Rheinhessen Region

Question 1

Name Germany largest wine region?

Answer 1

Rheinhessen

Question 2

Decribe the Rheinterrasse boundary and the most prestigious sector

Answer 2

The Rheinterrasse stretches from Bodenheim southward through the winemaking towns of Nierstein and Oppenheim, terminating near Mettenheim. Its most prestigious sector is a slope of red clay and slate spanning 180 ha between Nierstein and Nackenheim, the Roter Hang

Question 3

Which Aunbagebiete produces more Silvaner in Germany?

Answer 3

the Rheinhessen has a more acreage devoted to Silvaner than any other winegrowing region in the world, including Franken.

Question 4

What is the Message in a Bottle and name two famous producers in the association

Answer 4

Both Keller and Wittmann belong to “Message in a Bottle,” an association of over two dozen young and dynamic winemakers in Rheinhessen committed to raising quality throughout the region.

Question 5

Why the Rheinhessen the warmest aunbagebiete in Germany?

Answer 5

because protected from cold winds by the Bergland of northern Pfalz, by the Hunsrück and Taunus Hills and by the Odenwald forest

Question 6

How the Rheinhessen also known?

Answer 6

Upper Rhine lowlands

Question 7

where the name of Liebfraumilch was first used?

Answer 7

(Our Lady’s milk)

Worms (Liebfrau Monastery)

Question 8

how the Pfälzer forest also known?

Answer 8

Donnersberg

Question 9

Rheinhessen has been divided into three Bereiche, name them

Answer 9

Bingen

Nierstein

Wonnegau

Question 10

Name the Major Villages in

(Nierstein/Rheinterrasse, north to south):

Answer 10

Bodenheim,

Nackenheim,

Nierstein,

Oppenheim,

Dienheim

Question 11

Name the Major Villages in (Bingen):

Answer 11

Siefersheim,

Bingen,

Appenheim

Question 12

Name the Major Villages in (Wonnegau):

Answer 12

Westhofen,

Flörsheim-Dalsheim,

Dittelsheim,

Monsheim,

Worms

Question 13

Name the Region Leading Producers:

Answer 13

Keller (Flörsheim-Dalsheim),

Kühling-Gillot (Bodenheim),

Wagner-Stempel (Siefersheim),

Wittman (Westhofen),

Gunderloch (Nackenheim)

Question 14

What is the climate in the region?

Answer 14

Continental

Question 15

Which gemeinde the following einzellage are located? (Exceptional)

Scharlachberg

Answer 15

Bingen

Question 16

Which gemeinde the following einzellage are located? (Exceptional)

Bürgel

Hubacker

Answer 16

Flörsheim-Dalsheim

(Hubacker alleinbesitz of Weingut Keller)

Question 17

Which gemeinde the following einzellage are located? (Exceptional)

Rothenberg

Answer 17

Nackenheim

Question 18

Which gemeinde the following einzellage are located? (Exceptional)

Pettenthal

Hipping

Glöck

Öelberg

Orbel

Answer 18

Nierstein

(Glöck alleinbesitz of Domäne Oppenheim)

Question 19

Which gemeinde the following einzellage are located? (Exceptional)

Kirchspiel

Answer 19

Westhofen

Question 20

Which gemeinde the following einzellage are located? (Superior)

Liebfrauenstift-Kirchenstück

Answer 20

Worms

Question 21

Which gemeinde the following einzellage are located? (Superior)

Falkenberg

Answer 21

Dienheim

Question 22

Which gemeinde the following einzellage are located? (Superior)

Pares

Answer 22

Ingelheim

Question 23

Which gemeinde the following einzellage are located? (Superior)

Brudersberg

Heilingenbau

Answer 23

Nierstein

(Brudersberg alleinbesitz of St. Antony)

Question 24

Which gemeinde the following einzellage are located? (Superior)

Herrenberg

Kreuz

Sackträger

Answer 24

Oppenheim

Question 25

Which gemeinde the following einzellage are located? (Superior) **Aulerde** **Brunnenhäuschen** **Morstein**

Answer 25

**Westhofen**

Question 26

where the following producers are located? and name their top site **Keller**

Answer 26

**Flörsheim-Dalsheim** **Riesling, "G-Max"** (Inaugural Vintages: 2001) . The young vines are not used for the GG wines, but employed to make a second wine, **Riesling von der Fels**--"from the rocks."

Question 27

where the following producers are located? and name their top site **Kühling-Gillot**

Answer 27

**Bodenheim (near Nierstein)**

Question 28

where the following producers are located? and name their top site **Wagner-Stempel**

Answer 28

**Siefersheim** **Grossen Lage, Riesling, Heerkretz, GG** **Grossen Lage, Riesling, Höllberg, GG** **Gutswein, Riesling, Porphyr (a blend of young vines from Heerkretz and Höllberg)**

Question 29

where the following producers are located? and name their top site **Wittman**

Answer 29

**Westhofen in the Wonnegau** (biodynamic estate in 2004) **Westhofener Aulerde: 6 ha** **Westhofener Kirchspiel: 3 ha** **Westhofener Brunnenhäuschen: 0.5 ha** **Westhofener Morstein: 4**

Question 30

where the following producers are located? and name their top site **Gunderloch**

Answer 30

**(Nackenheim) Nierstein** **Gunderloch's Nackenheimer Rothenberg TBA Riesling** has been awarded 100 points by Wine Spectator three times, for the 1992, 1996, and 2001 vintages. Niersteiner Pettenthal: 3 ha Niersteiner Hipping: 2 ha Niersteiner Englesberg: 1 ha Niersteiner Oelberg: 1 ha

Question 31

where the following producers are located? and name their top site