general - study guide

Question 1

What is the latitude of Germany’s vineyards

Answer 1

They straddle the 50th. parallel

Question 2

How cool are German vineyard sites?

Answer 2

They are some of the coolest sites in the world. But, there are some exceptions.

Question 3

When did vitis vinifera arrive in Germany?

Answer 3

With the Romans. Near the end of the third century.

Question 4

What is Windume Manoth?

Answer 4

It means “Wine month”. Charlemagne coined the term in the late eighth century.

Question 5

What is an einzellagen?

Answer 5

German for Vineyard

Question 6

German labeling was influenced by what?

Answer 6

Monastic influence - the church

Question 7

When was Kloster Eberbach monastery founded?

Answer 7

1136.

Question 8

Where is the Steinberg vineyard?

Answer 8

Kloster Eberbach - within the commune of Hattenheim.

Question 9

What was Germany known as?

Answer 9

Holy Roman Empire

Question 10

Why is German ownership so fractured?

Answer 10

Napoleonic code.

Question 11

In 1960, how many vineyard were in Germany?

Answer 11

Over 30,000 in West Germany

Question 12

When did German Wine Law reorganize the vineyards?

Answer 12

German Wine Law of 1971.
30,000 vineyards were condensed to 2600.
mandated minimum size of 5 ha

Question 13

What were the 3 exceptions to the minimum 5 ha vineyard size?

Answer 13

Bernkasteler Doctor
Forster Kirchenstuck and Freundstuck
Schloss Vollrads Orsteil.

Question 14

What is common to see on German wine labels?

Answer 14

Gothic script

Question 15

How old are some German wineries?

Answer 15

Hundreds of years old.

Question 16

What are the white and red grapes - most planted?

Answer 16

Riesling, and Spatburgunder

Question 17

When was the first documentation of Riesling?

Answer 17

1402

Question 18

When was Spatlese discovered?

Answer 18

1775 - at Schloss Johannisberg.

Question 19

What is Edulfaule?

Answer 19

German term for Noble Rot

Question 20

When was Auslese created / discovered?

Answer 20

1787.

Question 21

When was the model of must weight for the German Wine Law of 1971 conceptualized?

Answer 21

1830s

Question 22

What is “Hock”?

Answer 22

English term for the best wines along the Rhine River.

Question 23

When did vine cultivation get pushed to the slopes?

Answer 23

When demand for food stuffs increased in the 1700s, vine cultivation was moved to the slopes with poor soils.

Question 24

What are the names of the German Rivers

Answer 24

Mosel, Rhine, Main, Nahe, Elbe,

Question 25

When was the Geisenheim Wine Institute founded?

Answer 25

1872