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Which region is Dönnhoff based in Germany?

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Nahe.

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Which region is Joh Jos Prum located in Germany?

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Mosel

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Which region Dr Hans Von Müller located in Germany?

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Mosel

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Which parallel (latitude) are most of Germany’s vineyards located?

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The northerly winemaking regions of Germany straddle the 50th parallel and are amongst the world’s coolest vineyards.

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What is the German word for vineyard?

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Einzellagen

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Where is the famous Kloster Eberbach monastery located?

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The Cistercians of Burgundy founded the famous Kloster Eberbach monastery in the Rheingau in 1136, where they amassed the largest vineyard holdings in Europe by the end of the Middle Ages, with over 700 acres of vines. The walled Steinberg vineyard, an ortsteil within the commune of Hattenheim, was the monks’ centerpiece and remains wholly intact today—an alleinbesitz (monopole) of Kloster Eberbach for over eight centuries.

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Which latitude do most of the wine regions in Germany surround?

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Most vineyards are at the 49-degree latitude or higher

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What is the most planted grape in Germany?

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Riesling

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What is the name of the famous walled vineyard at the Kloster Eberbach monastery within the commune of Hattenheim?

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The walled Steinberg vineyard, an ortsteil within the commune of Hattenheim, was the monks’ centerpiece and remains wholly intact today—an alleinbesitz (monopole) of Kloster Eberbach for over eight centuries.

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What is the German word for monopole?

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Alleinbesitz

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Which producer is credited with the “discovery” of Spätlese harvesting? Where are they located?

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The “discovery” of Spätlese harvesting dates to 1775, when harvesters at Schloss Johannisberg in the Rheingau found that, despite their appearance, grapes afflicted with edelfäule (noble rot) made pretty good wine. The estate followed with the introduction of the Auslese category in 1787 and the first Eiswein in 1858.

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Which producer is credited with creating the first Eiswein? Where are they located?

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The “discovery” of Spätlese harvesting dates to 1775, when harvesters at Schloss Johannisberg in the Rheingau found that, despite their appearance, grapes afflicted with edelfäule (noble rot) made pretty good wine. The estate followed with the introduction of the Auslese category in 1787 and the first Eiswein in 1858.

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Where is Schloss Johannisberg located?

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Schloss Johannisberg is located in the Rheingau

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Name 3 producers located in the Rheingau

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Schloss Johannisberg

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What are the most planted white and red varietals?

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Riesling and Spätburgunder

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What happened with the “discovery” of Spätlese harvesting? Where is the producer located?

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The “discovery” of Spätlese harvesting dates to 1775, when harvesters at Schloss Johannisberg in the Rheingau found that, despite their appearance, grapes afflicted with edelfäule (noble rot) made pretty good wine.

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What were the major effects of the German Wine Law of 1971?

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Organizing 30,000+ vineyards into 2,600 registered vineyards with a min 5 hectares
Only exception is Doctor vineyard in Bernkastel (three proprietors shrunk boundaries to 8 acres in 1984)

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What is an Ortsteil?

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Part of a village or town

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What is Liebfraumilch?

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Gross wine usually made from

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What is the Öchsle Scale used for?

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Used to determine the prädikat level is determined by the level of sugars in the grape at harvest, measured by degrees

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What are the 13 designated regions for PDO wine called in Germany?

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Anbaugebiete

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What does Anbaugebiete mean in German?

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It refers to the 13 designated regions for PDO wine

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Where is the Scharzhofberg vineyard located? Which famous producer owns parels here?

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Egon Müller, who owns single-stake parcels in the Mosel’s Saar Valley historic Scharzhofberg vineyard

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What happened with the 2012 revision of German wine law?

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The VDP adopted the Charta’s core belief in the quality and emphasis on terroir and vineyard site as a measure of quality, not their sugar level at harvest. The VDP now distinguishes quality based on regional wines, village-specific wines, Premier Cru vineyards and Grand Cru vineyards, because the place of origin makes great wines great.

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What happened in the 1971 German law revision?

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The law revision condensed 30,000+ vineyards into 2,600 registered vineyards with a minimum 5 hectares with 3 exceptions.

New quality classification and production laws were created to match those set forth by the
European Union, including the category of QbA, for which chaptalization is legal.

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When was the VDP formed?

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1910

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What is the EU Quality system equivalent of Landwein?

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PGI

28
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What is the EU Quality system equivalent of ‘Prädikatswein’?

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PDO

29
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What does “GG” mean on a German wine bottle? Is the wine dry or sweet?

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Grosses Gewächs. Wine is dry

30
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What is the main grape in Obermosel and Moseltor bereich?

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Ebling

31
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What does bereich mean?

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District

32
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What is Germany’s oldest winemaking region?

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Mosel is Germany’s oldest winemaking region

33
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Which region is the largest producer of Riesling?

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Pfalz

34
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What is the German term for Pinot Blanc?

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Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc)

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What is the German term for Pinot Gris?

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Grauburgunder (Pinot Gris)

36
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What is the German term for Pinot Noir?

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Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir)

37
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What is Grauburgunder?

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Pinot Gris

38
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What is Weissburgunder?

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Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc)

39
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What is the extension of the Vosges Mountains called in the Pfalz?

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Haardt Hills

40
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What is another term for the Pfalz region?

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Known to English-speakers as the Palatinate - It wasn’t officially named the Rheinpfalz until 1992

41
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Historically, what is the name of the sub-region in the Pfalz where most of the quality vineyards are located?

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Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse

42
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What is the name of Germany’s smallest anbaugebiete?

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Hessische-Bergstrasse

43
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What is the name of Germany’s northernmost winegrowing region?

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Saale-Unstrut

44
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What ABV do most Mosel wines top out at?

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8% ABV

45
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What is the most important Grape in Franken?

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Müller-Thurgau. Today, Müller-Thurgau is the most widely planted grape variety in Franken, followed by Silvaner, with Bacchus and Kerner also successfully cultivated.

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What is the name of the bottle that wines from Franken are traditionally bottled in?

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Traditionally, the wines of Franken are bottled in the squat, flask-shaped bocksbeutel.

47
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What is a bocksbeutel?

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Traditionally, the wines of Franken are bottled in the squat, flask-shaped bocksbeutel.

48
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What is the most important grape in Franken and what is the name of the vessel used to bottle it?

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Müller-Thurgau. Traditionally, the wines of Franken are bottled in the squat, flask-shaped bocksbeutel.

49
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What is the term for Grand Cru in Germany?

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Grosses Lage

50
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What is the term for Premier Cru in Burgundy?

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Erste Lage

51
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What is the name for a village wine in Germany?

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Orts Lage

52
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What does it mean when a wine has “GG” on it?

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It means Grosses Gëwach or “Great Growth” and it is a dry wine from a Grosses Lage. It is only sweet if it has a Pradokat level on it

53
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What does the term Liebfraumilch mean? What is the most famous?

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Milk of our blessed lady. Blue nun.

54
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What is the name for a “Sundial” vineyard in the Mittelmosel?

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Sonnenuhr

55
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What is Hock? Where in Germany is Hock from?

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The British name for Rhine wine

56
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Where is Dr Loosen based?

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The Mosel

57
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What is Germany’s biggest wine region?

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Rheinhessen

58
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Where is Keller based?

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Rheinhessen

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