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What year the German Wine Law came into force?
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1971
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What are the categories German Wines are divided?
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Tafelwein
Landwein (Now unified under Deutscher Tafelwein) QBA - Qualitatswein bestimmer Anbaugebeite QMP - Qualitatswein Mit Predikat |
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What percentage account for the first category?
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3.6%
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How many and what are the Weinbaugebeite?
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13
Ahr Hessiche Bergstrasse Mittlerhein Mosel Nahe Pheingau Rheinhassen Pfalz (Palatinato) Franken Wuttenberg Baden Saale-Unstrut Sachsen (Sassonia) |
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QMP Wines can be chaptalized
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False
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What is the scale used to measure QMP wines?
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The Oeschle scale, measure the amount of sugar in degrees in the must
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What does the number in the AP means?
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The first number (1-9) relates to the German wine region where the wine was produced and tested (e.g. 3-Rheingau). The second 2 or 3 digit number indicates the village of the vineyard (e.g. 30-Rauenthal)). The next two digits represents the particular wine estate (e.g. 50-Kloster Eberbach). The following 2 to 3 digit number is the sequential order that the wine was submitted by that producer for testing (e.g. 031 - this was the 31st wine submitted by Kloster Eberbach for testing). The final two digits is the year of the testing, which is normally the year following the vintage (e.g. 04 - the wine was tested in 2004).
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Vocabulary:
Amlitche Prufunummer Lieblich Edelfaule |
Proof number
sweet Bortritys Cinerea |
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What did the wine laws did with the 30.000 registered einzellagen?
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Compress them into 2600
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Germany's most planted red/white varietal
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Pinot Noir/muller thurgau
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Grosslage
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Collection of vineyard site, ex Rosengarten for vineyards surrounding Rudeshein in the Nahe.
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Most important white grape varietals
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Muller Thurgau
Riesling Silvaner Bacchus Elbling Gewurtztraminer Kerner GrauerBurgunder WeizenBurgunder Scheurebe |
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Most important red grape varietals
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SpatBurgubder (Pinot Noir)
Dornrelder Blauer Portugeiser Schwartz Riesling (Pinot Muniere) 85% minimum |
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What are the 6 different class of QMP wines and what is the classification based on?
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Kabinett
Spatlase Auslse Beerenauslese Trockenbeerenauslese Eiswein Based on the sugar content at the moment of harvest |
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Vocabulary:
Sussreserve Erzeugerabfullung Gutsabfullung |
Unfermented grape juice used in some QBA to balance the acidity
"Producer bottled" (can be bottled out of the estate) "Estate bottled" |
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What is VDP? Levels?
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Verband Deutscher Prädikats- und Qualitätsweingüter e.V. or the Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates, is an organisation where most (but not all) of Germany's top wine producers are members. It is commonly known under its acronym VDP. Its membership includes about 200 wine estates and it was founded in 1910 as Verband Deutscher Naturweinversteigerer e.V., Association of German Natural (i.e. not chaptalized) Wine Auctioneers. It consists of 13 regional associations, one for each region in the German wine classification system.
Grosse Lage - gran cru Erte Lage - premier cru Ortswein - village Gutswein - regional quality |
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What does Grosses Gewachs mean?
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VDP quality that is dry/trocken. Illegal on a label, abbreviated in GG
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Define Liebfraumlich and where you can find it
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Wine made from a grape assemlage, usualy sweet fruity and low in quality, ABQ quality. Rheinhassen, Pfalz, Nahe, Rheingau, Mosel
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What is Weissherbst and SchillerWein?
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Weissherbst, QBA rose from single varietal (usually pinot noir)
Shillerwein rose made blending red and white. Larger percentage of red, Wurttemberg |
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Berheich
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District
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Gold capsule? Long gold capsule?
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Almost exclusively in the mosel region. Wine is high quality and sweet. Longer is richer and sweeter.
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Where are the following:
Piesport Joannishberg Doctor Assmannhausen |
Mosel
Rheingau Mosel Rheingau |
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Rheingau main grape varietal
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Riesling
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Rheingau confines with
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west-mittlerhein
south-Rheinhassen |
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Rheingau soil
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Mixed, slate and quarzite as well as marl
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Bereich Johannisberg
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Only bereich in the region
Best single vineyards: Schloss Johannisberg Schloss Vollrads |
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Why Assmannhausen is different from the other bereich
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Produces 60% Spatburgunder
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Charta
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The label of a CHARTA wine does not mention the vineyard site on which it was grown. CHARTA is a brand. Only a Riesling can be a CHARTA wine . Hand-picked by tries (multiple harvest runs) through the prime vineyards, the CHARTA wine is dry and elegant with a distinct taste of peachy fruit: the ideal food companion.
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Important villages of Rheingau
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Rudesheim
Winkel Johannisberg Oestrich Erbach Hattenheim Rauenthal Eberbach Kiedrich Eltville Rauenthal Hochheim |
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What is Rheingau famous for
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Schloss Johannisberg, where the spatlese style was created in the 18th century
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Rheinhassen confines with:
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north - rheingau
south east - pfalz south west - nahe Largest wine producer in Germany in terms of vineyard area |
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Bereich of Rheinassen
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Bingen - north
Nierstein and Wonnegau - south |
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Main grape for Rheinhassen
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Muller Thurgau
Silvaner only 8% from Riesling, but those are the best quality ones |
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What is Rheinhassen famous for
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Liebfraumilch - QBA quality - Must be from Rheinhassen, Nahe, Pfalz or RHingau, min 70% from Riesling, MT, Sylavenre or Kerner, Min 18g/L sugar
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Pfalz (Palatinato) confines with:
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Rheinhassen - north
Baden - south east France, Alsace - south Largest producing region in terms of quantity |
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Bereich of Pfalz
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Mittlehaardt-Detusche Weinstrasse - north
Sudliche Weinstrasse - south |
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Most planted varietal
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Muller-Thurgau
Riesling Silvaner Scheurebe Spatburgunder Dornfelder |
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Famous villages in Pfalz
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Whachenheim
Forst Deidesheim Ruppertsberg Bad Drukheim Ungstein Kallstadt Neustadt |
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Pfalz soil
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The soil is varied and ranges from sandstone, limestone, marl, loess-loam and granite to isolated stretches of slate. Limestone is particularly common in the northern Pfalz, while loess and loam is more prevalent in the southern Pfalz.
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Nahe confines with
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Rheinhassen - east
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Most planted varietal
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Riesling
Muller Thurgau Silvaner |
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Bereich of Nahe
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Nahatel
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Important towns of Nahe
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Bad Kreuznach
Bad Munster am Stein Norheim Niederhausen |
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Nahe soils
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A characteristic of the Nahe region is that the soils are very varied owing to the region's volcanic origins.
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Franken (Franconia) confines with
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Wurttenberg - south east
Baden- south west |
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Bereich of Franken
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Maindreik
Mainvierek Steigerwald |
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Main grape varaietal
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Muller Thurgau
Silvaner - best wines Riesling Bacchus Scheurebe |
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Key vineyard
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Wurzburg, center of wine trade that has the two outstanding eizellage Stein and Leiste
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Classic Bottle for Franken
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Bocksbeutels
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Region and soil
Maindreik Mainvierek Steigerwald |
Mandreik - chalk (mushelkalk, like chablis kimmeridgian)
Mainvierk - loam on sandstone Steigerwald - marl and gypsum |
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Best wine from Franken
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Steinwein from Wurtzburg - longevity and concentration
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Mosel confines with
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Mittelrhein - north east
Baden - east Luxemburg - south |
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When did they change the name of this Anbaugebeite?
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2008, from Mosel Saar Ruwer to Mosel
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What are the rivers of this region?
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Mosel, Saar Ruwer
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Bereichs of Mosel:
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Bernkastel
Burg Cochem Moseltor Obermosel Ruwertal Saar |
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What is the main feature of the Mosel soil?
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The soil is red granite, it radiates heat into the grapes day and night increasing ripeness, favor drainage and slow down the erosion on the steep slopes
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Most important grape
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Riesling
Muller Thurgau 40% are european grafted, as philloxera does not like slate |
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Best villages of Mosel:
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Bereich Bernkastel located:
Trittenheim Neumagen Piesport Bernkastel Brauneberg Graach Wehlen Zeltingen Urzig Erden |
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Color of the Mosel wine
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Green or Blue
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Great vintages in the Mosel
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1995
1997 1998 2001 2003 2004 2005 |
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AHR confines with
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Mittlerhein - east
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Bereich of Ahr
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Walporzheim-Ahrtal
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Famous for
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Red wine production, 60% total
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Main grape varietals
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Spatburgunder
Blau Potrugeiser Oaked dry good tannic structure |
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Baden confines with
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Pfalz - west
Franken - north Wurttenberg - east France (alsace) - south |
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Bereich of Baden
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Badische Bergstrasse-Kraichgau Badische Frankeland Bodensee Breisgau Kaisersthul Kraichgau Tuniberg Tauberfranken Markgraferland Ortenau |
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What are the similarities with wines from Franken?
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Very similar, fuller, higher alcohol, bocksbeutels bottled
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Soil of Baden
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Baden is a big region, the third in size. Very different soild
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Most planted grape
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Muller Thurgau
Spatburgunder |
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Mittelrhein confines with
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Ahr - north west
Mosel - south west Rheinhassen Rheingau - south east |
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Vineyard caractheristics
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Steeper vineyards in the world, very difficult to manage.
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Bereich of Mittelrhein
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Lorelay
Siebengebirge |
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Most planted rape varietal
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Riesling (70%), but much of this wine is used to produce Sekt
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Hessiche-Bergstrasse confines with
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Franken - north
Baden - south |
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Bereich
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2
Starkenbuerg - full bodied white wines Umstadt - |
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Most planted grape
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Riesling 50%
Muller Thurgau 50% Spatburgunder |
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Interesting facts
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Most of the wines gets produced by co-op, trocken and halbtrocken styles, not much wine get export
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Saale-Unstrut confines with
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None.
Added to Germany with the unification of Germany (other one is Sachsen) |
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Most planted grape
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Muller Thurgau (80%)
Wines produced by co-op Dornfelder |
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Bereich of Saale-unstrut
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Schlossneuenburg -most important north
Touringen - south |
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Sachsen confines with
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None, it's by itself in the north west, formerly GDR. Germany's smaller region.
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Bereichs
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3
Dresden Elstertal Meissen |
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Main grape
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Muller Thurgau
2 big co-op |
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Wurttemberg confines with
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Franken - north east
Baden - east |
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Bereich
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Wuttenbergish Unterland
Remstal-Stuttgard Bayerisher Bodensee Kocher-Jagst-Tauber Oberere Neckar Wuttembergish Bodensee |
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Main Grapes
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Reds
Trollinger Lemberger Schwartzriesling Spatburgunder Schillerwein |
