Germany-Pfalz, Baden

Question 1

Which region of GR is 2nd most planted?

Answer 1

Pfalz

Question 2

Which region of GR has the largest acreage of Riesling in the world?

Answer 2

Pfalz

Question 3

Which varietals are auth. for VDP bottlings in Pfalz?

Answer 3

Riesling, Spät, Weiss

Question 4

What are the Vosges Mtns called in Pfalz? Which direction do they face?

Answer 4

East facing Haardt Hills

Question 5

What forest is associated w/ Pfalz and is N of the Haardt Hills?

Answer 5

Palantinate Forest

Question 6

What is the major wine route through Pfalz? When and why was it built?

Answer 6

Weinstrasse

Opened in 1935 to link villages and increase tourism

Question 7

What is the soil structure of Pfalz?

Answer 7

Well, how much time do you have?…

Highly complex and varied, like Alsace:

• Alluvial deposits colored by iron oxide=foundation of red sandstone of Palatinate forest and Haardt Hills
• Volcanic activity brought in basalt
• Formation of Alps flooded Rhine Basin w/ seawater then dried, leaving calcareous limestone deposits (Kalkstein=limestone, Muschelkalk=shell limestone)
• Winds brought in youngest loess, sand, and gravel

Question 8

What is the difference between Kalkstein and Muschelkalk?

Answer 8

kalk=limestone

muschel=”shell” limestone

Question 9

Where do the best vineyards of the Pfalz sit?

Answer 9

mid-slope of Haardt hills

Question 10

What are 2 Bereiche of the Pfalz?

Answer 10

Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse (North)

Südliche Weinstrasse (South)

Question 11

What are important villages of Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse?

Answer 11

Kallstadt
Forst
Deidesheim
Ruppertsberg

Question 12

What is most important village of Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse

Answer 12

Forst

Question 13

Which vineyard is the best site N of Forst in Pfalz? Which village? Major producer?

Answer 13

Kallstadter Saumagen (ampitheater shaped)

by Koehler-Ruprecht

Question 14

What are best vineyard sites of Forst?

Answer 14

a. Freundstück
b. Kirchenstück
c. Jesuitengarten
d. Ungeheur

Question 15

Which einzellage is historically considered the best of Pfalz? Why?

Answer 15

Kirchenstück

3.37 ha, warmest site, clos, top producers have a piece

Question 16

How many owners are there of Kirchenstück? Name 4

Answer 16

8

Eugen Muller

Basserman-Jordan
von Buhl
Bürklin-Wolf

Question 17

What does Kirchenstück translate to?

Answer 17

church parcel

Question 18

What are 3 vineyards of Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse that are under 5ha?

Answer 18

• Forster Freundstück
• Forster Kirchenstück
• Deidesheimer Hohenmorgen

Question 19

What are best vineyards of Ruppertsberg?

Answer 19

Reiterpfad

Gaisböhl

Question 20

Who is the alleinbesitz owner of Gaisböhl?

Answer 20

Bürklin-Wolf

Question 21

Who are best producers of Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse?

Answer 21

Three-B’s” (Reichsrat von Buhl, Bürklin-Wolf, Basserman Jordan), von Winning, Koehler-Ruprecht

Question 22

Which region of the Pfalz is considered up and coming?

Answer 22

Südliche Weinstrasse since early 2000s

Question 23

Where will you find the best Spät and Weiss produced in the Pfalz?

Answer 23

Südliche Weinstrasse

Question 24

What is the main difference in the way the vineyards of the Südliche are situated versus the Mittelhaardt?

Answer 24

Most vineyards are steeper and further tucked into the Haardt Hills than in Mittelhaardt

Question 25

What are the primary villages and associated vineyards of the Südliche Weinstrasse?

Answer 25

Siebeldingen (Im Sonnenschein) Schweigen (Kammerberg)

Question 26

Which vineyard of Pfalz straddles the border of Alsace? Which varietal is cultivated there? By whom?

Answer 26

Kammerberg (in Schweigen of Südliche) Spätburgunder by Friedriech Becker

Question 27

Who are primary producers of Südliche Weinstrasse?

Answer 27

Rebholz (Siebeldigen) Friedriech Becker (Schweigen)

Question 28

what legal classification of Pfalz was introduced in 2005? For what styles?

Answer 28

Pfalz DC (a la Austrian DAC) For trocken styles of Riesling, Grau, Weiss, Spät, and Dornfelder

Question 29

Who has adopted the Pfalz DC system?

Answer 29

no friends of mine

Question 30

Which region of GR has the most PN planted?

Answer 30

Baden

Question 31

Which varietals are permitted in VDP Grosse Lage bottlings of Baden?

Answer 31

Spät, Weiss, Grau, Riesling, Chard all permitted in VDP Grosse Lage

Question 32

Which region of GR has the longest history of PN production? Who introduced and when?

Answer 32

Baden by Carolingian Emperor Charles the Fat in 884

Question 33

What region of GR is most associated w/ the Black Forest?

Answer 33

Southern Baden?

Question 34

Which body of water is on the border of Germany and Switzerland? Which region of GR does it inform?

Answer 34

Lake Constance Baden

Question 35

What is general soil structure of Baden?

Answer 35

like Alsace, a mosaic of granite, volcanic, calcareous, loess

Question 36

Which Bereich of Baden is best for Riesling? primary village?

Answer 36

Ortenau Baden-Baden

Question 37

Which Bereiche of Baden are most associated w/ PN production? Which is best?

Answer 37

Ortenau Breisgau Kaiserstuhl** (best) Tuniberg

Question 38

Which Bereich of Baden has the warmest and sunniest climate in GR?

Answer 38

Kaiserstuhl

Question 39

What are primary villages of Kaiserstuhl?

Answer 39

Achkarren | Ihringen**

Question 40

What is best vineyard in village of Ihringen? What is unique here?

Answer 40

Winklerberg (hottest vineyard in GR) Baden (anbaug) Kaiserstuhl (Bereich) Ihringen (Gemeinde) Winklerberg (Einzellage)

Question 41

What is the Bereich of Baden for Lake Constance?

Answer 41

Bodensee (GR trans)

Question 42

What is on the Swiss side of Lake Constance?

Answer 42

Village of Thurgau, where grape breeder of M-T Hermann Müller was born

Question 43

What is the southernmost point of Baden? Connected to which Swiss city? Which grape is grown here but no where else in the region?

Answer 43

Markgräferland Swiss city of Basel and French border Swiss Chasselas grows here

Question 44

Who are primary producers of Baden?

Answer 44

Bernhard Huber Andreas Laible Salwey