History, Goegraphy, and Wine Law Flashcards
What is Hock?
A word used to indicate wines from Germany, specifically the Middle Rhine, in the 1800s
What was the effect of WWI on German viticulture?
Vineyard workers were fighting at the front. The loss of political privilege for the German nobility meant that many of the old aristocratic estates entered a period of slow decline. French and British boycotted German products and American markets closed due to prohibition, so exports plummeted.
What was the effect of WWII on the German wine trade?
Vineyards we’re bombed, the Jewish community was responsible for a large part of the wine merchant trade and they were driven out, international boycotts against German products commenced, and the county was cleaved in two
What style of wine from Germany became popular in the 1950s as the agricultural sector rebounded?
Liebfraumilch - the blue nun brand was very popular
What was the Flurbereinigung campaign?
It consolidated parcels of land divided by successive generations of inheritance.
Steep vineyard sites were levelled with construction waste and old terraces were eliminated so that workers could employ machines and increase production.
Müller-Thurgau was ascendant
What technology made sweet wine production in Germany easier and more commonplace? When did it come about?
Sterile Filtration
1950s
What does Natur indicate in German wine?
That the wine should be free of all additives including süssreserve and sulfur and unchaptalized
What was the goldkapsule developed in response to? What does it indicate?
With the 1971 wine law banned the use of terms that were historically used to indicate sweetness, so producers turned to code. The goldkapsule indicated a higher level of sweetness than indicated by the Prädiakat level.
What did the 1971 wine law do to vineyard size?
It set a minimum 5-hectare size for single vineyards, enlarging some sites to include lesser surrounding plots while eliminating others
What are Grosslagen?
Collective vineyard sites- a sort of catch all category that covers a huge swath of vineyards
List the Anbaugebiete of Germany
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Mittelrhein
Mosel
Nahe
Pfalz
Rheingau
Rheinhessen
Baden
Franken
Hessische-Bergstrasse
Württemberg
Saale-Unstrut
Sachsen
What were the categories created by the 1971 German wine law?
QbA- Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiet
QmP(a subset of QbA) - Qualitätswein mit Prädikat
Tafelwein (called Wein today)
How did the 1971 wine law alter the meaning of traditional terms such as Spätlese and Auslese?
It defined them based on ripeness levels at harvest rather than final sweetness. The new wine law also permitted the addition of süssreserve for wines of any category at up to 15% which further purged the Prädikate of the original meaning
Is Chaptalization allowed for QmP wines?
No
What is the AP number on a German wine?
Amtliche Prüfungsnummer
Consists of 5 sets of digits -
1. The location of the examination board
2. The village in which the wine was produced
3. The producer
4. The unique number of the bottling
5. The year in which the wine was tested
What did the 1982 update to the 1971 wine law introduce?
The category of Landwein (an IGP category today)
Eiswein as an independent Prädikat level
Which vineyards escaped the minimum 5-hectare mandate for single vineyards?
Forster Kirchenstück - Pfalz
Bernkastler Doctor - Middle Mosel
Kiedricher Turmberg- Rheingau
What categories introduced in 2000 were meant to replace the terms halbtrocken and trocken?
Classic and Selection
