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Nobel prize-winner designs Fattoria Nittardi labelNobel prize-winning German author Gunter Grass has designed the label for the latest vintage of the top Chianti Classico produced by Tuscan winery Fattoria Nittardi.
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Germany ‘smallest harvest’ for 25 yearsGermany is poised for its smallest wine harvest in a quarter of a century after cold weather at flowering and localised hailstorms affected production.
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Mainz/Rheinhessen celebrates the “Best of Wine Tourism Award” winners for 2011 -
Kabinett (Ger.)
German and Austrian quality wine designation, the base level in the QmP Pradikat system.
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Oechsle
Widely used German scale
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QbA (Qualittswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete)
Basic level of German quality wine.
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QmP (Qualittswein mit Pradikat)
Higher level of German quality wine.
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Qualittswein (Ger.)
Quality wine.
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Spatlese (Ger.)
German and Austrian quality wine category, meaning late harvest.
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Sussreserve (Ger.)
Sweet reserve.
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Tafelwein (Ger.)
Table wine.
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Trocken (Ger.)
Dry.
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Trockenbeerenauslese
German and Austrian quality wine category, meaning 'selected dried berries'.
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Ursprungslage
German label term proposed as a replacement for Grosslage.
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Wein (Ger.)
Wine.
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Weingut (Ger.)
Wine estate.
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Weissherbst (Ger.)
Pale pink
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Winzergenossenschaft (Ger.)
Co-operative
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Anbaugebiet (Ger.)
Term used to indicate the 13 major wine regions of Germany.
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AP Nr
Number found on German wine labels, indicating that the wine has undergone an official tasting and chemical analysis.
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Auslese (Ger.)
Quality white wine category, meaning selected harvest.
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Beerenauslese (Ger.)
Quality white wine category, meaning 'selected grapes'.
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Gluhwein (Ger.)
Wine served hot,
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Grosslage (Ger.)
Under German wine law, name of a group of neighbouring Einzellage sites producing wines of a similar style.
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Gutsabfllung (Ger.)
Estate bottled.
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Halbtrocken (Ger.)
Medium dry.
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Hock.
Anglo-saxon term for any German wine from the Rhine.
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Landwein (Ger.)
German wine designation, roughly equivalent to the French Vin de Pays.
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Mosel Bridge financially unviable, opponents claimA new financial evaluation of the controversial Mosel Bridge proves the project is not worth completing, say opponents of the bridge.
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Giles MacDonogh
Giles MacDonogh, Regional Chair for Austria and Germany
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Victory of German Greens offers hope to Mosel bridge opponents
Opponents of the controversial Mosel Bridge project are hoping the German Green Party’s spectacular recent successes at the polls will swing the debate their way.
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Opponents distraught as Greens approve Mosel bridge projectThe deeply-unpopular Mosel Bridge project will go ahead despite hopes that a resurgent Green Party would vote it down.
