Quiz & Quote #6

"In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary."

- Ernest Hemingway

Quiz #6 - German Wine Lingo

1. "Naturwein" refers to:
Organically produced wine Wine made with only idigenous yeasts Historically an unchaptalized wine Wine that is unfined and unfiltered
2. The highest VDP quality designation, similar to Grand Cru of Burgundy is:
Grosses Gewachs Pradikatswein Auslese Qualitatswein
3. Sussreserve refers to:
The highest quality designation for sweet wines A sweet style of Sekt Addition of unfermented grape juice Off-dry Mosel Riesling aged at least 3 years
4. The QmP wine category with the lowest must weight is:
Spatlese Auslese Tafelwein Kabinett
5. Which of the following is one of Germany's 5 most planted wine grape varieties?
Lemberger Dornfelder Traminer Weissburgunder