WSET Germany Advanced

EU climate Zone A, except Baden.
Continental gives warm summers, cold winters.
Rain year long, most in July & August.
Late spring frosts are regular.
Heavy rain and hail during summer.
Long autumns, cold sept slows ripe.

Riesling, Silvaner, M. Thurgau, Kerner, Mario-Muscat, Scheurebe
Spatburgunder, Dornfelder

designated quality wine region..13

district within an Anbaug.

a commune

a group of adjoining vineyards, usually the label will show the best village

individual vineyard

Deutscher Tafelwein=lowest level, less than 5%
Landwein=1982, = to VDP, 17 areas, must be troken or halbtroken, 5 % of the German pro.

come from a single Anbaugebeit (13)

grapes come from a single Anbau. and from a single bereich.
Musts not enriched, sussreserve is permitted.

dry, min 12% alcohol (11.5% the Mosel)

like classic, must be auslesse ripeness (min 12.2%), must come from an Einzellage that will be named on the label. Yeilds are more stringent & mechanical harvesting is not permitted.

at least 18g/l residual sugar. QbA
From Rheinhessen, Pfalz, Rheingau, Nahe

8% of vines supported by posts, tight spacing on slopes, system mainly followed in the Mosel.
Majority of vines are being planted on valley floors,trained along wires with wide spacing for mechanization.
Local trade assoc. will announce when harvest will start. A series of warm growing seasons 98-03

permitt needed to chap or de-acidify. Acidif. is forbidden. Chap not allowed for QmP. Sussreserve is allowed for all levels.
only 25% growers make their own wine, others sell to co-ops

Piesport,
Brauneberg,
Bernkastel,
Wehlen,
Graach,

Schlossbockelheim

Rudesheim, geisenheim, johannisberg, Winkel, Oestrich, Erbach, Eltville, Hochheim

oppenheim
Nierstein

Forst, Deidesheim

K aiserstuhl Spatburgunder

amtliche prufungsnummer: adorns every bottle of QmP & QbA
10 to 12 digit #. It tells the tasting station, vine location, bottlers code, year tasted