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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Subject: Re: 3 German wine recommendations?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.043423.435@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <92364.35432.6648470@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> <1hqcv1INN8lk@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:34:23 GMT
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- In article <1hqcv1INN8lk@shelley.u.washington.edu> dst@hardy.u.washington.edu (Dale Tanigawa) writes:
- >In article <92364.35432.6648470@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> 6648470@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
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- >>Just a few general notes.
- >> German wines are sweeter (normally) than french or french style wines.
- >> They are graded and you should look for Qualitiswien (sp?) or
- > Qualitatswein, or Quality Wine
- >> Qualitiswein mit Pradikat (sometimes abreviated QMP). If you select
- > mit Pradikat means "with praise", they are better wines
- >than just Qualitatsweins
- >> a QMP wine it may have a predicate (Pradikat). These include
- >> Trocken (dry) (not very sweet)
- >Never saw a Trocken on the shelves in Germany. They must export them all
- >to the dry drinking Americans. :)
-
- You haven't been there in a while, then, or picked up a copy of
- Alles ueber Wein. The Trockens are picking up nicely.
-
- >> Auslese (sweeter)
- >> Spatlese (sweeter than that)
- >You have the above two mixed around.
-
- Yes.
-
- >Spatlese means "late season" and
- >Auslese means "out of season".
-
- No.
-
- Spaetlese means "late harvest." Auslese means "select harvest."
- The "lese" root in general means selection or picking. Auslese
- in general means selection. Beerenauslese means the selection of
- individual berries, i.e., grapes.
-
- >The later the grapes are picked the more
- >sugar they have and the sweeter the resulting wine.
-
- That's the theory. 8-)
-
- Cheers!
- Roger
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