Mosel

Question 1

List the bereiche of the Mosel from NE to SW

Answer 1

Burg Cochem
Bernkastel
Ruwertal
Saar
Obermosel
Moseltor

Question 2

What are the hills and the mountains of the Mosel?

Answer 2

Hunsrück hills
Eifel Mointains

Question 3

What was the Roman city that shows the earliest evidence of winemaking in the Mosel?

Answer 3

Trier

Question 4

What is the unique vine training system found in the Mosel?

Answer 4

The single post system - growers train vines upright, without wires, employing either a vertical cordon or two canes, wrapped in a characteristic heart-shaped bow

Question 5

Where does the Mosel river converge with the Rhine?

Answer 5

Koblenz

Question 6

How long is the typical growing season in the Mosel?
What is the average temperature?

Answer 6

100 days
50 degrees F / 10 degrees C

Question 7

What is the typical soil type of the Mosel?

Answer 7

Sandy with Devonian slate

Question 8

List 9 villages of Bernkastel in the Mosel

Answer 8

Graach
Erden
Piesport
Zeltingen
Whelen
Ürzig
Trittenheim
Bernkastel-Kues
Leiwen

Question 9

List 7 important vineyard sites in the Bernkastel bereiche

Answer 9

Bernkastler Doctor
Erdener Prälat
Whelener Sonnenuhr
Zeltinger Sonnenuhr
Graacher Himmelreich
Ürzinger Wurtzgarten
Peisporter Goldtröpfchen

Question 10

Where is the Uhlen vineyard?

Answer 10

In Winnengen in Berg Cochem in the Mosel

Question 11

What were Germany’s first 3 single vineyard PDOs? Who proposed them?

Answer 11

Blaufüsser Lay
Roth Lay
Laubach

Heymann-Löwenstein

Question 12

What is the ancient grape variety found in the Obermosel?

Answer 12

Elbing

Question 13

In which bereiche are Maximin Grünhaus and Karthauserhoff located?

Answer 13

The Ruwer

Question 14

In which village is Scharzhofberg?

Answer 14

Wiltingen in the Saar