Germany Flashcards
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Vitis vinifera arrived in Germany with the?
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Romans near the end of the 3rd century
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the famous Kloster Eberbach monastery in the Rheingau was founded?
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In 1136 by Cistercian Monks
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German Wine Laws established in?
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1971
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Kirchenstück and Freundstück vineyards are located in?
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Forst
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The “discovery” of Spätlese harvesting dates to ?
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1775, when harvesters at Schloss Johannisberg in the Rheingau found that, despite their appearance, grapes afflicted with edelfäule (noble rot) made pretty good wine
The estate followed with the introduction of the Auslese category in 1787 and the first Eiswein in 1858.
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Acolon is a cross of?
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Blaufränkisch x Dornfelder
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Bacchus is a cross of?
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(Silvaner x Riesling) x Müller-Thurgau
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Siegerrebe is a cross of?
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Madeleine Angevine x Gewürztraminer
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Scheurebe is a cross of?
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Bukettrebe x Riesling
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Rotberger (red) is a cross of?
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Trollinger x Riesling
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Perle is a cross of?
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Gewürztraminer x Müller-Thurgau
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Dornfelder is a cross of?
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Helfensteiner x Heroldrebe
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in the 1980s, over 60% of all German vinous exports was?
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Liebfraumilch mainly from Rheinhessen
sweet, cheap, characterless beverage
usually produced from Müller-Thurgau, Liebfraumilch cannot carry a grape name on the label, and it may be blended from vineyards throughout Rheinhessen, Nahe, Rheingau, and the Pfalz
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Pinot Meunier is known as?
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Schwarzriesling
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Prädikatswein must carry a minimum alcohol level of?
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7% (5.5% for Beerenauslese, TBA, and Eiswein wines) and winemakers may not chaptalize at this level
The prädikat level is determined by the level of sugars in the grape at harvest, measured by degrees according to the Öchsle scale
can only be produced in one of Germany’s 13 anbaugebiete
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Minimum Öchsle Range for Pradikatswein?
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Kabinett 70-85°
Spätlese 76-95°
Auslese 83-105°
Beerenauslese 110-128°
Eiswein 110-128°
Trockenbeerenauslese 150-154°
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When was VDP founded?
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Founded in 1910 as the Verband Deutscher Naturweinversteigerer, the organization originally strove to promote unchaptalized natur wines, principally through wine auctions. When the 1971 Wine Law abolished the use of the term natur and created the category of QbA, for which chaptalization is legal, the organization rewrote its internal constitution to promote superior standards while respecting new labeling laws and changed its name to the VDP.
Today, the VDP counts nearly 200 of Germany’s finest estates as members and promotes their wines through an extralegal, tiered hierarchy and a more restrictive classification of einzellagen than the government provides
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Grosse Lage wines can be?
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dry Grosses Gewächs (sometimes stated as GG) or sweet (labeled by prädikat)
Producers of sweet wines may make a range of prädikat levels from a Grosse Lage site, but only one dry wine may be produced in each of the top vineyards
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Erste Lage dry wines must label their products as?
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Trocken
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Grosse Lage wines are the product of grapes harvested by hand at a maximum yield of?
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50hl/ha
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Grosses Gewächs wines are legally considered trocken and may not contain more than?
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9g/l
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In the Rheingau, Grosses Gewächs wines frequently carry the alternative label of?
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Erstes Gewächs, a trademarked term established by Charta
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Grosses Gewächs white wines may not be released before ?
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September 1 of the year following the harvest; red wines receive an additional year of aging. Erste Lage wines labeled by prädikat may be released as soon as May 1 of the year following the harvest
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Ortswein and Gutswein, modeled on Burgundy’s village and regional wines, respectively. At these levels, maximum permitted yields are ?
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75hl/ha
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Erste Lage max yields?
60hl/ha
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Name the six bereich of Mosel
Bernkastel, Burg Cochem, Saar, Ruwertal, Obermosel, and Moseltor
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The earliest evidence of winegrowing in Germany is in?
Mosel
Romans established the city of Trier and prospered in the 3rd century
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The Bernkastel bereich is the largest, occupying a stretch of the Mosel from Trier to Zell, wherein most of the Mosel’s greatest gemeinden and einzellagen are located and its known as?
Mittelmosel
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Name the major villages of Bernkastel
(north to south): Pünderich, Enkirch, Traben-Trarbach, Wolf, Kröv, Lösnich, Erden, Ürzig, Zeltingen, Wehlen, Graach an der Mosel, Bernkastel-Kues, Lieser, Brauneberg, Kesten, Wintrich, Piesport, Dhron, Neumagen, Trittenheim, Leiwen
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Name the principal grape varieties of Mosel
Red Grapes (9%)
Spätburgunder: 396 ha
White Grapes (91%)
Riesling: 5,395 ha
Müller-Thurgau: 1,092 ha
Elbling: 512 ha
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Name some leading producers from Mosel?
Fritz Haag (Brauneberg), Dr. Loosen (Bernkastel), Egon Müller (Wiltingen), Joh. Jos. Prüm (Wehlen), Karthäuserhof (Eitelsbach)
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The soils are composed of?
dark blue Devonian slate, although red slate characterizes the vineyards near Erden. The absorptive blue slate retains heat and the river reflects warmth onto the vines
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Two commonly encountered grosslagen within the Bernkastel bereich are?
Badstube and Michelsberg. The former can be the source of decent wines sourced from the region around Bernkastel-Kues; the latter is a commercially made, rather unfortunate smear on the integrity of Piesport
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Piesport’s greatest vineyard is ?
Goldtröpfchen—“droplets of gold”
Reinhold Haart and Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt are some top producers on this site
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Name the Einzellage of Erden
Prälat, Treppchen on red slate soils
Prälat is one of the Mosel’s warmest sites, and again Dr. Loosen is a premier producer of its wines.
The Erdener Pralat Trockenbeerenauslese is also one of the best sweet wines from Erden
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Name the best vineyard of Ürzig
Ürziger Würzgarten
Blazing red and precipitously steep, the Ürziger Würzgarten vineyard forms a massive amphitheater of Rotliegendes (a red, volcanic sandstone) and red slate that is unlike any other site in the Mosel region. Although it lies immediately upstream from the vineyards of Erden, Ürziger Würzgarten produces an entirely different expression of Riesling, with great depth, tantalizing exotic fruits and spicy aromas.
The Mönchhof estate and its subsidiary Joh. Jos. Christoffel Erben are based in Ürzig, and are prominent producers of Würzgarten wines
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the famous sundial (Sonnenuhr) vineyards are located in?
Wehlen and Zeltingen
Brauneberg’s Juffer-Sonnenuhr
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Bernkastel-Kues is the site of the famous ?
Doctor vineyard
The vineyard is only 3.25 hectares large, fully south-southwest facing, and characterized by the region’s typical Devonian blue slate, but with good stony-loamy-clay presence (which means that, somewhat uniquely, the Doctor is blessed with both very good drainage and water-retentive capacities). Add to all of that the average age of the wines hovers at around 60 years of age (with vines of 100 years or more not uncommon) and that it is estimated that anywhere from 30-40% are ungrafted, and one understands why the Doctor has been the source of some of the most sought-after German wines of all. The Doctor’s wines are at once rich, profound and even spicy (it’s a rather warm site where the snow melts before than in the surrounding vineyards), but at the same time refined and finely structured
Entirely planted to Riesling, it is an extremely steep site (45-60% gradient
Top producers and wines:
Reichstrgraft von Kesselstat 2006 Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling Auslese
Dr. H.Thanisch Erben Thanisch 2016 Berncasteler Doctor Riesling Spätlese
Lauerburg 1976 Berncasteler Doctor Riesling Beerenauslese
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Bernkasteler Lay soils, style and top producers?
The Bernkasteler Lay (Lay is an old term for slate; pronounced “LIE” in German) is located on the outskirts of Bernkastel on the right bank of the Mosel. The name refers to the soil of deep, weathered blue slate. This site has a somewhat gentler slope than the winery's other vineyards. It produces powerful, fruit-driven Rieslings, often with notes of green apple and cassis.
Dr Loosen's Bernkasteler Lay Riesling GG is a top example
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Zeltingen Sonnenhur soils, grapes and top producers?
SSW-S
100-250m
65-75%
stony, weathered, grey Devonian slate
Riesling all lvls of sweetness
JJ Prum top producer
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Wehlener Sonnenuhr soils, orientation and incline, top producers?
southwest facing VDP.GROSSE LAGE
very steep slope gradient of 60 to 100 percent.
Blue Slate
The GL SONNENUHR is the prime parcel within the 40-hectare Wehlener Sonnenuhr vineyard. In these steep sites the vines of the main grape variety Riesling (99 %) are mostly trained on individual posts
Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt
Dr. Loosen
Joh. Jos. Prüm
S. A. Prüm
Willi Schaefer
Schloss Lieser - Thomas Haag
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When is Devonian Period?
called the Age of Fishes
an interval of the Paleozoic Era that follows the Silurian Period and precedes the Carboniferous Period, spanning between about 419.2 million and 358.9 million years ago.
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What is slate?
Slate is a metamorphic, plate-like rock formed when shale, clay, or siltstone is subjected to pressure deep within the earth. The soil retains heat well and warms up relatively quickly.
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Name the best sites of Graach
Himmelreich, Domprobst, Josephshöfer (monopole of Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt)
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Brauneberg's best sites?
Juffer, Juffer Sonnenuhr
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Trittenheim best sites?
Apotheke
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Piesport best sites?
Goldtröpfchen, Domherr
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Josephshöfer soils, orientation?
The south facing 4-hectare VDP.GROSSE LAGE® JOSEPHSHÖFER lies between the two large vineyards Graacher Domprobst and Wehlener Sonnenuhr. The very steep site climbs from 110 to 165 metres a.s.l. at a 44 percent gradient. The soil is comprised of deep, weathered Devon slate debris and abundant rocks, particularly in the higher areas.
The site was documented as the monastery vineyard in 1100
monopole of Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt
blue and grey slate
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Domprobst's soils, orientation, topography and producers?
blue and grey slate
southwest
45-75%
von Kesselstrat, Prum and Dr. loosen are the top producers
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Name a top producer for Brauneberger Juffer and Juffer Sonnenhur
Fritz Haag GG's in both vineyards
51
Name the villages of Saar
Serrig, Saarburg, Wiltingen, Ockfen, Oberemmel, Kanzem
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Name the villages of Ruwertal
Ruwer, Eitelsbach, Mertesdorf, Kasel, Waldrach, Avelsbach
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Name the villages of Burg Cochem
Winningen, Kobern-Gondorf, Hatzenport, Cochem, Bremm, Zell
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Name the 2 monopole vineyards of Ruwer
Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg (part of a trio of monopoles owned by the von Schubert-Grünhaus estate) and Eitelsbacher Karthäuserhofberg, owned by Karthäuserhof
Bruderberg and Herrenberg from Maximin as well
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Which is the main grape in Obermosel and Moseltor?
Elbling
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the most southern bereich of mosel?
Moseltor
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Who is the top producer in Burg Cochem?
Heymann Lowenstein in Winningen
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This area is often referred to as the Terrassenmosel
Burg Cochem which has some of the steepest vineyards in Europe
65% incline
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Name the single vineyard wines of Heymann Lowenstein
von blauem Schiefer (of blue slate)
Kirchberg (Church Hill) red slate
Stolzenberg (Pride Mountain) grey slate
Röttgen (blue slate)
Uhlen Blaufüsser Lay
Uhlen Laubach
Uhlen Roth Lay (the highest)
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The Lower Mosel stretches from?
Zell northward through Cochem to Koblenz
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Reinhard Heymann-Löwenstein applied for Germany’s first three single-vineyard PDOs, for three separate parcels within Uhlen:
Blaufüsser Lay, Roth Lay, and Laubach. These were approved by the EU in 2018
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Name the best vineyards of Saar
The best vineyards are the south-facing Saarburger Rausch, the neighboring Hörecker and Altenberg on the Saar River in Kanzem, and the legendary Scharzhofberg in Wiltingen
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Moseltor soil?
limestone rather than slate
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Name the sole bereich of Rheingau
Johannisberg
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How is called the traditional brown bottle of Rheingau?
A traditional flute-shaped brown bottle, the Rheingauer Flöte
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Name the best sites of Wehlen
Sonnenuhr
Klosterberg
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Name the Auslese sweet wines of Markus Molitor
Wehlener Klosterberg
Kinheimer Rosenberg
Zeltingen Sonnenuhr
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Kinheimer Rosenberg soils, exposures and style?
This vineyard is southwest-facing, encompasses 63 hectares (153 acres), and is composed of deep weathered grey slate soil. Wines originating in the Kinheimer Rosenberg impress with evocative minerality in delicate interplay with forward fruit
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The Bernkastel bereich is the largest, occupying a stretch of the Mosel from?
Triel to Zell
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Riesling in Rheingau accounts for?
80% of the plantings
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Rheingau's expositions?
south-east facing slope
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the Rhine River in Rheingau flows westward for a short time from the cities of?
Weisbaden to Rudesheim
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Rheinhau's soils and style?
Soil in the upper slope vineyards is dominated by slate, whereas the lower vineyards closer to the water contain a mixture of clay, loess, alluvial sand and red slate. The varied soils of the Rheingau and the favorable mesoclimate combine to produce a more powerful style of Riesling than the Mosel. The wines are typically fuller in body and more concentrated, yet acidity can be bracing. Dry wines account for over half of the Rheingau Riesling production.
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On the western end of the Rheingau, to the northwest of Rüdesheim, lies the village of ?
Assmannshausen
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Assmannshausen main grape and its top producer?
Assmannshausen maintains a majority of the region’s Spätburgunder, the most planted red grape in the anbaugebiet. The commune’s best Pinot Noir materializes from the Höllenberg vineyard; August Kesseler is amongst its finest growers.
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Name the villages of Rheingau from west to east
Lorch, Assmannshausen, Rüdesheim, Geisenheim, Johannisberg, Winkel, Oestrich, Hallgarten, Hattenheim, Erbach, Kiedrich, Eltville, Rauenthal, Martinsthal, Walluf, Hochheim, Wicker
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Name the best sites and producers of Rüdesheim
Seven vineyards by the VDP as Grosse Lage: Rosengarten, Kirchenpfad, Unterer Bischofsberg, Berg Rottland, Berg Roseneck, Berg Kaisersteinfels and Berg Schlossberg
The steepest section of the Rheingau is just west of Rüdesheim. Here, the Berd Rottland, Berg Roseneck and Berg Schlossberg vineyards make some of the most prized wines in the Rheingau on vineyards that have gradients reaching as high as 70 percent
August Kesseler, George Breuer, Kloster Eberbach, Weingut Leitz and Weingut Kunstler are top producers
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Name the top wines of Georg Breuer
The three greatest Grand Crus in Rüdesheim – Berg Schlossberg, Berg Roseneck and Berg Rottland, and the Monopole site, Nonnenberg in Rauenthal
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Which is the monopole vineyard of Rudesheim?
Johannes Leitz is perhaps best known for his tiny 1.2 hectare monopole Rüdesheimer Rosengarten GG (Grosses Gewächs, i.e.Grand Cru)
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Name the best wines of Weingut Leitz
Rüdesheimer Rosengarten (monopole)
“Hinterhaus” (Rottland), “Ehrenfels” (Schlossberg), and “Katerloch” (Roseneck)
Rüdesheimer Kaisersteinfels
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Which is the first Riesling winery in the world?
SCHLOSS JOHANNISBERG
Wine has been cultivated at Schloss Johannisberg for 1200 years, exclusively Riesling since 1720
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Which is the mountain range of Rheingau?
Taunus
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The landscape between Geisenheim and Johannisberg to the east is dominated by?
SCHLOSS JOHANNISBERG
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SCHLOSSBERG RIESLING VDP.GROSSES GEWÄCHS® in Winkel is produced by?
Rieslings from old vines from the two best plots of our Schloss Vollrads monopole vineyard
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Name the top sites of Winkel
Schloss Vollrads, Jesuitengarten, Hasensprung
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Name the monopole vineyard of Hattenheim and its top producer
Schloss Schönborn, whose holdings include the monopole Pfaffenberg vineyard, is one of the principal growers based in Hattenheim.
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Name the top sites of Hattenheim
Pfaffenberg (monopole of Schloss Schonborn)
Steinberger is the most famous, but Mannberg, Wisselbrunnen, Nussbrunnen and Hassel are also noted for their unique terroir.
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Where is Hattenheim located?
This small but important town sits below Hallgarten and between Oestrich and Erbach on the Rhine river.
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The Steinberg vineyard is owned entirely by
the Hessiche Staatsweingüter Kloster Eberbach, a state-owned wine producer.
a 32.4 hectares (80 acres) wall-enclosed vineyard (a Clos, using French terminology) near Hattenheim in the Rheingau.[1][2] It is the largest wall-enclosed vineyard in Germany
Riesling only
"stony hill"
It was founded around 1170 by Cistercian monks of nearby Eberbach Abbey (Kloster Eberbach)
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Name some top producers and wines from Hattenheim
Schloss Shonborn
Schloss Rheinhartshausen
Balthasar Ress
Weingut Kaufmann
Kloster Eberbach (Steinberger)
Langwerth von Simmern (Mannberg)
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Robert Weil estate is owned by?
Japanese whisky giant Suntory
92
Name the top sites and producers of Hallgarten
Schönhell, Jungfer and Heldelberg
Peter Jakob Kühn and Weingut Prinz are some top producers
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Name the top sites, producers and wines of Erbach
Hohenrain
Siegelsberg
Marcobrunn
Schlossberg (monopole of Schloss Reinhartshausen)
Schloss Schonborn Marcobrunn, Langwerth von Simmern Erbacher Marcobrunn Auslese, Kloster Eberbch Marcobrunn
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Name the best site of Kiedrich
Gräfenberg and Klosterberg
Robert Weil, whose holdings in the Gräfenberg vineyard are the source of outstanding sweet wines, especially at Auslese level and above
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Hölle vineyard is located in?
Johannisberg and Hochheim
they are separate vineyards under the same name
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Künstler is the leading producer of?
Hochheim on Main
Over the years we have also acquired prime vineyards in Rüdesheim and Assmannshausen
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Name the best sites and producers of Eltvile
Sonnenberg
JB Becker and Schloss Eltz are top producers
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Name the best sites of Hochheim am Main
Hölle, Kirchenstück
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Johannisberg itself is technically part of the larger?
Geisenheim municipality
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Which is the steepest vineyard of Rheingau?
Rüdesheim claims the region’s steepest slopes, which reach a 70% grade in the Grosse Lage site Berg Schlossberg
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Who were among the first producers in Germany to introduce glass bottles, in the early 1700s?
Schloss Schönborn and Schloss Johannisberg
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A turn toward dry Riesling in the Rheingau, which would replace off-dry wines as the primary product of the region by the end of the 20th century, began with the founding of?
Charta Association in 1984
Bernhard Breuer of Rüdesheim’s Georg Breuer estate led the charge
Erstes Gewächs. This “first growth” category, permitted under German wine law for the 1999 vintage forward, applies to dry Riesling and Spätburgunder bottlings from selected Rheingau vineyards.
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Two monopoles of ecclesiastical origin exist:
Schloss Johannisberg, planted to Riesling since 1720, and the Hattenheimer Steinberg vineyard of Kloster Eberbach, enclosed by a wall in 1760. There is also Hattenheimer Pfaffenberg, a monopole of Schloss Schönborn since the 1600s.
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Where is Rheinhessen's location?
The Rheinhessen is directly south of the Rheingau, and it is bordered by the Rhine River to the north and east, the Nahe to the west, and the Pfalz to the south. The historically important city of Worms marks the southern edge of the Rheinhessen, and Mainz—home of the German Wine Institute—is the Rheinhessen’s northern outpost, situated across the Rhine from Wiesbaden
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Which anbaugebiet of Germany has the most land under vine?
Home to one-quarter of Germany’s land under vine, the Rheinhessen is the country’s biggest winegrowing region
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Name the grapes of Rheinhessen
Red Grapes (31.2%)
Dornfelder: 3,535 ha
Portugieser: 1,439 ha
Spätburgunder: 1,439 ha
White Grapes (68.8%)
Riesling: 4,267 ha
Müller-Thurgau (Rivaner): 4,241 ha
Silvaner: 2,371 ha
Grauburgunder: 1,379 ha
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Name the 3 berecih of Rheinhessen
Nierstein, Bingen, Wonnegau
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There is one area historically associated with quality winegrowing in the Rheinhessen:
the Roter Hang, a “red hill” of clay and weathered red sandstone (Rotliegendes) on the left bank of the Rhine between the villages of Nierstein and Nackenheim. It lies within a larger span of eastern exposures, the Rheinterrasse, which extends south of Nierstein through the village of Oppenheim. Protected from the frost and winds that sweep through much of the Rheinhessen and home to the famed vineyards Pettenthal and Rothenberg, the Roter Hang is a slim, east-facing slope reaching 70 to 80% grade, but it is hardly representative of the entire Anbaugebiet. Riesling from the Roter Hang fetched prices in line with those of the Rheingau in the 19th century—in fact, the most expensive wine aboard the doomed Titanic was a Niersteiner Riesling—but the remainder of the Rheinhessen became better known in the 20th century as a reservoir of uninteresting crossings and unremarkable wines.
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Name the top producers and sites of Westhofen
Aulerde, Kirchspiel, Morstein, and Brunnenhäuschen
Klaus-Peter Keller and Philipp Wittmann, whose estates share access to several vineyards in the southern Wonnegau Bereich, led the charge.
Limestone soils
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In the villages of Bingen and Siefersheim, the latter anchored by the recent successes of?
Wagner-Stempel
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Name some top producers and wines from Rheinhessen
Klaus P Keller (G Max)
Wittman
Wagner-Stempel
the biodynamic Kühling-Gillot in the Roter Hang
Gunderloch (Nackenheim)
Thorle
Dreissigacker
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Keller is located in?
Flörsheim-Dalsheim
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Who produces Dalsheim Oberer Hubacker Riesling Grosse Gewachs?
This Riesling is sourced from the Hubacker vineyard in Dalsheim, which is a designated ‘monopol’ or single-estate vineyard owned exclusively by Weingut Keller
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Name the top producers of Rothenberg
Gunderloch (owns three-quarters)
Kühling-Gillot
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Where is Roter Haag?
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
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Rothenberg is located in?
Nackenheim
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Hipping, Pettenthal are located in?
Nierstein
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Hubacker is located in?
Dalsheim
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Which region of Germany has the highest plantings of Silvaner?
Rheinhessen
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Which is the oldest vineyard of Westhofen?
The pure south-facing slope runs along a high plateau (280 meters above sea level) and is the oldest single
site in Westhofen (first mentioned in 1282). The VDP.GROSSE LAGE MORSTEIN sits in the heart of the
hillside, between 180 – 240 meters of elevation and with inclines of up to 20% in limestone soils.
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Aurlede characteristics?
Given that the first written record of this vineyard dates back to 1380, it appears that our predecessors long ago
recognized just how sublime this south-facing hillside truly is. Sloping gently towards the village, it is our
warmest site and promotes early ripening of the grapes.
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BRUNNENHÄUSCHEN characteristics?
Although the BRUNNENHÄUSCHEN vineyard, located just to the east of MORSTEIN, faces
south, it is nevertheless known for very late ripening. This is a product both of its elevation (240
meters above sea level) and its exposure to the west wind, which cools despite the intense
sunshine that falls here.
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Kirchpiel characteristics?
The KIRCHSPIEL opens up toward the Rhine like an ancient amphitheater, ready to bask in the
first morning rays of sunshine. The vineyards face from east to southeast, protected against the
west winds and creating the outstanding microclimate for which the Kirchspiel is known. Our
vines are primarily planted in the upper portion of the site, at inclines of up to 80%
The soils are mainly clayey marl with limestone deposits, joined by limestone weathering clay
that lend the KIRCHSPIEL its distinctive, spicy-elegant character.
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The Pfalz, known to English-speakers as the?
Palatinate
is one of the warmest winegrowing regions in Germany after Kaiserstulh
Riesling that is resoundingly dry, offering more body, weight, and alcohol than any other classic Riesling region in Germany
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Pfalz soils?
An extremely complex soil makeup, with layers of red sandstone, calcium-based limestone, loess, red slate, basalt, igneous granite and alluvial gravel.
Moslty a mixture of red sandstone and volcanic basalt
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Which is the mountain of Pfalz?
Haardt Hills
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Name the grape varieties of Pfalz
It has the highest plantings of Riesling in Germany
Red Grapes (37.7%)
Dornfelder: 3,164 ha
Portugieser: 1,781 ha
Spätburgunder: 1,636 ha
White Grapes (62.3%)
Riesling: 5,737 ha
Müller Thurgau: 2,078 ha
Grauburgunder: 1,268 ha
Weissburgunder: 1,026 ha
Kerner: 971 ha
128
Name the 2 bereich of Pfalz
Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse, Südliche Weinstrasse
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Name the premier wine villages of Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse
Kallstadt, Ungstein, Bad Dürkheim, Wachenheim, Forst, Deidesheim, Ruppertsberg, Königsbach, Gimmeldingen and Haardt
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Germany's second largest wine growing region is?
Pfalz
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Which is the best vineyards of Pfalz?
Kirchenstuck the “Church parcel in Forst which is the warmest site, followed by Kallstadter Saumagen, an amphitheater-like suntrap and the finest site north of
Other important sites of the Mittelhaardt include Königsbacher Idig and Gimmeldinger Mandelgarten
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Name the 3Bs producers of Pfalz
Reichsrat von Buhl, Bürklin-Wolf, and Bassermann-Jordan—have important legacies and continue to produce significant quantities of fine wine
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Name a top bottling from Kallstadt
Kallstadter Saumagen by Koehler-Ruprecht
Kabinett, spatlese, auslese
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Name the best sites and producers of Ungstein
Herrenberg and Weilberg vineyards
Pfeffingen winery is a top producer
In addition to Riesling from the top locations Ungsteiner Weilberg and Ungsteiner Herrenberg, the winery has made a name for itself for an unusual specialty: the Scheurebe. Hardly any other company has similar expertise in dealing with the new breed, which is now almost 100 years old
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Name the best sites of Bad Dürkheim
Rittergarten, Hochbenn and Steinberg. Looking south-east down onto the plain is the Nonnengarten. Due south, on the other side of the town itself, is the Fuchsmantel site
Dürkheimer Rieslings are produced in varying levels of sweetness, from trocken to trockenbeerenauslese. Most examples are dry or off-dry.
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Two wineries dominate production of Wachenheim's quality wines:
Dr. Bürklin-Wolf (still wines) and the Sektkellerei Schloss Wachenheim (sparkling wines). Another producer of note is J.L. Wolf (now Villa Wolf since being taken over by Mosel wine magnate Ernst Loosen), whose base is a 19th-Century country house known as Villa Wolf, located at the village's southern edge.
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Which producer in the village of Haardt continues to prove that classically sweet wines have their place in the Pfalz, producing Riesling, Scheurebe, and Rieslaner in a lusher style?
Müller-Catoir
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Which village of Pfalz has the more Grosse Lage sites?
Deidesheim
These are 6: Kalkofen, Grainhübel, Kieselberg, Langenmorgen, Hohenmorgen and Paradiesgarten.
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Name some top producers in Deidesheim
Von Winning
Dr. Burklin Wolf
Dr. Basserman
Reischrat von Bulh
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Name the top sites of Forst
Kirchenstück (shared by 8 owners), Freundstück, Pechstein, Ungeheuer, Jesuitengarten
To the immediate west of Forst are Jesuitengarten, Kirchenstuck and Freundstuck. This trio of vineyards is widely regarded as the best in Pfalz. Such producers as Basserman-Jordan, Burklin-Wolf and von Buhl and Von Winning produce top Rieslings
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Name the 2 sites of Konigsbach and its top producers
Idig and Ölberg
A. Christmann, Von Winning, Bassermann are top producers
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Name Ruppertsberg's top sites
Reiterpfad, Speiss and Gaisböhl (Bürklin-Wolf monopole)
Von Winning, Reichsrat von Buhl and A. Christmann are also top producers on these sites
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Name a top producer for Gimmeldinger Mandelgarten
Muller-Catoir
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What is Birkweiler Kastanienbusch?
an 86-hectare, south-facing slope hidden among the Haardt hills, gave new hope to Südliche Weinstrasse. Less tied to tradition than the Mittelhaardt, the southern Pfalz has provided a more diverse vineyard, with some of Germany’s best examples of Weissburgunder and Spätburgunder appearing in vineyards like Siebeldinger im Sonnenschein and Schweiger Kammerberg
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Name some top producers from Pfalz
Knipser (Laumersheim), Ökonomierat Rebholz ( Siebeldingen), Bassermann-Jordan (Deidesheim), Von Winning (Deidesheim), Friedrich Becker (Schweigen), Dr. Bürklin-Wolf (Wachenheim), A. Christmann (Gimmeldingen), Koehler-Ruprecht (Kallstadt), Philipp Kuhn (Laumersheim), Georg Mosbacher (Forst), Pfeffingen - Fuhrmann-Eymael (Bad Dürkheim), Dr. Wehrheim (Birkweiler)
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The Südliche (southern) Weinstrasse picks up just south of the city of?
Neustadt and extends through Schweigen at the Alsatian border.
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The Northern vineyards are located north of Neustadt an der Weinstraße in a region often listed on wine labels as ?
Mittelhaardt
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Franken is centered along which river?
Main
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Name the 3 bereich of Franken
Mainviereck, Maindreieck, Steigerwald
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Franken lies within the federal state of?
Bavaria
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Name the main grape varieties of Franken
Red Grapes (19%)
Spätburgunder: 261 ha
White Grapes (81%)
Müller Thurgau: 1,718 ha
Silvaner: 1,406 ha
Bacchus: 730 ha
Riesling: 332 ha
Silvaner is the most important quality grape, followed by a trickle of Riesling, Weissburgunder, and the occasional compelling red Spätburgunder or Frühburgunder.
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Name the traditional bottle of Franken
Bottled in the traditional, squat Bocksbeutel
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The commercial center of Franken is?
Würzburg on its western edge
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The westernmost bereich of Franken is?
Mainviereck, or the “four-sided Main,” where the river’s flow approximates a rectangular shape. Soils here are typically composed of weathered red sandstone, and the climate is gentler than in areas further east. It has therefore emerged as the only natural home for Pinot Noir in Franken
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Name the major villages of Mainviereck
Bürgstadt, Miltenberg, Marktheidenfeld, Erlenbach
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Name the major villages of Maindreieck
Karlstadt, Thüngersheim, Würzburg, Randersacker, Sommerhausen, Frickenhausen, Escherndorf, Volkach, Nordheim, Fahr
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Name the major villages of Steigerwald
Rödelsee, Iphofen, Castell, Wiesenbronn
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Name the best Grosse Lage of Würzburg
Stein, Leiste
Würzburger Stein is planted primarily to Riesling and Silvaner; it produces some of Franken’s top examples of both grapes with a touch of trademark smokiness
The most important landholders of Stein are Juliusspital, Franken’s largest producer, and Bürgerspital
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Steigerwald, is located on the ?
eastern part of Franken
With vineyards on the edge of the Steigerwald mountain forest, reaching almost 400 meters in elevation, this is the highest and coolest district in Franken
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Which are the most important villages of the Steigerwald?
Castell, where Silvaner first appeared in Germany, and Iphofen
Hans Wirsching and Horst Sauer produce excellent examples from the villages of Iphofen and Escherndorf
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Almost all Franken wine is?
dry, and some excellent Grosses Gewächs Rieslings are now appearing, along with a few notable bottlings of Spätburgunder and Frühburgunder, an early-ripening strain of Pinot Noir
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Name some top producers from Franken
Rudolf Furst, Bürgerspital, Castell, Juliusspital, Horst Sauer and Wirsching
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Which are the villages that have earned reputations for quality red wine, while marking the earliest known episodes of winegrowing in Franken, which date back to the 8th century.
Klingenberg and Bürgstadt
Klingenberg and the steep slopes of the Grosse Lage vineyard of Schlossberg.
There are two Grosse Lage-designated sites in Bürgstadt: Centgrafenberg and Hunsrück
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Nahe bereich?
Nahetal
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Name the principal grape varieties of Nahe
Red Grapes (25.2%)
Dornfelder: 448 ha
Spätburgunder: 270 ha
White Grapes (74.8%)
Riesling: 1,170 ha
Müller Thurgau: 532 ha
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Name Nahe's Major Villages (north to southwest)
Münster-Sarmsheim, Burg Layen, Dorsheim, Laubenheim, Windesheim, Langenlonsheim, Wallhausen, Bad Kreuznach, Bad Münster am Stein, Traisen, Norheim, Niederhausen, Oberhausen, Schlossböckelheim, Bockenau
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Name the leading producers of Nahe
Hermann Dönnhoff (Oberhausen), Emrich-Schönleber (Monzingen), Schlossgut Diel (Burg Layen), Schäfer-Fröhlich (Bockenau), Dr. Crusius (Traisen)
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Name the finest sites of Nahe
monopole vineyard Oberhauser Brücke and Hermannshöhle in Niederhausen, the Nahe’s finest site.
Dönnhoff
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Name the mountains of Nahe
The Nahe is at a geological crossroads, positioned at the intersection of the Mainz and Saar-Nahe Basins and the Rhenish Massif, which comprises the slate Hunsrück hills of the Mosel Valley and the low Taunus and Eifel Mountains of the Rheingau and Ahr.
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Which is the driest region of Germany?
Protected from wind and weather on the north and west by wooded mountains, the region’s climate remains mild and dry—average annual rainfall is around 500 millimeters (about 20 inches), making the Nahe Germany’s driest winegrowing climate. Most precipitation occurs in the summer months rather than over harvest, and frosts are rare.
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Which grapes are allowed fro Grosse Lage sites in Nahe?
only Riesling
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Nahe consists of at least three distinct, classic subregions renowned for quality Riesling along the Nahe River itself:
the Upper, Middle, and Lower Nahe. (The vineyards surrounding Bad Kreuznach, which divides the Middle and Lower Nahe, are sometimes considered a separate subregion.)
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Who is the preeminent producer of the Upper Nahe?
Emrich-Schönleber, based in Monzingen
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Which is the holy trio of Nahe?
Dönnhoff, Emrich-Schönleber and Schäfer-Fröhlich
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Which are the top wines of Emrich-Schönleber?
Three grand vineyards of Emrich-Schönleber are, is a world of slate, both blue-gray and red. The Halenberg and tiny Auf der Lay is largely the former, with blue-gray slate that shapes a wine of rigor, density and power. This is perhaps the more mineral, more ageworthy of the two Grand Crus. The Frühlingsplätzchen has veins of red slate and always seems more expansive, diffuse, lighter and finessed. It is a wine with a stunning florality and vivid aromatics; it is more expressive in youth.
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The towns of the Middle Nahe are the most famous winegrowing villages of the Nahe, with numerous Grosse Lage sites, including ?
Niederhauser Hermannshöhle, Schlossböckelheimer Kupfergrube, Schlossböckelheimer Felsenberg, Norheimer Dellchen, Traiser Bastei, and Oberhauser Brücke, the last of these a monopole of Nahe’s foremost producer, Weingut Dönnhoff
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Which are Lower Nahe’s most renowned winegrowing villages ?
lie in this northern sector: Münster-Sarmsheim, Dorsheim, and Laubenheim itself
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Who is the top producer of Lower Nahe?
Schlossgut Diel in the nearby town of Burg Layen
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Lower Nahe's soils, topography and style?
the soil composition becomes heavier with clay and loess, and the Lower Nahe stretches from the town’s northern limits to the river’s confluence with the Rhine at Bingen, marking the tripoint of the Rheinhessen, the Rheingau, and the Nahe Anbaugebiete. The Lower Nahe is a warmer region than either the Upper or Middle Nahe, with more climatic similarity to the neighboring Rheinhessen than the cooler Hunsrück hills to the west. Riesling styles from the Lower Nahe share the fuller body and more opulent style of the Rheinhessen, and Spätburgunder performs best in the Lower Nahe, even as it is still excluded from Grosse Lage vineyards
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Which is the world’s most northerly wine region dedicated to red wine production
Ahr
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The winegrowing area surrounds the Ahr River, a tributary of the Rhine, and its terraced vineyards are sheltered from cold winds by the ?
Eifel Mountains. Steep slopes of rocky, volcanic slate offer warmth, and the region is actually warmer than the Mosel (The VDP describes its climate as “Mediterranean”)
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Name the sole bereich and Gross Lage of Ahr
Walporzheim-Ahrtal and Klosterberg
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Name Ahr's top producers
Meyer-Näkel and Kreuzberg
Nelles (Bad Neuenahr) Jean Stodden (Rech), Weingut Deutzerhof - Cossmann-Hehle (Mayschoss), J.J. Adeneuer (Ahrweiler)
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Which are the main grapes of Ahr?
Red Grapes (84.4%)
Spätburgunder: 364 ha
Portugieser: 32 ha
Frühburgunder: 37 ha
White Grapes (15.6%)
Riesling: 46 ha
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Ahr is split between?
Upper Ahr west of Walporzheim and the Lower Ahr, spanning the remaining distance to the river’s confluence with the Rhine. The Lower Ahr Valley is more densely planted, with more basalt-derived clay and sand atop dark slate. It is also warmer, with harvests occurring on average 10 days earlier than in the Upper Ahr Valley. Because of this, Lower Ahr wines exhibit a more opulent character. Some of the most ancient vineyards, however, are further west. In the nearly pure slate soils of the Upper Ahr Valley, phylloxera is nonexistent, and there are a few century-old vineyards, still trained in the single-post system.
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Frühburgunder, known in France as ?
Pinot Noir Precocé, has replaced Portugieser as the second most planted red variety in the Ahr
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Germany's warmest winegrowing region is?
Kaiserstuhl
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What is schillerwein?
The rosé Weissherbst is locally popular in Baden; schillerwein, a style of rosé produced by fermenting red and white grapes together, is more common in Württemberg.
They are typically light, trocken or halbtrocken in style, and contain 11 to 12.5% finished alcohol
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Name the 9 bereich of Baden
Badische-Bergstrasse, Kraichgau, Ortenau, Breisgau, Kaiserstuhl, Markgräflerland, Bodensee, Tauberfranken, Tuniberg
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Where is Baden located?
The winegrowing region of Baden, Germany’s third-largest Anbaugebiet, lines the eastern half of the Upper Rhine Valley and runs parallel to Alsace and the Pfalz, between the Rhine River and the Black Forest. Baden extends for nearly 400 kilometers and is divided into nine diverse Bereiche, scattered from the shores of Lake Constance, which separates Germany and Switzerland, to the edge of the Odenwald hills in Hessische-Bergstrasse and the Tauber River Valley, near Würzburg in Franken.
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Name the main grapes of Baden
Red Grapes (42.2%)
Spätburgunder: 5,592 ha
White Grapes (57.8%)
Müller Thurgau: 2,559 ha
Grauburgunder: 1,896 ha
Weissburgunder: 1,373 ha
Riesling: 1,119 ha
Gutedel (Chasselas): 1,117 ha
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Gutedel is cultivated almost exclusively in which bereich of Baden?
In the Markgräferland Bereiche at Baden’s southernmost point
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Müller-Thurgau is the most planted grape in which of the bereich of Baden?
In the northerly Bereiche of Tauberfranken, Badische Bergstrasse, and Kraichgau, and in the Bodensee (the German name for Lake Constance) Bereich in the south, Müller-Thurgau still reigns as the top variety, making it the second most planted variety overall in Baden
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Name the four bereich for Spatburgunder in Baden
From north to south, they are Ortenau, Breisgau, Kaiserstuhl, and Tuniberg
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Breisgau's style and its top producer?
On weathered limestone, with their backs against the Black Forest, 20 kilometers or more from the Rhine, the vineyards of Breisgau can produce an almost Côte de Nuits-like style of Pinot Noir. (See the wines of the late Bernhard Huber in Malterdingen.)
Grosses Gewächs bottlings are made from the Bienenberg, Sommerhalde and Schlossberg vineyards. Another is made from the Wildenstein parcel of Bienenberg, regarded as the original medieval vineyard site in the village
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Kaiserstuhl’s best Spätburgunder sites are often its steepest, with purer volcanic soils rather than windblown loess, such as?
Achkarrer Schlossberg and Ihringer Winklerberg, Germany’s hottest vineyard
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Alongside Spätburgunder, the VDP permits the production of ?
Weissburgunder, Grauburgunder, Riesling, and Chardonnay as Grosse Lage wines throughout Baden
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Grosse Lage Grauburgunder is rarely produced outside of Baden, and here it is almost always dry. (Sweeter styles, when made, are usually labeled under the synonym?
Ruländer
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Name some leading producers of Baden
Bernhard Huber (Malterdingen), Andreas Laible (Durbach), R. and C. Schneider (Endingen), Salwey (Oberrotweil), Dr. Heger (Ihringen), Enderle & Moll (Münchweier)
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Württemberg contains most of Germany's?
Schwarzriesling, and Lemberger (Blaufränkisch)
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Württemberg: the most planted grape in this diverse region is?
Trollinger, better known as Schiava in Italy
Riesling is the most planted white grape in the region and the second most planted grape overall.
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Name the main grapes of Württemberg
Red Grapes (70.2%)
Trollinger: 2,282 ha
Lemberger (Blaufränkisch): 1,666 ha
Schwarzriesling (Meunier): 1,539 ha
Spätburgunder: 1,300 ha
White Grapes (29.8%)
Riesling: 2,125 ha
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One of Württemberg’s most famous estate producers is?
Weingut Graf Neipperg of Schwaigern
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Where is Mittelrhein?
With less than 500 hectares of vines, Mittelrhein is one of Germany’s smallest Anbaugebiete. Adjacent to the Rheingau, the Mittelrhein winegrowing region follows the course of the Rhine River
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Name the bereich of Mittelrhein
Loreley (murmuring rock), Siebengebirge
The vast majority of the Mittelrhein’s vineyards and all of its Grosse Lage sites are located within the southern Bereich of Loreley
In Loreley and throughout Mittelrhein, Riesling is the most planted variety—the grape accounts for almost 70% of the total acreage. With the steep slopes of the Rhine gorge and its Devonian slate soils, conditions are similar to those in the Mosel, but the south-facing orientations essential to producing great Riesling are much rarer in the Mittelrhein.
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Which are the main grapes of Mittelrhein?
Red Grapes (14.7%)
Spätburgunder: 44 ha
White Grapes (85.3%)
Riesling: 309 ha
Müller Thurgau: 26 ha
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Name the best site of Mittelrhein
The Hahn Grosse Lage vineyard, a monopole of Toni Jost in Bacharach, is one of the region's finest sites
A couple of superior, south-facing sites (Bopparder Hamm, Oberweseler Ölsberg) are perched along sharp bends in the Rhine, but most of the Mittelrhein’s best vineyards are secluded in side valleys in Bacharach and Oberwesel.
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Which is the smallest Anbaugebiet in Germany?
Hessische-Bergstrasse known as the “spring garden,”
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Name the main grapes of Hessische-Bergstrasse
Red Grapes (21%)
Spätburgunder: 46 ha
White Grapes (79%)
Riesling: 207 ha
Grauburgunder: 43 ha
Müller-Thurgau: 27 ha
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Name the leading producers of Hessische-Bergstrasse
Hessische Staatsweingüter Domaine Bergstrasse (Bensheim), Simon-Bürkle (Zwingenberg)
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Name the bereich of Hessische-Bergstrasse
Starkenburg, Umstadt
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At 51° N latitude, these are Germany’s northernmost winegrowing regions:
Sachsen and Saale-Unstrut
are located in former East Germany, and were added when the country was reunified in 1990
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Which are the main grapes of Sachsen and Saale-Unstrut?
mainly whites
Müller-Thurgau remains the most planted variety in each region. (Riesling will likely soon overtake it in Sachsen.)
One local specialty claimed by Sachsen is Goldriesling
Several estates make dry to off-dry, lively, aromatic wines with the rare variety.
developed in Alsase
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Who is the leading producer of Sachsen?
Schloss Proschwitz—the region’s largest estate and the first VDP member in Saxony
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Qualitätswein requierements?
51-72° 7% Must be produced from approved varieties sourced from a single anbaugebiet, may be chaptalized
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Qualitätswein "Erstes Gewächs" requierements?
11% Max 60 hl/ha from flat growing areas. Max 70 hl/ha from steep slopes.
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Qualitätswein "Grosses Gewächs" requierements?
12% Max 50 hl/ha. From 1999-2019 Producers in the Rheingau labeled this style of wine as Erstes Gewächs.
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Kabinett, Spatlese and Auslese in alc?
7%
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BA, Eiswein and TBA min alc?
5,5%
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New legally sanctioned terms debuted in 2000, including “Classic” and “Selection,” which were intended to replace?
halbtrocken and trocken
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the four German categories of wine today are the following:
Wein: Formerly Tafelwein, this category carries no geographic designation, although wines may be labeled as
Deutscher Wein if produced from German grapes. Variety and vintage are permitted on the label.
Landwein: An IGP category including trocken and halbtrocken wines produced from any of 26 winegrowing regions, known as Landweingebiete.
Qualitätswein: A PDO category, encompassing most of the country’s top dry wines. This category, inclusive of Prädikatswein, covers 96% of German wine production and almost all exports. In light of the low alcohol levels classically achieved by some of Germany’s finest sweet wines, this category requires wines to acquire a minimum 7% alcohol content, rather than the minimum 8.5% mandated by European law.
Prädikatswein: A PDO category and a subset of Qualitätswein, encompassing all of the country’s best sweet wines. The lower Prädikate require a minimum 7% acquired alcohol; from Beerenauslese on up, the minimum is reduced to 5.5%.
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VDP requierements?
The VDP is a national entity comprising 11 regional associations; today, the organization counts members from all 13 German Anbaugebiete among its ranks. Membership requires a commitment to the VDP’s classification system as well the observance of higher minimum must weights and lower maximum yields than permitted by German law. All wines must be estate grown. Hand-harvesting is required for all single vineyard wines and for any Prädikat wines of Auslese level or above. In their vineyards, members must cultivate a minimum 80% of traditional grape varieties, from selections drawn by each regional association—lists that generally exclude crossings developed for hardiness in the vineyard and high, reliable yields. Additionally, in an effort to restore individualism and impact to the vineyard names of Germany, the VDP prohibits its members from using the loathed Grosslagen of 1971 on their labels. (Out with Grosslagen; long live Grosse Lage.) Member estates are identified by the mandatory presence off the VDP’s logo, the Traubenadler, on bottle capsules.
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Name the categories of Sekt
carbonation is not permitted as a method of production
for any category.
Sekt
Deutscher Sekt
Deutscher Sekt bA
Winzersekt
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Sekt requierements?
These are tank method wines, without mention of grape varieties or vintage, typically made
from a range of base wines sourced from inexpensive regions of southern Europe and made
sparkling in Germany. They can only be sold six months after second fermentation has been
started, with a minimum of 90 days on the lees or 30 if the lees are stirred. They are nonvintage.
This is by far the largest category, accounting for 90 per cent of wines made. These wines
have light intensity fruit and no autolytic notes. They are typically made in the Brut or Extra
Dry style, with noticeable residual sugar and medium acidity. They are acceptable to good in
quality and inexpensive in terms of price.
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Deutscher Sekt requierements?
Deutscher Sekt must be made from German-grown fruit. It may be made by the tank method
or traditional method, be vintage or non-vintage, and made from one variety (minimum 85 per
cent of that variety if it is to be labelled with a single variety) or multiple varieties. The fruit may
come from a number of different German regions. The wine cannot state its region of origin on
the label.
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Deutscher Sekt bA requierements?
‘bA’ is the common abbreviation of bestimmter Anbaugebiete, ‘of a defined region’.
This is sparkling wine related to the general quality category, Qualitätswein bestimmter
Anbaugebiete, quality wine from one of the 13 defined wine- growing regions (e.g. Rheingau).
The name of the region must appear on the label. It may be made by tank method or
traditional method.
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Winzersekt requierements?
Winzersekt (Winzer = winegrower) refers to a sparkling wine which is estate-bottled, uses only
grapes grown by the estate, is made by the traditional method and is kept for a minimum of
nine months on the lees in the bottle. It is most typically made with Riesling, but a range of
other varieties may be used. The vintage, grape variety and producer’s name must appear on
the bottle. If made from Riesling, these wines combine medium intensity apple and peach fruit
with toasty, smoky, autolytic notes. They have high acidity and are typically in the Brut style.
They are very good to outstanding in quality and are mid- to premium-priced.
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What is Perlwein?
Perlwein, more commonly known as Secco, is made either by the tank method or by carbonation from inexpensive base wine, usually with less than three
atmospheres of pressure. These wines are cheaper in Germany than fully sparkling wine
(minimum three atmospheres) as they do not attract tax.
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What does a goldkapsule typically indicate?
A reserve wine of heightened sweetness
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The German Anbaugebiet located closest to the Czech border?
Sachsen
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Kastanienbusch vineyard is in?
Pfalz
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In which month does the German Riesling harvest typically begin?
September
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Which environmental factor is most directly linked to TDN development in Riesling?
excess sunlight
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The capacity of a Halbstück cask is?
600ltrs
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In what century did Silvaner first appear in Franken?
17th
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Where are vines traditionally trained in the single-post system?
Mosel
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Select ALL Anbaugebiete which contain a Grosse Lage site named "Kirchenstück
Pfalz, Rheingau and Rheinhessen
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VDP Riesling labeled with the name of the variety and the word "Muschelkalk" on the front label most likely represents which category of wine?
Ortswein
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Pick the vintage in which botrytis was most widespread in Germany.
2010
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Message in a Bottle refers to a group of producers in the?
Rheinhessen
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Sandstone, limestone, and Keuper soils characterize the three Bereiche of the ?
Franken
