Mosel Flashcards
What are the 6 Bereiche of Mosel from SW to NE?
Moseltor, Obermosel, Saar, Ruwertal, Bernkastel, Berg Cochem
Which is the largest Bereiche? What towns does it stretch between?
Berncastel. Between Trier & Zell
What is another name for the Bernkastel Bereich?
Mittelmosel
What’s the most important gemeinden in Bernkastel? What are its most important einzellagen?
Bernkastel-Kues: Doctor & Lay
What is the major soil type of the Mittelmosel? Is there a secondary?
Blue Devonian Slate is dominant, though there’s more red Devonian slate upriver near Erden.
What is Mosel’s annual average temperature? What is ideal for grapes? What explains this discrepency?
49F, vs 57F
Moderating factors include heat-absorbing blue slate soils, light and heat reflection from the mosel, steep slopes and southern aspects.
Why are all good Mosel rieslings hand-harvested?
Best sites demand hand harvesting because steep slopes are necessary to ripen noble riesling.
What are the 2 common mosel grosselagen? How are their wines?
Badstube & Michelsberg. Badstube sources grapes from around Bernkastel-Kues and can be a good value. Michelsberg is a commercially produced insult to Piesport.
Where does the Mosel originate? Where does it flow into the Rhine?
The Vosges mountains in France; At Koblenz (lower Mosel)
What are the Bereichs of Mosel from SW to NW
Moseltor, Obermosel, Saar, Rewertal, Bernkastel,
Burg-Cochem
What is Burg-Cochem often referred to? Why?
Either the lower mosel or the “terraced” Mosel. It’s home to the world’s steepest vineyard, Bremmer Calmont, which has vines planted at 60 degree gradients.
Which Bereich is Brauneberg in? What are its important einzellagen?
Bernkastel; Juffer & Juffer Sonnenuhr (Sundial)
Which Bereich is Erden in? What are its important einzellagen? What are its soils?
Bernkastel; Prälat (Mosel’s warmest vineyard & home to excellent Dr. Loosen wines) & Treppchen (the little staircase)
Iron-rich red slate & clay
Which Bereich is Graach an der Mosel in? What are its important einzellagen?
Bernkastel; Domprobts, Josephshöfer
What is Josephshöfer?
A monopole of Reichsgraff von Kesselstatt, in Graach an der Mosel, in Bernkastel.
What Bereich is Ürzig in? What are its important einzellagen? What is its soil?
Bernkastel; Würzgarten (spice garden).
Red volcanic sandstone - exotic riesling
What bereich is Whalen in? What are its important einzellagen?
Bernkastel; Sonnenuher (sundial)
Where is the upper Mosel? What’s its most important city there? What important Bereichs are there?
South West Mosel; Saar & Ruwertal
What are the important gemeinden in Saar? What are their important einzellagen?
Wiltengen & Saarburg
Wiltengen: Scharzhoffberger
Saarburg: Rausche
What are the important gemeinden in Ruwertal? What are their important einzellagen?
Eitelsbach & Mertesdorf
Eitelsbach: Karthäuserhofberg
Mertesdorf: Abtsberg, Herrenberg, Bruderberg
What important mountain ranges act as slight rain shadows in the Mosel?
The Vosges to the Southwest & Eifel to the North
Which bereich is Piesport in? What are its most important einzellagen?
Bernkastel; Goldtröpchen “droplets of gold”, Domherr
What is the southernmost gemeinden in Bernkastel? What are its most important einzellagen?
Trittenheim; Apotheke
What are three important properties of slate soils?
Well-draining (loose as a topsoil), and heat-retaining/radiating, relatively low-nutrient, restricting yields and increasing quality
What grapes can be GG here?
Only riesling
What’s planted in Mosel?
90% white wine: 85% riesling, 10% Müller-Thurgau, 5% Elbling
10% red wine: spätbergunder.
What kind of training is common in Mosel? Why?
High, staked, guyout trained vines
High canopy managment maximizes air circulation and allows for maximum sun exposure & grape ripeness
Why is riesling Mosel’s signature grape?
It’s cold-hardy, with hard wood, tolerant of winter freeze
Late budding, avoiding common spring frosts
Mid-to-late ripening, allows for freedom of expression
