Rheinhessen

Question 1

Scheurebe, developed in the Rheinhessen, is a crossing of which two grapes?

Answer 1

Buckettrebe x Riesling

Question 2

The Rheinhessen is bordered by which river and which two other wine regions?

Answer 2

Bordered by the Rhine river to the north and east, the Nahe to the west and the Pfalz to the south

Question 3

What is the Rheinterrasse?

Answer 3

A region larger than the entire Rheingau, stretching from Bodenheim southward to Mettenheim. It is an extended reach of eastern exposures protected from wind and frost.

Question 4

What is the name of the most prestigious sector of the Rheinterrasse?

Answer 4

The Roter Hang

Question 5

Soil type of the Roter Hang?

Answer 5

Red clay and slate

Question 6

The most presitigous vineyards in the Roter Hang face which direction?

Answer 6

Eastern exposure

Question 7

Name an important producer in the Roter Hang

Answer 7

Gunderloch

Question 8

Who owns most of the Rothernberg vineyard?

Answer 8

Gunderloch

Question 9

Name an important vineyard in the commune of Nackenheim

Answer 9

Rothenberg

Question 10

What is the principal white grape of the Rheinhessen, after Riesling?

Answer 10

Silvaner

Question 11

General style of Silvaner produced in the Rheinhessen?

Answer 11

Dry

Question 12

Weingut Keller (Flörsheim-Dalsheim) and Wittmann (Westhofen) are producers best known for what style of wine?

Answer 12

Dry Riesling

Question 13

Who produces “G Max”?

Answer 13

Weingut Keller

Question 14

What is “G Max”?

Answer 14

Germany’s most elusive and expensive dry Riesling, from an undisclosed vineyard site owned by Weingut Keller

Question 15

The Rheinhessen is known for which inexpensive wine?

Answer 15

Liebfraumilch (Blue Nun)

Question 16

Name two important vineyards in the commune of Nierstein

Answer 16

Hipping and Pettenthal

Question 17

Name two important vineyards in the commune of Oppenheim

Answer 17

Schützenhütte and Sackträger

Question 18

Name two important vineyards in the commune of Westhofen

Answer 18

Morstein and Kirchspiel

Question 19

Name an important vineyard in the commune of Dalsheim

Answer 19

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