Germany : Mosel, Rheingau, Pfalz, Rheinhessen Flashcards
Which emperor overturned Domitian’s 92 AD ban on new vineyard plantings?
Emperor Probus at the end of the 3rd Century.
What does einzellagen mean?
Vineyards
Which anbaugebiete is the Kloster Eberbach monastery?
Rheingau
Who founded the Kloster Eberbach monastery and when?
The Cistercian monks in 1136
What does alleinbesitz mean?
Monopole
Which commune in the Rheingau is the famed walled Steinberg vineyard?
Hattenheim
What was the minimum size of registered vineyards (with some exceptions) mandated by the 1971 German Wine Law?
5 hectares
What does edelfäule mean?
Noble Rot
Where is the Geiseheim Wine Institute located?
Rheingau, founded in 1872
What is the parentage of Muller-Thurgau?
Riesling x Madeleine Royale
What grape is usually used for Liebfraumilch? Is it put on the label?
Muller-Thurgau
It cannot carry a name on the label.
What does VDP stand for?
Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter
What are the main white grapes of Germany?
Riesling
Muller-Thurgau
Silvaner Grauburgunder (Pinot Gris) Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc) Kerner Bacchus
What are the main red grapes of Germany?
Spatburgunder
Dornfelder
Blauer Portugieser
Trollinger (aka Schiava)
Schwarzriesling (Pinot Meunier)
What is Weissherbst?
A saignée rosé wine made from a single variety and of at least QbA quality.
What are the two tiers of German quality wine?
Qualitatswein
Pradikatswein
What are the pradikat levels?
Kabinett Spatlese Auslese Beerenauslese Trockenbeerenauslese Eiswein
What are pradikat levels determined by?
The level of sugars in the grape at harvest, measured by degrees according to the Öschle scale.
What is the minimum abv for Pradikatswein?
7% (But only 5.5% for Beerenauslese, TBA, Eiswein)
Many of the country’s superb Grosses Gewachs dry wines are released as QbA (instead of pradikatswein).
True or False?
True
What is the Öschle range for each Prädikat level?
Kabinett 70-85 Spatlese 80-95 Auslese 88-105 Beerenauslese 110-128 Trockenbeerenauslese 150-154 Eiswein 110-128
Is chaptalization legal for QbA?
Yes
When was Charta founded and why was it formed?
1984 - formed to advance the classic, dry style of Rheingau Riesling.
Distinguished by an icon of three Roman arches, styled from the balcony of Graue Haus, in Winkel
Trocken wines are legally allowed to contain a maximum of how much residual sugar?
9 g/L
Grosses Gewachs are which style of wine?
Dry
What are the four tiers created by the VDP in 2012
Grosse Lage
Erste Lage
Ortswein
Gutswein
What are the maximum yields for each tier of the VDP Classification?
Grosse Lage “Grand Cru” max. 50 hl/ha
Erste Lage “Premier Cru” max. 60 hl/ha
Ortswein Village Wines max. 75 hl/ha
Gutswein Regional Wines max 75 hl/ha
The German Wine Institute at Mainz created a simplified hierarchy for drier styles of wine, debuting with the 2000 vintage: what were the new terms?
Classic and Selection were intended to replace the more cumbersome halbtrocken and trocken, respectively.
Classic wines with the German Wine Institute represent what type of wines?
Single varietal wines with a maximum rs of 15 g/L, show minimum alcohol content of 12% (11.5% in the Mosel), and omit any mention of a vineyard on the label.
Selection wines with the German Wine Institute represent what type of wines?
Single vineyard wines from a single variety, with a maximum rs of 9 g/L (12 allowed for Riesling). Yields are limited to 60 hl/ha, grapes are hand-harvested and wines may not be released prior to September 1 of the year following harvest.
What was the Mosel region known as prior to 2007?
Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
What is the Goldkapsel in the Mosel?
Its used almost exclusively by Mosel producers as a means of subverting the 1971 German wine law, which ruled that additional qualifications of the prädikat level, such as feine and hochfeine, could not be listed on the bottle.
What are the 6 bereiche of the Mosel?
Bernkastel Burg Cochem Saar Ruwertal Obermosel Moseltor
The Middle Mosel is primarily in which bereich?
Bernkastel
Trittenheim, Piesport, Brauneberg, Bernkastel-Kues, Graach-an-der-Mosel, Wehlen, Zeltingen, Ürzig and Erden are all in which bereich of which anbaugebiete?
Bernkastel
Mosel
What are the soils of the Middle Mosel and what do they contribute?
Dark blue Devonian Slate - Absorptive blue slate retains heat and the river reflects warmth onto the vines, allowing them to ripen in a region where the annual average temperature is 49 degrees F, 8 degrees colder than the grapevine’s ideal annual temperature.
What is Piesport’s greatest vineyard?
Goldtröpfchen
Which three vineyards feature sundials?
Juffer-Sonnenuhr
Wehlener Sonnenuhr
Zeltinger Sonnenuhr
Where is the famed Doctor vineyard?
Bernkastel-Kues
What is the dominant grape in the Obermosel and Moseltor bereiche in the Mosel?
Elbling
