Pfalz

Question 1

This region in Germany has the world’s largest acreage of Riesling.

Answer 1

Pfalz

Question 2

What is the climate of the Pfalz?

Answer 2

warm, sunny

Question 3

What is the overall style of rieslings from the Pfalz?

Answer 3

dry, more body, weight and alcohol

Question 4

What grapes in the Pfalz are authorized for VDP Grosse Lage bottlings?

Answer 4

Riesling
Spatburgunder
Weissburgunder

Question 5

2 Bereiche of the Pfalz

Answer 5

Northern: Mittelhaardt Deutsche Weinstrasse
Southern: Sudliche Weinstrasse

Question 6

What are the major villages of the Mittelhaardt North to South?

Answer 6

Dirmstein
Grünstadt
Laumersheim
Grosskarlbach
Kirchheim
Weisenheim
Kallstadt
Ungstein
Bad Dürkheim
Wachenheim
Forst
Deidesheim
Ruppertsberg
Gimmeldingen
Mussbach
Haardt
Neustadt
Duttweiler

Question 7

What are the three geographic features of the Mittelhaardt?

Answer 7

Haardt Hills
Palatinate Forest
Rhine River to the East

Question 8

Where is the Pfalz?

Answer 8

South of the Rheinhessen
West of Baden
sits in between the Haardt Hills to the West and the Rhine River to the East
on the western side of the Upper Rhine Plain

Question 9

The best vineyards of the Mittelhardt have these three advantages.

Answer 9

they are midslope
bask in the morning sun
long evening shadow of the Palatinate Forest

Question 10

Where do the greatest concentration of Grosse Lage sites in the Pfalz lie?

Answer 10

between the Forst and Deidesheim

Question 11

What are the three Grosse Lage vineyards under 5a hectares in the Pfalz maintaining their tiny boundaries despite the Flurbereinigung campaign and 1971 wine law.

Answer 11

Hohenmorgen in Deidesheim
Freundstuck in Forst
Kirchenstuck in Forst

Question 12

What is significant about the Kirchenstuck Forst?

Answer 12

finest, warmest, most uniform site in the Mittelhaardt
shared by 8 owners
enclosed by small sandstone wall
planted entirely to riesling
classified in 1828 as the Bavarian kingdom’s best site

Question 13

What are three sites that surround Kirchenstuck?

Answer 13

Freundstuck
Jesuitengarten
Ungeheuer

Question 14

What are some important sites of the Mittelhaardt?

Answer 14

Konigsbacher Idig
Gimmeldingen Mandelgarten
Kallstadter Saumagen

Question 15

What is the finest site North of Forst and why?

Answer 15

Kallstadter Saumagen (Pig’s stomach)
it is an amphitheater like suntrap

Question 16

What are the Drachenfels

Answer 16

Low peaks of the Haardt Hills that protect the hillside vineyards of Mittelhaardt from wind and rain

Question 17

Who are the three B’s of the Pfalz?

Answer 17

Reichsrat von Buhl
Burklin-Wolf
Basserman Jordan

Question 18

What do the three B’s in the Pfalz have in common?

Answer 18

all have parcels in Kirchenstuck

Question 19

Where is Koehler-Ruprecht located?

Answer 19

Kallstadt Saumagen

Question 20

Where is Muller Catoir located and what is he known for?

Answer 20

in the Haardt
makes sweet wines from riesling, scheurebe and Rieslaner in a lusher style

Question 21

What producer in the Pfalz is criticized for adding new barriques and tonneaux to a riesling cellar?

Answer 21

Weingut von Winning

Question 22

What is the climate of the Sudliche Weinstrasse?

Answer 22

warm, sunny, more varied exposures, steeper than the Mittelhaardt

Question 23

What producers helped make a name for the Southern Pfalz’s quality? By when?

Answer 23

Ökonomierat Rebholz
Dr. Wehrheim
Friedrich Becker
by mid 2000s

Question 24

What is the most important site of the Sudliche Weinstrasse?

Answer 24

Birkweiler Kastanienbusch

Question 25

The best examples of Weissburgunder and Spatburgunder in the Sudliche Weinstrasse are in what two vineyards?

Answer 25

Siebeldingen Sonnenschen Schweigen Kammerberg

Question 26

What grapes grow in the Pfalz other than riesling?

Answer 26

Dornfelder Müller-Thurgau Portugieser Spätburgunder Weissburgunder Scheurebe

Question 27

What are the Haardt hills?

Answer 27

A Northern, forest-capped extension of the Vosges Mountains

Question 28

Where is the Mittelhaardt?

Answer 28

Begins about 20 kilometers south of Worms between the villages of Kallstadt and Gimmeldingen.

Question 29

Where is the Südliche Weintrasse.

Answer 29

Southern Bereiche in the Pfalz -picks up south of the city of Neustadt and extends through Schweigen at the Alsatiian border

Question 30

What is the most significant GL in Kallstadt? Who is famous for the reputation of Saumagen?

Answer 30

Saumagen Koehler-Ruprecht

Question 31

Where is Müller-Catoir located?

Answer 31

Haardt

Question 32

What is Fritz-Ritter's alleinbesitz in the Pfalz?

Question 33

What is the soil in Pfalz?

Answer 33

Pfalz soils are extremely varied and complex, with layers of -red sandstone -calcium-based limestone -loess -red slate -basalt -igneous granite -alluvial gravel

Question 34

What is the height of the Haardt Hills?

Answer 34

500-600 meters

Question 35

What is the Pfalz's youngest soils?

Answer 35

Loess

Question 36

What are the major villages of the Südliche Weinstrasse?

Answer 36

Hainfeld Burrweiler Gleisweiler Essingen Siebeldingen Birkweiler Klingenmünster Schweigen

Question 37

What does Südliche Weinstrasse mean?

Answer 37

Southern Pfalz

Question 38

Historically, where do the best vineyards lie and on what aspect?

Answer 38

In the Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse (Northern Pfalz) East facing slopes of the Haardt hills

Question 39

What and where is the Pfalz’s warmest and most exceptional vineyard site?

Answer 39

Grosse Lage Kirchenstück, in the village Forst

Question 40

Most recognized producers in Mittelhaardt?

Answer 40

the "3 Bs" + MC -Bassermann-Jordan, -von Buhl -Bürklin-Wolf + Müller-Catoir

Question 41

Why is there such variation of quality among vineyard sites even if they are close in proximity?

Answer 41

Varied soil types in the Pfalz.

Question 42

What is Palatinate?

Answer 42

The Pfalz, to English speakers

Question 43

Other grapes of up and coming importance in the Pfalz

Answer 43

Pinot varieties Scheurebe for sweet wines (since 40s) Sauvignon Blanc Sangiovese (it's warm!!)

Question 44

Minimum Prädikat Ripeness for Riesling and Müller Thurgau

Answer 44

Kabinett 73° Spätlese 90° Auslese 100° BA/Eiswein 120° TBA 150°

Question 45

Important Einzellagen in Forst

Answer 45

Kirchenstück !!! Freundstück Pechstein Ungeheuer Jesuitengarten

Question 46

Important Einzellagen in Deidesheim

Answer 46

Langenmorgen Hohenmorgen Kieselberg

Question 47

Important Einzellagen in Ruppertsberg

Answer 47

Reiterpfad, Gaisböhl (Bürklin-Wolf monopole)

Question 48

What is Bürklin-Wolf's monopole? Where is it located?

Answer 48

Gaisböhl in Ruppertsberg in the Palz

Question 49

Important Einzellagen in Königsbach

Answer 49

Idig

Question 50

Important Gemeinden and Einzellagen in Südliche-Weinstrasse

Answer 50

Siebeldingen: Im Sonnenschein Birkweiler: Kastanienbusch Schweigen: Kammerberg

Question 51

Premier wine villages of Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse

Answer 51

Kallstadt Ungstein Bad Dürkheim Wachenheim Forst Deidesheim Ruppertsberg N to S

Question 52

Until when was the Pfalz known as the Rheinpfalz

Answer 52

1992

Question 53

Where does the Pfalz fall in terms of production among the anbaugebiete?

Answer 53

2nd, after Rheinhessen nearly a quarter of Germany's vines Worlds largest acreage of Riesling

Question 54

What grapes follow Riesling in terms of sheer quantities?

Answer 54

Dornfelder Müller-Thurgau Portugieser

Question 55

Where does the name weinstrasse come from in the bereichen of the Pfalz?

Answer 55

"Wine route" road opened in 1935 to link picturesque villages and boost tourism

Question 56

What famous wine region is the Mittelhaardt reminiscent of?

Answer 56

Côte d'Or small medieval villages, crowned by church steeples

Question 57

What forest lines the haardt hills

Answer 57

Palatinate Forest

Question 58

How many producers make Kirchenstück?

Answer 58

8 (only vineyard where the "3Bs" all make wine)

Question 59

What producer in the village of Haardt is known for proving classically sweet wines have their place in the Pfalz?

Answer 59

Müller-Catoir (Riesling, scheurebe, Rieslaner)

Question 60

Are the exposures typically steeper in Northern of Southern Pfalz?

Answer 60

Southern

Question 61

What is DC Pfalz?

Answer 61

-Introduced by growers in the Pfalz in 2005 -Modeled off Austrian DAC -Trocken only -Riesling, Grauburgunder, Weissburgunder, Spätburgunder, Dornfelder -Short lived and forgotten! no major producers adopted designation

Question 62

Dr. Bürklin-Wolf alleinbesitz in Pfalz

Answer 62

Ruppertsberg Gaisböhl

Question 63

Muller-Catoir alleinbesitz in Pfalz

Answer 63

Haardt Bürgergarten