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Rheingau Flashcards

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What styles of wine are made in the Rheingau?

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Sweet to dry white
Rosé
Dry red
Sekt

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What are the major & minor grapes of the Rheingau?

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Same as in Mosel!
Riesling, Spätburgunder, Muller-Thurgau

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What are the Rheingau’s important geographical features?

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The Rhine river and its tributary Main
The Tanus Mountains to the North

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What are the Rheingau’s important landmarks?

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Geisenheim Wine Institute
Kloster Eberbach
Schloss Johanisberg

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What is the Rheingau’s climate?

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True continental with slight rain shadow from Tanus mountains

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What are the vineyard conditions in the Rheingau?

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South-facing slopes with good drainage on the North bank of the river.

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What are the soils of the Rheingau?

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Upper slope: Slate
Lower slope: Red slate with clay, loess, alluvial sand

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Give a brief history of the Rheingau

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1136: Cistercian monks from Burgundy found Kloster Eberbach
1402: First evidence of Riesling plantings
1700s: Vines were relegated to infertile river valley slopes, inadvertently improving their quality
1775: First Spãtlese grapes harvested & vinified by Schloss Jo
1787: First Aüslese grapes harvest & vinified by Schloss Jo
1858: First Eiswein grapes harvested & vinified by Schloss Jo
1872: Geisenheim Wine Institute founded in Rüdesheim to go on to create many crossings, like Muller-Thurgau
Bernhard Breuer of George Breuer Wines spearheads Charta’s Erstes Gewächs movement for qualiity dry riesling

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What are the styles of excellent Rheingau wines?
How do they differ from Mosel wines?

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Focus on dry riesling or concentrated examples of Prädikat wines, like Schloss Johannisberg; tend to be drier & higher alcohol with more concentration than those of mosel.

Expensive pinot aged in new french oak, a la August Kessler in Assmannhausen; tends to be fuller bodied and more concentrated than mosel

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Is Estate Bottling important in the Rheingau?

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Yes, extremely, as reflected by their wine’s focus on terroir.

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What 2 gemeinden bookend the Rheingau?

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Lorch & Hockheim

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12
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How many bereich in Rheingau?

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1! Johannisberg

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What are the 11 key Gemeinden of the Rheingau?

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Assmannshausen
Rudesheim
Geisenheim
Johannisberg
Winkel
Hattenheim
Hallgarten
Erbach
Kiedrich
Eltville
Hocheim am Main

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What is the key Einzellagen of Assmannshausen?

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Höllenberg

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What are the key Einzellagen of Rüdesheim?

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Berg Roseneck, Berg Rottland, Berg Schlossberg

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What is the key Einzellagen of Geisenheim?

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Schloss Johannisberg

17
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What is the key Einzellagen of Johannisberg?

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Hölle

18
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What are the key Einzellagen of Winkle?

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Schloss Volrads, Jesuitgarten, Hasensprung

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What are the key Einzellagen of Hallgarten?

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Schönhell, Jungfer

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What are the key Einzellagen of Hattenheim?

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Pfaffenberg, Mannberg, Steinberg

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What is Pfaffenberg?

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A Hattenheim monopole of Schloss Schonborne

22
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What is the key Einzellagen of Erbach?

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Marcobrunn

23
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What is the key Einzellagen of Kiedrich

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Gräfenberg

24
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What is the key Einzellagen of Eltville?

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Sonnenberg

25
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What are the key Einzellagen of Hocheim am Main?

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Höle, Kirchenstück

26
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How dominant is Riesling in Rheingau?

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Moreso there than anywhere else.
80% of plantings!

27
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What is a Rheingauer Flöte?

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The brown flute bottles popular in the Rheingau, in contrast to the Mosel’s green flutes.

28
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In what Gemeinden can you find Kloster Eberbach?

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Hallgarten!

29
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Which Gemeinden is best known for Pinot Noir? Name the key Einzellagen & producer

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August Kessler, in Höllenberg, in Assmannshausen

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