Nahe, Rheinhessen, and Pfalz Flashcards
What is Germany’s largest wine growing anbaugebiet?
Rheinhessen
What are the bereiche of the Rheinhessen?
Bingen
Neirstien
Wonnegau
What is the quality wine growing region of the Rheinhessen?
Roter Hang - a hill of clay and weathered red sandstone between Nierstein and Nackenheim
What is the Rheinterrasse?
What famous vineyard sites lie within the Rheinterrasse?
A span of eastern exposures which extend South of Nierstein through the village of Oppenheim.
Pettenthal and Rothenberg
What village is the birthplace of Liebfraumilch?
Worms
What does Liebfraumilch translate to?
Our Lady’s Milk
What is the minimum RS for Liebfraumilch?
18 g/l
In which bereiche is Klaus-Peter Keller located?
Wonnegau
I’m which village are the famous vineyard sites of Kirchspiel, Morstein, and Brunnenhäuschen?
Westhofen
List 4 important producers of the Rheinhessen
Wittmann
Gunderloch (traditional)
Keller
Wagner-Stempel
What are the most planted red grapes of the Rheinhessen?
Dornfelder, Portugieser, Spätburgunder
Which anbaugebeit has the largest acreage of Riesling?
Pfalz
What are the Bereiche of the Pfalz?
Mittelhaardt-Duetsche-Weinstrasse
Südliche Weinstrasse
What geographic features does the Pfalz lie between?
The Haardt hills and the Rhine river
List 3 famous winemaking villages of the Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse
Kallstadt
Ungestein
Forst
Deidesheim
Ruppertsberg
Gimmeldingen