must
Sussreserve - literally meaning sweet reserve
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Major grape varieties of Germany
Riesling
Sylvaner
Muller-Thurgau
Spatburgunder (Pinot Noir)
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How many regions in Germany?
13
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German for Regions
Anbaugebiete
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What are the 13 Anbaugebiete
Ahr, Baden, Franken, Hessische Bergstrasse, Mittelrhein, Mosel, Nahe, Pfalz, Rheinessen, Rheingau, Saale-Unstrut, Sachsen, Wurthemberg
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German equivalent to vin de pays
Deutscher Landwein
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Climate of Germany
cool continental
| moderated by various rivers
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Zentralkellerei
a central cooperative that gets its wine or must from small cellars in the areas and blends, produces, and bottles the wine
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Winzergenassenschaft
Co-op
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Winzer
Wine Grower
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Weissherbst
Rose from a single variety of red grape
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Weinsaure
Tartaric acid
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Weinberg
German for vineyard
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Vorlese
A pre-harvest before the main harvest to eliminate rotten or defective bunches
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Trocken
dry; generally 4 g/L or less but residual sugar but can be up to 9g/L if total acidity is within 2 g/L of total residual sugar
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Ton
Clay
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Spritzig
German term for the taste sensation of a wine which contains just enough CO2 to be apparent on the tongue as a prickly sensation (but not enough to be obviously sparkling)
Effervescence
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Steillage
Literally : steep site
A vineyard with an inclination of more than 30%
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Spontangarung
German tasting term for wines made by spontaneous fermentation versus wines inoculated by cultured yeasts. The former has an earthiness versus the cleaner fruit-forward smells of selected yeasts
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Sonnenuhr
A sundial often very large on steep vineyard sites
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Scholter
Gravel
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Badisch Rotgold
A rotling from the Baden region. Made from Grauburgunder (min 51%) and Spatburgunder. Composition must be declared on the label.
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How does Chaptalization differ from Anreicherung?
Chaptelization means addition of sugar only
Enrichment also includes the addition of grape must, concentrated grape must, and RCGM (Rectified Concentrated Grape Must)
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Anreicherung
Broad term for sweetening must before or during fermentation
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What is the AP #?
| What all does it include?
Amtliche Prufungsnummer
Exam Board number, commune number, producers registered number, an application number, and the year of the application
Some use the application number as a sequential indication of sweetness
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Amtliche Prufungsnummer
commonly referred to as the AP#; a quality control number on all QbA and QmP wines
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Alte Reben
Old vines
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Alleinbesitz
A vineyard which is owned by only one owner
| similar to a monopole in France
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Absetzen
The process settling of solids (dead yeast cells, leftover grape skin fragments, etc.) to the bottom of a vat of wine or must
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What two ways are German wines of quality labeled?
dry - Grosses Gewachs (GG)
| sweet - by pradikat
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Gutswein maximum yield
75 hl/ha
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Ortswein maximum yield
75 hl/ha
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Erste Lage maximum yield
60 hl/ha
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Grosse Lage maximum yield
50 hl/ha
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VDP Classification Levels
Grosse Lage - Grand Cru wines
Erste Lage - Premier Cru wines
Ortswein - Village wines
Gutswein - Regional wines
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What created the VDP?
2002 VDP accord
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How does the VDP accomplish its goal?
It counts nearly 200 of Germany's finest estates as members and promotes their wines through an extralegal, tiered hierarchy, and more restrictive classification of einzellagen than the government provides
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What is VDP's ideology?
core belief in the quality and tradition of dry wines & an emphasis on terroir and vineyard site as a measure of quality
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What does Charta represent?
First attempt by producers to validate dry wines within a system that only rewards sugar
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Charta's symbol
3 Roman arches - styled from the balcony of Graue Haus in Winkel
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Charta
Founded in 1984, it was formed to promote the classic, dry style of Rheingau Riesling
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Former name/purpose of VDP
Verband Deutscher Naturweinvesteigerer
originally strove to promote unchaptalized natur wines (principally through wine auctions)
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VDP
Verband Deutscher Pradikatsweinguter
national German association of producers committed to quality
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Lieblich
medium-sweet
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Eiswein minimum Ochsle
110-128 degrees
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Trockenbeerenauslese minimum Ochsle
150-154 degrees
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Beerenauslese minimum Ochsle
110-128 degrees
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Auslese minimum Ochsle
88-105 degrees
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Spatlese minimum Ochsle
80-95 degrees
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Abfuller
bottler or shipper who assumes the responsibility for the origin & quality of a wine
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Grosser Ring
Mosel growers association
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Grosselage
collection of vineyards; misleading term for inexpensive wines
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Major Red Grapes of Germany
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Spatburgunder (Pinot Noir)
Dornfelder
Blauer Portugieser
Trollinger
Schwarzriesling (Pinot Meunier)
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Major White Grapes of Germany
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Riesling
Muller Thurgau
Sylvaner
Grauburgunder (Pinot Gris)
Weissburguner (Pinot Blanc)
Kerner
Bacchus
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Who is trying to revamp the German wine image?
Verband Deutscher Pradikatsweinguter (VDP)
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Liebfraumilch
- sweet, cheap, characterless beverage
- By the 1980s - 60% of German export was Liebfraumilch
- Singlehandedly destroyed the image of German wine
- usually Muller-Thurgau but can't be varietally labelled
- may be blended from Rheinhessen, Nahe, Rheingau, or Pfalz
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Grosses Gewachs
VDP classification of dry wines from the best vineyards must be Spatlese ripeness
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Gerbstoff
Tannin
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Gemeinde
local community or village - Piesport from example
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Fuder
1000 liter cask common in the Mosel
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What happened after WWII?
Germany focused its plantings on flat vineyards suited for mechanical harvest instead of the slopes which make better wines
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Schloss
German word for castle; on a wine label it is equivalent to the French word "Chateau"
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What led to a decline in German wine quality?
Phylloxera, Mildew, depression, WWI, WWII, Liebfraumilch
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Schielerwein
A rotling from Sachsen
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Schillerwein
A rotling from Wurttemberg
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2nd most planted Red grape of Germany
Dornfelder - a crossing of Helfensteiner and Heroldrebe
Also the most prominent red crossing
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Schneewein
Snow wine; term used to describe an ice wine made from grapes gathered when snow covered the vineyards
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Stuck
1200 liter cask commonly used in the Rheingau
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Rotliegendes
Reddish slate
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Ortsteil
suburb
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Scheurebe
early 20th century crossing of Riesling and Bukeltrebe, developed in Rheinhessen, one of the few crossings to show quality potential
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alleinbesitz
monopole
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Rotling
Rose wine that is produced from a mixture of red and white varieties; a rotling must have pale red or clear red color
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Restzucker
residual sugar
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What did the German wine law of 1971 do?
Condensed 30,000 einzellagen into 2600 registered vineyards each of a minimum size of 5 hectares
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Kerner
Trollinger x Riesling
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Name exemptions to the minimum size requirements in Germany
Doctor vineyard in Bernkastel (3 hectares in 1984)
Kirchenstuck & Freundstuck vineyards in Forst
Schloss Vollrads orsteil vineyard in Rheingau
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Classic producers in Germany
Schloss Johannisberg
Reichsgraff von Kesselstatt
Reinhold Haart
Dr. Burklin Wolf
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Reinzuchthefen
Pure culture yeasts used by growers afraid of risk, hence stuck fermentations
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When did Riesling come to Germany?
1402 (russling)
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Mostgewicht
Must weight, which is the weight of sugar in the grapes at the time of harvest
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Mergel
Heavy Loam
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Muller-Thurgau
originally though to be Riesling x Silvaner it is actually Riesling x Madeleine Royale
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edelfaule
noble rot
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Who discovered the use of noble rot in wine-making?
Schloss Johannisberg in the Rheingau
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What were the best wines produced along the Rhine called in English markets?
Hock
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When can Erste Lage be released?
May 1 following harvest year
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Grosses Gewachs release limitations
Whites - not before September 1 of the year following the harvest
Red wine - Extra year of aging
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Difference between Grosses Gewachs and Erstes Gewachs
Erstes Gewachs - allowed to be fully spelled out on label
| Only in Rheingau
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Where are Grosses Gewachs labelled alternatively?
Rheingau - labelled as Erstes Gewachs - a trademark established by Charta
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Maximum RS in Grosses Gewachs
9g/L
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Grosse Lage wine requirements
- harvested by hand
- max yield 50 hl/ha
- minimum must weight = to spatlese
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Do all anbaugebiete have Erste Lage?
No, all must have Grosse Lage, but each indivindual anbaugebiete chooses whether to adopt Erste Lage
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Grosse Lage logo
one followed by a cluster of grapes
| formerly Erste lage logo
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Famous monastery that was the largest Middle Ages vineyard holdings
Kloster Eberbach
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Kabinett Minimum Ochsle
70-85 degrees
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Anbaugebiete
Germany's 13 quality wine regions
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Lehm
Loam soil
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Keuper
clay and slate soil
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Kelter
Wine press
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Kellerei
wine cellar (or wholesaler)
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What level is most sekt?
Deutscher Wein
| Produced using Charmat method
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Hauptlese
The Main Harvest
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Wein/Deutscher Wein
100% German - Deutscher Wein - may be varietally labelled
May include all other countries - Wein (all countries must be listed on label because of new EU allowances on table wine)
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Handgeruttelt
Hand Riddled
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Halbtrocken
half-dry, generally less than 18g/L residual sugar
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Gutsabfullung
grown, produced, and bottled by the same person/estate
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Landwein
originates in one of the 26 broad regions and must be trocken or halbtrocken in style
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Bacchus
(Silvaner x Riesling) x Muller-Thurgau
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Categories under Qualitatswein and Pradikatswein
Landwein (PGI) - w/o geographic indication
| Wein (Deutscherwein) - formerly tafelwein until 2009
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Ehrenfelser
Riesling x Silvaner
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Flubereinigung
restructuring of German vineyards
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Flaschengarung
bottle fermented sekt
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Feinherb
half dry - no legal definition
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What did the Geisenheim Wine Institute develop?
a number of hardier grape crossings that would ripen in greater abundance across a variety of sites
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Federweisser
Unfiltered must containing CO2 and yeast that is still in the process of fermenting. An autumn specialty served with onion quiche or roasted chestnuts
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Erzeugerabfullung
grown and produced by the same grower of cooperative
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Erste Gewachs
legal term used for dry wines in the Rheingau from the best vineyards
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Name of the wine institute in Rheingau
The Geisenheim Wine Institute - 1872
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What is Grosses Gewachs?
Dry wine from a Grosse Lage vineyard
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Ap # 5 sets of numbers
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1 - Region where tested
2- Commune where bottled
3 - Bottler's code
4- Unique code for the bottling
5- Year appellation was filed
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Einzelpfahlerziehung
A vine individually trained to a single stake used on very steep slopes such as the Mosel
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Deutscher Sekt
Sparkling wine made by any method from grapes grown in Germany
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What provides the soil in Germany the stress that great wines require?
proximity to rivers
| South & southwest facing vineyards - receive direct and reflected warmth of the sun
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What drove Germans to an interest in viticultural science & research
proximity of German vineyards to the northerly limit for viticulture - thus the reliability of ripening and susceptibility to frost
Also a desire for improvements in yield and disease resistance
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Grand Cru/Premier Cru equivalent in German
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Grosses Lage (Grand Cru)
Erste Lage (Premier Cru)
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What is the VDP?
self proclaimed association of German quality and Pradikat wine estate
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What is an AP number?
Amtliche Prufungsnummer
series of 5 sets of numbers indicating wine has been approved by a tasting panel
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Minimum alcohol % for Pradikatswein
minimum 7% (5.5% for Beerenauslese, TBA, and Eiswein)
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Biologische Saureabbau
malolactic fermentation
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How are the pradiakts measured?
by degrees according to the Ochsle scale
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Where can Qualitatswein & Pradikatswein be produced?
only in one of Germany's 13 Anbaugebiete
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What's the issue with Germany's 2 quality tiers?
The two categories comprise 95% of each vintage even Liebfraumilch is considered QbA
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2 tiers of German quality wine
Qualitatswein (formerly Qualitatswein bestimmer Anbaugebiete)
Pradikatswein (formerly Qualitatswein mit Pradikat)
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Weissherbst
saignee rose made from a single variety and at least QbA quality
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What are the pradikats
sub categories of Pradikatswein determined by grape must at harvest
Kabinett, Spatlese, Auslese, Beerenauslese, Eiswein, Trockenbeerenauslese
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Bottling requirements for VDP
Estate-bottling mandatory
| Capsules must have VDP logo (Eagle w/ grapes)
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Famous German producers in the VDP
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Robert Weil
Reichsgraff von Kesselstatt
Dr. Loosen
Egon Muller
Jon Jos Prum
Donnhoff
Keller
Burklin Wolf
Toni Jost
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Difference between Ortswein & Gutswein
Ortswein - sourced from many vineyard sites in a single village
Gutswein - sourced from estate's holdings within a single anbaugebiete
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Centerpiece of Kloster Eberbach
walled Steinberg vineyard
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Aside from VDP who else created a set of rules to improve the wine law of 1971
state-affiliated German Wine Institute at Mainz
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What two categories did the German Wine Institute create?
Classic (halbtrocken)
| Selection (trocken)
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Classic (German Wine Institute)
considered "harmoniously dry" with a maximum residual sugar content of 15g/L
Replaced halbtrocken
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Selection (German Wine Institute)
considered "superior dry" with a maximum residual sugar content of 9g/L (Riesling may have 12g/L)
Replaced trocken
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Limitations for "Classic" wines
Single varietal wines
no vineyard mention
minimum alcohol content 12 % (11.5% in Mosel)
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Limitations on "Selection" wines
Single vineyard wines from a single variety
Yields restricted to 60 hl/ha
Must weight = Auslese
Hand Harvested
May not be released prior to Sep 1 after harvest
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Difference between VDP and Classic/Selection
- Classic/Selection legally recognized terms
- may be used by producers in any anbaugebiete that meet the requirements
- Competing systems
- despite no legal backing VDP is superior and supported by better producers
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Former name of Mosel prior to Aug 1 2007
Mosel - Saar - Ruwer
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goldkapsel
gold-colored capsule
- generally indicates additional sweetness due to a higher must weight
- most common on auslese
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Lange Goldkapsel
longer gold capsule
| Even richer bottles than goldkapsel
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How does Mosel use goldkapsels?
as a means of subverting the 1971 Wine Law which ruled no additional qualifications on pradikat such as feine and hochfeine
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Main river in Mosel and its tributaries
Mosel; Saar; Ruwer
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Six Bereich of Mosel
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Bernkastel
Burg Cochem
Saar
Ruwertal
Obermosel
Moseltor
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Soil in Mosel
Blue Slate - Devonian
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What does the slate soils in Mosel allow?
allows the grapes/vines to ripen in a region where the temperature is 49 degrees and is colder than a grapes ideal temperature
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Goldtropfchen
droplets of gold
Piesports greatest vineyard
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Goldtropfchen producers
Reinhold Haart
| Reichsgraff von Kasselstatt
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How does Saar Valley's climate compare to Mittelmosel
Despite its more southerly location, it is cooler due to a higher altitude
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Exceptional vintages for Saar wines
hot years such as 2003 and 2005
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Greatest grower in Saar
Egon Muller
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2 exemplary vineyards along the Ruwer
Both are monopoles:
- Maximin Grunhauser Abtsberg (part of a trio of monopoles owned by the von Schubert-Grunhaus estate)
- Eitelsbacher Karthauserhofberg, owned by Karthauserhof
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Burg Cochem's alternate name
Terrassenmosel, as the narrowing river and intensely steep slopes make terraced vineyards necessary
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Dominant grape of Obermosel and Moseltor
Elbling
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2 major Rheingau estates
Kloster Eberbach
| Schloss Johannisberg
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Center of German viticultural research
Geisenheim in Rheingau
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Main grape of Rheingau
Riesling, 80% of vineyard acreage
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Why does Rheingau have less crossings?
Perfectly suited to Riesling, no need for heartier crosses
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Rheingau's bereich
Johannisberg
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What provides warmth to the extreme slopes in Germany?
The rivers
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Unique soil to Rheingau
red slate
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Difference in Riesling profile between Mosel & Rheingau
Rheingau - typically fuller body and more concentrated yet acidity can be bracing
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What accounts for more than half of Rheingau Riesling production?
Dry wines
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What does Rheingau have more of than any other anbaugebiet?
more Erste Lage sites via the VDP
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Type of bottle for Rheingau Riesling
flute shaped brown bottle - Rheingauer Flote
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Mosel bottle
green glass
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Rheingau's center for red wine production
Assmannshausen
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Grape of Assmannshausen
Spatburgunder
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Best Pinot Noir in Assmannshausen
Hollenberg vineyard
| August Kesseler, finest grower
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How and where were Spatlese & Auslese discovered?
Schloss Johannisberg
| by successfully harnessing botrytis in the late 18th century
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Keldrich famous producer
Robert Weil, whose holdings in the Grafenberg vineyard are the source are the source of outstanding sweet wines especially at Auslese level and above
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Where does the nickname Hock come from?
vineyards of Hochheim
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Where is Rheinhessen?
directly south of Rheingau
Bordered by the Rhine to the north and east, the Nahe to the West, and the Pfalz to the South
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Where is the German Wine Institute?
Mainz at Rheinhessen
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Which anbaugebiet has the most land dedicated to vines
Rheinhessen
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Most planted grape in Rheinhessen
Riesling as of 2013, previously Muller-Thurgau
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Original region for Liebfraumilch
Rheinhessen
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Most precious sector of the Rheinterrasse
Roter Hang
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Most expensive wine on Titanic's wine list
Niersteiner Pettenthal
| Riesling
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Major producer in the Roter Hang
Gunderloch
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Where is the most acreage devoted to Silvaner?
Rheinhessen, even more than Franken
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Germany's most expensive and elusive dry bottling of Riesling
micro-production "G-Max" which is from an undisclosed site in Keller's portfolio
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Location of Weingut Keller
Florsheim-Dalsheim
| Rheinhessen
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What lower's public opinion of Rheinhessen
Blue Nun & Liebfraumilch
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English name for Pfalz
Palatinate
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Name of Pfalz until 1992
Rheinpfalz
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What is Pfalz a natural continuation of?
France's Alsace, which borders to the South
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Name for the Vosges Mountains in Pfalz
Haardt Hills, since they rarely rise to heights of more than 500 to 600 meters on this side of the mountain
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Vineyard in Germany & France
Schweigen's Fredrich Baker, one of Germany's most esteemed producers of Spatburgunder
Kammerberg Grosse Lage vineyard
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Pfalz's warmest and most exceptional vineyard site
Grosse Lage Kirchenstuck
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How does Pfalz Riesling compare?
More full-bodied and almost invariably dry
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Most recognizable estates in Mittelhaardt in Pfalz
3 Bs
- Basserman-Jordan
- von Buhl
- Burklin-Wolf
-Muller-Catoir
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Most well-known expensive wines of the Nahe
Donnhoff, especially those sourced from his monopole Oberhauser Brucke and Hermannshohle in Niederhausen
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Nahe's finest site
Niederhausen
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World's most northerly wine region dedicated to red wine production
Ahr
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What shelters the Ahr from cold winds
Eifel Mountains
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Only bereich of Ahr
Walporzheim-Ahrtal
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Top producers of Ahr
Meyer-Nakel
| Kreuzberg
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What does Franken produce a lot of?
Beer, Franken and Bavaria overlap
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Main grape of Franken
Silvaner
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Style of Silvaner in Franken
smoky, full, mineral-tinged dry white wines
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Old nickname for Frankisch wine
Steinwein
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Bottle of Franken
Squat, flask-shaped bocksbeutel
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Fruhburgunder
early-ripening strain of Pinot Noir
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Mittelrhein wine style
80% trocken or halbtrocken
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Producers in Mittelrhein
Hahn Grosse Lage, a monopole of Toni Jost in Bacharach
| Matthias Muller
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Main grapes of Baden and Wurttemberg
mostly red - too hot for Riesling
Spatburgunder
Schwarzriesling - Wurttemberg
Lemberger (Blaufrankisch)
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Rose styles in Baden & Wurttemberg
Baden - Weissherbst
| Wurttemberg - Schillerwein
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Schillerwein
style of rose produced by distilling red and white grapes together
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English name for Sachsen
Saxony
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Germany's northernmost winegrowing Region
Saale-Unstrut
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Main grapes of Sachsen & Saale-Unstrut
Muller-Thurgau - most widely planted
Weissburgunder
Goldriesling - Sachsen
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Goldriesling
Aromatic crossing developed in Alsace
