Rheingau (Germany)

Question 1

President of Charta

Answer 1

Bernhard Breuer (of the George Breuer estate in Rudesheim)

Question 2

Soil types of the Rheingau

Answer 2

Upper slope dominated by slate

Lower slope closer to the water contain a mixture of clay, loess, alluvial sand, and red slate

Question 3

Rheingauer Flote

Answer 3

A traditional flute shaped brown bottle sometimes used to bottle Riesling in the Rheingau

Question 4

The village of Assmannshausen

Answer 4

Western end of the Rheingau, maintains a majority of the regions Spatburgunder

Best wine from the Hollenberg Vineyard

Question 5

Who invented Auslese wines in 1775?

Answer 5

Schloss Johannisberg

Question 6

Who pioneered glass bottling in 1700’s?

Answer 6

Schloss Johannisberg and Schloss Schonborn

Question 7

The OG’s of the Rheingau

Answer 7

Schloss Johannisberg (1100’s) and Kloster Erbach (1136)

Question 8

Principal growers based in Hattenheim

Answer 8

Schloss Schonborn and Langwerth von Simmern

Question 8

The premier vineyards of Hallgarten

Answer 8

Jungfer and Schonhell

Also the home of Kloster Eberbach

Question 9

Kiedrich

Answer 9

A hill village with the Grafenberg vineyard. Famous for the wines of Robert Weil, sweet wines especially at the Auslese level and above

Question 10

The village of Hochheim

Answer 10

An eastern segment of the Rheingau

Kirchenstuck is the village’s finest vineyard, and Franz Kunstler is the domaine to watch