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International Pinot Noir Tasting, London 2011
German Pinot Noir came up trumps at a recent International Pinot Noir tasting, with seven of the judges top 10 wines coming from Germany. The blind tasting, which was judged by a world-class panel of wine experts including Jancis Robinson MW, Xavier Rousset MS and Peter McCombie MW, was organised by the German Wine Institute and chaired by Tim Atkin MW.
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How to pronounce German Wine - Was wir Ihnen eigentlich nicht zeigen wollten...
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How to pronounce German Wine
Listen to our speakers and learn how to pronounce the most important terms connected with German Wines. From A - Z or in this case from Ahr to Württemberg.
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Sachsen - German wine-growing region
What the bocksbeutel is to the Franconians, the club-shaped bottle is to the Saxons. This peculiar bottle which resembles a bowling pin was inven- ted in 1931 in the former Weinbau-Versuchs- und
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Lehranstalt HofloÌ?ßnitz (viticulture research and teaching institute) near Dresden. With its
museum, wine bar and vineyard HofloÌ?ßnitz is still a centre of Saxon wine culture
worth visiting.
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Saale-Unstrut - German wine-growing region
The –Romantic Roadâ? and the –Skywalkâ? run along the Saale-Unstrut Wine Route. Castles and palaces such as the Neuenburg and the Rudelsburg, important
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buildings like Naumburg Cathedral and mystical sites such as the place where the Sky Disk of Nebra was found tell of the cultural history of the country. Freyburg on the Unstrut is con- sidered the secret wine capital of the area. Every year on the second weekend in September, the largest wine festival of the
region is held here. Exploring this wine-growing region and its wines, vineyards, wine taverns and seasonal vintners wine bars is a lot of fun as there is a well-developed network of cycle paths, walking tracks and waterways. The
largest part of the region is located in the Saale-Unstrut-Triasland conservation
area.
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Wuerttemberg - German wine-growing region
Sommeliers, wine connois- seurs, and people liv- ing in the growing areas
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know that there is an appropriate glass for every type of wine. In WuÌ?rttemberg, this is a very strange receptacle: a glass mug. The only wine glass without
a stem has a convenient handle on its side and is mostly used in the traditional wine taverns. In gen-
eral, the inhabitants of WuÌ?rttemberg drink more wine than the people in all the other regions
in Germany.
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Ahr - German wine-growing region
One of the first wine- growers– cooperatives in the world and the
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first one in Germany was founded in Mayschoß in 1868. And this is why it happened: bad harvests and oppressive duties meant that many winemak- ing families could no longer subsist on their work
in the winery. Some emigrated, others joined to- gether to collectively operate a wine cellar. An
idea that works to this day – not only in the Ahr region!
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Baden - German wine-growing region
Among the excellent white wines from Baden is the –Klingelber- gerâ?. This is simply a
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Riesling known by that name in the Ortenau. The name stems from the Klingelberg vineyard, part of the Schlossberg at Durbach where Margrave Carl Friedrich of Baden, master of the Staufenberg Castle
winery, had Riesling planted in 1782. The fact that this vineyard was first planted with only
a single variety, was an innovation at that time.
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Franken - German wine-growing region
One of the most famous Franken vineyards and the oldest documented vineyard site by name in
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Germany is the –WuÌ?rzburg Steinâ?. Steinwein has long been a synonym for Franken wine. A 1540s Steinwein is today still stored in the cellar of the BuÌ?rgerspital winery in WuÌ?rzburg. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the German
national poet, was a pronounced connoisseur of Steinwein. On 17 June 1806 he wrote to his wife
Christiane: –Please send me some WuÌ?rzburg wine, no other wine tastes as nice, and I
am in a surly mood if I lack my usual favourite drink.â?
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Hessische Bergstrasse - German wine-growing region
The Oden- wald forest has an –islandâ?, namely the Odenwald wine island. This is of course not a real island,
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but a small wine-growing region slightly separated from the rest of the Hessische Bergstraße around the
town of Groß-Umstadt to the west of Darmstadt. Wine is cultivated here on a mere 62 hectares not far from the Hessian metropolis Frankfurt am Main which also has a vineyard, the Lohberg. However, this is firstly part of the Rheingau region, and secondly the Frank-
furt people explicitly prefer a different kind of wine – that made from apples – called
–Ebbelwoiâ?.
More information about the German wine region of Hessische Bergstrasse at:
www.bergstraesser-wein.de
