Germany - Rheingau Flashcards
What kind of soil is prized in the rheingau?
red slate
What are the primary grapes of the Rheingau
Riesling & Spatburgunder
How many Bereich & Einzellagen does the Rheingau have?
1 bereich (Johannisberg) & 120 Einzellagen
What is the Nahe known for?
Quality white wines from south facing slopes of its East-West valley of the Nahe tributary.
What is Rheinhessen known for?
Fertile, flat, high production riesling, muller thurgau, & dornfelder.
What is Pfalz known for?
Being named after Palatinum (Latin for Palace), warm, sunny summers, and producing a lot of bulk wine of riesling, muller thurgau. grauburgunder, dornfelder, spatburgunder.
What is Franken known for?
making a bit of table wine from early-ripening varieties like muller thurgau & silvaner, bottled in bocksbeutels
What is Hessische Bergstrasse known for?
Being named after Hessian Mountain Road, being a small region that produces mostly white, especially riesling.
What is Wurttemberg known for?
Red grape plantings of Trollinger, Schwarzriesling (meunier), & Lemberger along the Necker river valley & lake constance. More rain & humidity than other german wine regions.
What is Baden known for?
The Kaiserstuhl bereich, germany’s warmest wine appellation, being the third biggest volume producer, producing a ton of spatburgunder, as well as muller thurgau & grauburgunder. Famous for spatburgunder weissherbst.
What is Ahr known for?
the northernmost and smallest red-wine dominant appellation, spatburgunder, dornfelder, portugieser. steep, terraced vineyards full of graywake & slate, producing higher tannin reds with prominent oak-derived spice.
What is the mittelrhein known for?
small production riesling and castels
