Rheingau

Question 1

Rheingau Bereiche

Answer 1

Johannisberg

Question 2

Important Einzellagen in Assmannshausen

Answer 2

Höllenberg

Question 3

Important Einzellagen in Rüdesheim

Answer 3

Berg Roseneck
Berg Rottland
Berg Schlossberg

Question 4

Where is Spätburgunder most famously found in the Rheingau?

Answer 4

Assmannshausen

Question 5

What mountain range provides protection to the north of the Rheingau?

Answer 5

The western Taunus range

Question 6

Two moderating factors in the Rheingau

Answer 6

• Taunus range to the North

- The Rhine river - reflection and retains humidity/warmth - mitigates temperature swings

Question 7

Soil of Upper Rheingau and Mainz Basin

Answer 7

sedimentary marl, gravels, sands, loams, clays, mostly covered by loess

Question 8

What is the Mainz Basin

Answer 8

Upper Rheingau and area around Hockheim, Wicker, Flörsheim

Question 9

Soil of Lower Rheingau

Answer 9

Devonian sandstone, quartzite, shale

Question 10

Two most influential monasteries in Rheingau

Answer 10

Kloster Eberbach (Cistercian)
-used term Cabinet to refer to high quality for the 1st time in 1712

Kloster Johannisberg (Benedictine)
-planted "rissilng" in most of almost 300k new vines

Question 11

First Spätlese bottling

Answer 11

Schloss Johannisberg in 1775

Question 12

First Auslese bottling

Answer 12

Schloss Johannisberg in 1787

Question 13

Riesling “pioneers” who recovered quality after the poor vintages in 1980’s

Answer 13

Bernhard Breuer (Rüdesheim)
Wilhelm Weil (Kiedrich)
Gunther Künstler (Hockheim)
Peter Jakob Kühn (Ostrich)

Question 14

What is Charta?

Answer 14

Association founded in 1984

Response to 1971 Wine Law

Goals:

• promote more stringent quality guidelines than 1971 law
• Define the Rheingau’s great vineyard sites
• Elevate status of dry Rheingau rieslings

Question 15

Erstes Gewächs

Answer 15

Rheingau Winegrowers Association classified first-quality growth vineyards

Maps put forth in 1999

Question 16

Criteria for Erstes Gewächs

Answer 16

• Stringent selection
• Max yield 50 hectoliters/hectare
• Manual harvesting
• Riesling or Spätburgunder only
• Released Sept 1 year after harvest

Question 17

<p>What does the black stripe at the bottom of this label indicate</p>

Answer 17

<p>Erstes Gewächs</p>

Question 18

Where is the steepest slope in the Rheingau?

Answer 18

Berg Schlossberg in Rüdesheim (70 degree)

Question 19

Best producer of Spätburgunder in Höllenburg

Answer 19

August Kesseler

Question 20

Important Einzellagen in Geisenheim

Answer 20

Schloss Johannisberg

Question 21

Important Einzellagen in Johannisberg

Answer 21

Hölle

Question 22

Important Einzellagen in Winkel

Answer 22

Schloss Vollrads, Jesuitengarten, Hasensprung

Question 23

Important Einzellagen in Hattenheim

Answer 23

Pfaffenberg (monopole of Schloss Schonborn), Mannberg, Steinberg

Question 24

Important Einzellagen in Hallgarten

Answer 24

Schönhell, Jungfer

Question 25

Important Einzellagen in Erbach

Answer 25

Marcobrunn

Question 26

Important Einzellagen in Kiedrich

Answer 26

Gräfenberg

Question 27

Important Einzellagen in Eltville

Answer 27

Sonnenberg

Question 28

Important Einzellagen in Hochheim am Main

Answer 28

Hölle, Kirchenstück

Question 29

What is Hoch?

Answer 29

Nickname for Rhine riesling, based on village Hochheim

Question 30

What is important about Geisenheim?

Answer 30

Center of German viticultural research, developed many crossings, more popular in Rheinhessen

Question 31

What is Rheingauer Flöte

Answer 31

A traditional flute-shaped brown bottle, sometimes used to bottle Riesling in the Rheingau, whereas the Mosel uses green glass

Question 32

Two notable producers in Hattenheim

Answer 32

Schloss Schönborn and Langwerth von Simmern

Question 33

What is the minimum Prädikat ripeness in Öchsle for white grapes in the Rheingau

Answer 33

Kabinett -       75°	
Spätlese -      85°	
Auslese -       100°	
BA/Eiswein -  125°	
TBA -             150°

Question 34

What parallel runs through the Rheingau?

Answer 34

50th