Rheinhessen Flashcards
Where are most quality wines produce in Rheinhessen and why?
Rheinterrasse/Nierstein
Western bank of Rhine, because of moderating influence and Eastern exposures protected from Frost and wind
Who produces G Max
Weingut Keller
Where is Weingut Keller located
Florsheim Dalsheim in Rheinhessen
Rheinhessen Gemeinden/Einzellage:
Nackenheim: Rothenberg
Neirstein: Hipping, Pettenthal
Oppenheim: Sacktrager
Westhofen: Morstein Kirschpiel
Dalsheim: Hubacker
Producers of Rheinhessen
Gunderloch
Seehof
Heyl zu Herrnsheim
Klaus and Hedwig Keller (Weingut Keller)
Wagner-Stempel
Wittmann
Silvaner producers in Rheinhessen
Gau-Algesheim
Weingut Keller
First, second and third most planted grapes in Rheinhessen
Riesling
Muller Thurgau
Dornfelder
Organizations of Rheinhessen devoted to quality wines
Message in a bottle (wonnegau)
Rheinhessen five
Vinovation
Maxime Herkunft Rheinhessen (70 growers, 2017)
Bereiches of Rheinhessen
Neirstein
Bingen
Wonnegau
Main producer of Dittelsheim (Pfalz)
Stefan Winter
Main producer of Siefersheim (Rheinhessen)
Daniel Wagner-Stempel
Producer of Hohen Sulzen, a wine producing village (Rheinhessen)
Olivier Spanier (Battenfeld Spanier)
Producer of Bechtheim? (Rheinhessen)
Jochen Dreissigacher
Germany’s most respected producer of Sparkling wine
Sekthaus Raumland
Roterhang is between these cities in Rheinhessen
Nackenheim and Nierstein
Best producers of Roter Hang
Gunderloch and Kuhling-Gillot
Where is Scharlachberg (Scarlet fever hill of Bingen) vineyard? (Rheinhessen)
Bingen, facing Rudesheim
Brudersberg in Nierstein (Rheinhessen) is an alleinbesitz of this producer
Heyl zu Herrnsheim
Glock is an alleinbesitz of this producer in Nierstein (Rheinhessen)
Domaine Oppenheim
Rheinhessen has most acreage under vine
26,582ha
First vintage of G Max
2001
Where is Phillipp Wittman located? (Rheinhessen)
Westhofen
Where and when was the first sparkling wine made in Germany
Wurttemberg 1826
Christian von Kesseler
When was Kaiser Wilhelms sekt tax
1902, remains today
1.02 per bottle
These three German Sekt producers are the biggest and use tank method
Henkell
Rotkappchen
Sohnlein-Brillant
These producers make profound riesling sekt
Matthieu Kaufmann (former cellar master at Bollinger) (Pfalz)
Reichstrat Von Buhl (Pfalz)
Most sekt is made from this grape subtype
Pinot Varieties
This Anbaugebeit is home to 1/4 of Germany’s land under vine
Rheinhessen
Rheinhessen is between these Anbaugebeits
South of Rheingau
North of Pfalz
East of Nahe
West of Hessische-Bergstrasse
What is the Rheinland-Pfalz state capital?
Mainz
What is rotliegendes?
Weathered Red Sandstone of the Roter Hang
The Roter Hang is within a larger span of Eastern Exposures in Rheinhessen called:
Rheinterrasse
In the Nierstein Bereich
Most expensive wine on the titanic
Niersteiner Riesling from Rheinhessen
Liebfraumilch was a specialty of this city
Worms
This collective site introduced in 1971 Rheinhessen came to markets in force, tarnishing the Rheinhessen name
Niersteiner Gutes Domtal
Where are Klaus-Peter (Weingut) Keller and Philipp Wittman located in Rheinhessen?
Wonnegau
(Florsheim-dalsheim is in wonnegau)
(Southern Bereiche of Rheinhessen)
Where are the vineyards:
Kirchspiel
Morstein
Brunnenhauschen
Rheinhessen in Westhofen
(Keller and Wittmann have parcels in them )
Where are the vineyards:
Bürgel
Hubacker
(Rheinhessen)
Florsheim-Dalsheim
(Keller has parcels in these vineyards)
1971 wine law allowed these anbaugebeits to produce liebfraumilch
Nahe
Pfalz
Rheingau
Rheinhessen
Liebfraumilch laws of 1971
Must be 70% of the following varieties: Riesling, Muller-Thurgau, Silvaner, Kerner
must have 18g/l RS
Varietal labeling not allowed
soil of the bereich of Wonnegau
(Rheinhessen)
Limestone and loess
Where is the fruit for Keller’s “G Max” sourced?
An undisclosed parcel in the bereich of Wonnegau
Where is Wagner-Stempel? (Rheinhessen)
Bereich of Bingen
Village of Siefersheim
Producers of Message in a Bottle:
Dry Riesling of Rheinhessen, two dozen producers
Keller, Wittmann, Wagner-Stempel, Kuhling-Gillot, Gunderloch
This producer owns 3/4 of Nackenheimer Rothenberg
Rheinhessen
Gunderloch
Where was Scheurebe originally bred in Rheinhessen?
Alzey
This Anbaugebeit has more Silvaner planted than any other region in the world, including Franken
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