Germany & Austria Flashcards
Define anbaugebiet & identify common ones found in the market.
Anbaugebiet means area, there are 13 in total. Mosel, Rheingau, Rheinhessen, nahe, pfatlz.
State the 4 historic quality levels of German wine
Deutscher wine (formerly tafelwein), landwein, Qualitatswein bestimmer Anbaugebite (QbA), and Qualitatswein mit Pradikat (QmP).
State the 6 Prädikat levels for QmP wines from lowest to highest sugar levels
Kabinett, Spatlese, Auslese, beerenauslese, eiswein, trockenbeerenauslese.
Discuss the term Grosses Gewächs, Erstes Gewachs, and Erstes Lage.
Great growths, now used as a quality level of sorts for dry wines within the VDP classification. Must be trocken, spatlese level ripeness, unmanipulated, and hand harvested. Erstes Gewachs was used by the wines of the rheingau for wines of note and Erstes Lages was used to denote quality wines in the Mosel. Now all known as GG.
Define the terms Halbtrocken & Trocken & Feinherb & Sekt.
Half dry, dry, Off dry, and sparkling.
Identify the term for Estate Bottled in Germany.
Gutsabfullung.
Define the term Süssreserve
Sterilized grape juice added to an already vinified wine for sweetness.
State why wine can be made at 51° latitude & how they differ from Alsace.
Rainshadow effect from the haart mountains and valley hot pocket.
Identify at least 1 major village & vineyard & in the Mosel & Rheingau respectively.
In the Mosel, Piesporter and Goldtropfchen, Rheinhold Haart makes a 2007 Riesling. In the Rheingau, Schloss Johannisburg.
Name the grape for which Spätburgunder, Grauburgunder, Weissburgunder.
Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc.
Tell your guests about the Silvaner grape and its best growing region, in Bocksbeutel.
Silvaner is grown in Franken, in the goat scrotum bottles.
Tell your guests about the cross named Müller-Thurgau
Muller thurgau is a cross between riesling and madelein royale.
Define Liebfraumilch & state where it is commonly found
Mother’s milk, bland blended wine with lots of muller thurgau, silvaner, and riesling.
Explain the term edelfäule.
Botrytis.
Name any 1 anbaugebiet that is important for red wine
Ahr. Franken.
Explain the VDP system.
197 producers of quality, from grosse lage, erste lage, ortswein, gutswein.
Define Grosselage, Einzellage, Bereich.
Collection of vineyards. Einzellage is a single vineyard. Bereich is a district of villages and vineyards.
Name 2 white grapes and 2 red grapes of Austria.
Gruner Veltliner, Riesling. Zweigelt, Blaufrankish (lemburger), st. laurent.
Name 2 major regions and 2 sub-regions of Austria.
In Niederosterich has Kampstal, Krempstal. Burgenland has mittelburgenland and sudburgenland.
Define the terms Ausbruch and Strohwein.
Strohwein is the raisinated dried grapes. Ausbruch is when raisinated grape bunches are tight together and spatlese level juices break them up.
Name 3 grapes of Tokaji.
Furmint, harslevelu, muskatolly.
Explain the term puttonyos
Puttonyos are the small wood barrels where the grape must is kept. The number on a label of Tokaji dictates the sweetness.
Define the term Aszú, Eszencia, Aszú Eszencia and True Eszencia.
Aszu is the hungarian word for botrytis. Eszencia is the free run juices. Aszu Eszencia is 7-9 puttonymos. True eszencia is the free run raisinated juice fermented.
Describe the quality levels in Austria.
Districtus Austriae Controllatus, DAC, 9 in total in Austria.
