Germany

Question 1

The minimum actual alcohol content required for German Spätlese

Answer 1

7%

Question 2

What does Edelfäule indicate

Answer 2

Botrytis cinerea

Question 3

Prädikat Levels

Answer 3

Kabinett 70-85°

Spätlese 80-95°

Auslese 88-105°

Beerenauslese 110-128°

Trockenbeerenauslese 150-154°

Eiswein 110-128°

Question 4

Pfalz

Answer 4

Geographically contiguous with Alsace, protected by the Haardt hills (northern extension of the Vosges Mtns).

Continental climate.

Complex soil types.

Primary varietals - Riesling, Dornfelder, Müller Thurgau, Portugieser, Spätburgunder, Grauburgunder, Weissburgunder, Kerner

Question 5

Bocksbuetel

Answer 5

Squat, plump flagon allowed only in Franken. Translates to ‘goat scrotum.’

Question 6

Ahr - Top varietals and producers

Answer 6

Spatburgunder

Kreuzberg

JJ Adeneuer

Meyer-Nakel

Jean Stodden

Question 7

Einzellage

Answer 7

A German term for an individual vineyard site. The name of these vineyards may only be included on the label of QbA and QmP wines. Currently there are just over 2600.

Question 8

Anbaugebiete most associated with Pinot Noir

Answer 8

Ahr

Question 9

Friedrich Becker, one of Germany’s most esteemed producers of Spätburgunder, has to cross the border into sovereign France to work his holdings where?

Answer 9

Kammerberg Grosse Lage vineyard.

Question 10

Grosses Gewächs

Answer 10

Grosse Gewächs wines are the product of hand-harvested single vineyards with a maximum yield of 50 hl/ha.

Minimum must weight is equivalent to Spätlese; Grosses Gewächs wines are legally considered trocken, and may not contain more than 9 g/l of residual sugar.

Grape varieties vary according to each anbaugebiet, but the emphasis is on Riesling (55% of VDP estate vineyards.)

White wines may not be released before September 1 of the year following the harvest; Red wines receive an additional year of aging.

Question 11

Rheingau mountain range

Answer 11

Taunus Mountains The mountains force the Rhine west for 20 miles creating a south-facing bank with thick forests to block the north wind.

Question 12

Trittenheim, Piesport, Brauneberg, Bernkastel-Kues, Graach-an-der-Mosel, Wehlen, Zeltingen, Ürzig, and Erden are all a part of which Bereich?

Answer 12

Bernkastel, Mosel

Question 13

A German term for estate bottled wine

Answer 13

Gutsabfüllung

Question 14

Required minimum must weights for Eiswein are equivalent to:

Answer 14

Beerenauslese 110-128°

Question 15

Mosel

Answer 15

Oldest region for wine in Germany.

Located on the 49th Parallel

Climate is cold continental moderated by the Mosel.

Steep, south-facing vineyards with a porous slate soil.

Primary varietals - Riesling, Müller-Thurgau, Elbling, Spätburgunder.

Mosel is known for lower alcohol Riesling (8%) with high acidity.

Question 16

Kirchenstück, Freundstück, Pechstein, Ungeheuer, Jesuitengarten - anbaugebiete

Answer 16

Forst, Pfalz

Question 17

Grosslage

Answer 17

A German term for a group of individual vineyard sites, or einzellagen. There are 167 currently.

Question 18

Anbaugebiete

Answer 18

Any of the thirteen specific wine producing regions recognised under German wine law Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete.

Question 19

Tributaries of the Mosel with vineyards of their own

Answer 19

Saar, Ruwar

Question 20

Rheingau

Answer 20

Region where many historic innovations in German winemaking took place. Like Burgundy, Cistercian monks brought Pinot here and this was the first German region to be demarcated. South of the Mosel on the Rhine river. Continental climate protected by the Taunus Mountains, warmer than the Rheinheissen to the south. Primary varietals - Riesling, Spätburgunder, Müller-Thurgau.

Question 21

Kaiserstuhl

Answer 21

Emperor’s Throne the extinct volcano around which the best vineyards of Baden are found.

Question 22

VDP Vineyard Heirachy

Answer 22

Grosses Lage (similar to Grand Cru) Erste Lage (similar to Premier Cru) Ortswein - village wine Gustwein - basic wine

Question 23

Gemeinde

Answer 23

Village name

Question 24

Goldtröpfchen - gemeinden, anbaugebiete

Answer 24

Piesport, Mosel

Question 25

Bereiche

Answer 25

A district within an anbaugebiete. There are 39.

Question 26

Müller-Thurgau parents

Answer 26

Riesling, Madeleine Royale

Question 27

Anbaugebiete with the most hectares of Spätburgunder planted

Answer 27

Baden

Question 28

Oechsle

Answer 28

ERKS-leh German measure of ripeness based on the weight of the grape must. Regional requirements vary.

Question 29

VDP

Answer 29

Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter Founded in 1910, the VDP is a national German association of producers committed to top quality wine production.

Question 30

Second most planted red grape in Germany

Answer 30

Dornfelder

Question 31

Gunderloch is produced where?

Answer 31

Rothenberg in the Rheinhessen

Question 32

German Anbaugebiete located closest to the Czech border

Answer 32

Sachsen

Question 33

Rheinhessen

Answer 33

• Large, sprawling, just south of Rheingau
• Contential climate with flat, fertile farmland
• Soil - red sandstone with slate
• Riesling, Müller-Thurgau, Dornfelder

Question 34

Eltville is in what region?

Answer 34

Rheingau

Sonnenberg is made in this village

Question 35

Message in a Bottle Group

Answer 35

Twenty young winemakers in the Rheinhessen, colleagues and friends, who created a network in 2002 to demonstrate the region’s outstanding ability to create beautiful dry Riesling.

Two of the twenty - Philipp Wittmann and Klaus-Peter Keller