Wset Germany

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What is the 1971 German Wine Laws?

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Each vineyard is delineated and registered and its produce can be used to make wine at any quality level, depending not on yields but on the ripeness, or must weight, of the grapes.

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What is the AP number?

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the 10- to 12-digit number is an outward sign that the wine has passed germany's much-vaunted official testing procedure.

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Grosses Gewachs

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represents the apex of a qualitative pyramid for classifying German wines that has been operative since 2002 within the membership of the VDP wine-growers' association. Wines so designated (but not necessarily so labelled, as the terminology was not recognized by the German Wine Law as recently as 2005) are from traditional grapes and vineyard sites classified (by the VDP) as having demonstrated their historical superiority. The sites in question may be entire Einzellagen or portions of Einzellagen. The category Grosses Gewächs also stipulates that the fruit be cropped at no more than 50 hl/ha, hand harvested, at no less than the must weight required for Spätlese, and the wine be subject to sensory review. Besides attempting to classify, protect, and promote the best vineyard crus of Germany, the VDP regulations for Grosses Gewächs were also intended to stipulate a recognizable style of wine. Grosses Gewächs would have either residual sugar comparable with trocken or the lower permissible end of halbtrocken, or else be nobly sweet wines of Auslese or above. Few growers in the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer were enthusiastic about these stipulations, which effectively eliminated the category of tasteably sweet Spätlese from the top echelon of German wine. In 2005, the VDP regulations had still not been finalized nor embraced by law. Grosses Gewächs wines were therefore typically bottled in glass embossed with a logo featuring a grape cluster and the numeral 1 with a 'front' label designating only the site and vintage. The wines also carried an official label designating Prädikat and generally noting that the wine is trocken.

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Einzellagen

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literally 'individual site' in the wine regions of germany.

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Grosslagen

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Collection of individual sites - open to abuse as most famous site will appear on the label.

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Trocken

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Dry. 4g/l

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Feinherb

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Synonym for halbtrocken

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classic

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official German wine designation introduced in 2000 for dry-tasting wines (maximum 15 g/l residual sugar) vinified from traditional grape varieties, harvested at at least 12 per cent potential alcohol (11.5 per cent in Mosel-Saar-Ruwer).

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selection

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official German wine designation since 2000 for a class of German wines that taste dry (having a maximum 12 g/l residual sugar if Riesling, otherwise 9 g/l) and are hand-harvested from fruit cropped at no more than 60 hl/ha and no less than 12.2 per cent potential alcohol. The area to be picked for Selection must be declared by the vintner no later than 1 May of the growing season. See also German Wine Law.

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Tafelwein

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Tablewine

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Landwein

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Category of Table Wine. Must come from 1 of 17 regions and must be trocken or habtrocken

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Qualitatswein

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Bloated category (95%) for German Wines

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QbA

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Germany's largest wine qualitatswein category. The wine must from only one of Germany's 13 specified wine regions and reach certain minimum ripeness levels in terms of must weight .QbA wines may have their alcohol content increased by enrichment.

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QmP or Pradikatswein

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Must come from one of a single Bereich and must no have their must enriched but can be sweetened using sussereserve.

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Kabinett

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Light in body, crisp acidity, green apple or citrus fruit

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Spatlesse

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Late harvest. Little more body tha n Kabinett. Little sweeter and no green apple. Some tropical fruits

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Auslese

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Richer, sweeter , riper Spatlesse. Individually selected ripe bunches.

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Beerenauslese

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Sweet, botrytised affected grapes individually collected

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Trockenbeerenauslese

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minute quantities. Botrytise. Potentail 21.5abv but actual 8%.

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Eiswein

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Wine made from frozen grapes thus concentrating the must

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VDP

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Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter, the most influential and prestigious German growers' association, incorporating 200 of the finest wine estates in germany

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Schloss Johannisburg

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German wine estate in the rheingau
The vineyards of Schloss Johannisberg itself cover an area of 86 acres, and are planted entirely to Riesling but were not ranked among Germany's finest in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Kloster Erbebach

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monastery in the rheingau now seen as the cultural wine centre of the Rheingau now the home of the educational organization the German Wine Academy and the Rheingau Wine Society.

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Mosel

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A generic name for the wines of Mosel-Saar-Ruwer irrespective of quality

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Piesporter Michelsberg

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A grosslage wine which takes opportunistic advantage of the name Piesporter. Nothing to do with the high quality single vineyard wines of Piesporter Piesporter Goldtröpfchen or Domherr

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Piesporter Goldtröpfchen

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Individual vineyard representing Pinnacle of Mosel wine quality.

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Bernkastel

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Famous wine town in the Mosel

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Name the famous/infamous vineyard at Berkansteler

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Doctor. Which was indiscriminately enlarges and then reduced

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Name a well known producer from Bernkasteler Doctor

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Thanish

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Brauneberg (Juffer-Sonnenuhr),

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Mosel top quality vineyards.

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Graach (Himmelreich),

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Town and top quality Mosel vineyard

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Urzig (Würzgarten),

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Town and top quality Mosel vineyard

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Urzig Wurzgarten typical Riesling aromas?

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Kiwi and strawberries

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Mosel soils?

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Slates

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Mosels average summer temp and hottest month?

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July 18 degC

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Can Eiswein be produced in the Mosel?

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Yes

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Is there a risk of frost in the Mosel?

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Yes in spring , late autumn and winter.

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What is a Bereich?

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A district.

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How mnay bereichs are there in the Mosel. Name one.

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Six. Bernkastel

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What is Bernkastel Badstube?

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A Mosel grosslage

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Where is Bad Kreuznach?

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A Town in the Nahe River

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Describe Nahe wines.

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They are predominantly sweet in character, perhaps resembling (a little at least) those from the Mosel, although the best are marked by an opulent, rich, spicy character

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What is the Grosser ring?

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is an association of some of the finest estates in the mosel-saar-ruwer region of germany, constituting the local branch of the prestigious VDP growers' association

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Grauburgunder

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German synonym for pinot gris used for the increasingly popular dry wines made from this grape in Germany. Sweeter wines are normally labelled ruländer .

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Saar

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river which rises in the Vosges mountains and joins the mosel at Konz, near Trier.

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Erzeugerabfüllung

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German word meaning literally 'producer bottled'.

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Bereich

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German for a district, bigger than a grosslage but smaller than a region or anbaugebiet

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QbA?

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QbA Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete
is Germany's largest wine category, effectively the lower ranks of so-called qualitätswein

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Kerner

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A relatievley new white grape variety. Late budding and achieves musr weight and acidity levels above MT.

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Erstes Gewachs

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Term for Grosses Gewachs used in Rheingau but now being phased out as producers have agreed to use Grosses Gewachs