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- Name 3 important cities for Riesling in Mosel.
- Piesport / Bernkastel / Wehlen
ドイツのvillage名を書かせる問題が過去にあったとか、なかったとか。綴りが覚えにくいですが、テキストで、太字で書かれたvillageは9個なので、私は念のため覚えました。
Nahe – Schlossbockelheim
Rheingau – Johannisberg / Rudesheim
Rheinhessen – Nierstein
Pfalz – Forst / Deidesheim
- State the climate of Mosel and describe the climatic challenges in this area.
- Cool continental climate. (It has cool, long, growing season)
- It has a risk of spring frost.
- Vines tend to suffer lack of sunlight and grapes struggle to ripen fully.
Germanyの気候は全域に渡ってCool continentalでいけます。
- Explain how the vineyard characteristics help to overcome the challenges.
- The best sites are found on steep with a south facing aspect. The aspect maximizes the available heat and sunlight. It has good drainage for rain and frost.
- Soil contains slate that absorb heat and radiate it. It helps to keep vineyard warm. It has better drainage for rain and frost.
- Vines are head-pruned, staked. The canes tied in at top of stake. It maximizes exposure of sunlight and air circulation.
- Vineyards are located near a river. Reflected sunlight can help the grapes to ripen. Air movement created by water can protect against frosts.
Moselに限らず、他の多くのcool climateエリアで使いまわせる解答です。これがWachau(Austria)であっても、「オーストリアなんて覚えてない！」と焦らず、同じことを書けば、ほぼ大丈夫です。
- Riesling can produce well-balanced wines over a range of differing sweetness levels. State two characteristics that make this possible.
- It can accumulate sugar without losing its high acidity.
- It’s mid to late ripening. It can experience a longer growing season. Therefore it can produce a range of different sweetness levels and alcohol levels.
- The Rheinhessen is known for producing a wide range of styles of red and white wines. What grape variety would be the style for the simplest white wine?
Muller Thurgau
この品種はRiesling×Madeleine Royaleです。Rivanerとも呼ばれます。Silvanerと後半の綴りが同じで少し覚えやすいです。
- Describle the style of a premium Rheinterrasse Riesling.
The wine is likely to be the fullest style of Riesling in Germany.
- What two conditions in the vineyard will contribute to this style?
- Steep east / south-east facing slopes produce riper berries.
- Proximity to the Rhine river will absorb heat for increased ripening and light reflection off the river.
3つ上であった問題の変形です。問われ方の角度が変わったり、表現が変わっても、ブドウがよく熟す条件は同じです。
- Name all of the Pradikatswein in German.
- Kabinett / Spatlese / Auslese / Beerenauslese/ Trockenbeerenauslese / Eiswein
ドイツ語の綴りは、本当に覚えにくい！分解していくと少し覚えやすいです。4つのワインは最後が「lese」で共通ですし、それに「aus」とつければAuslese。「auslese」は３つのワインに共通して入っています。
- Look at the wine and state different aromas you can expect from different cluster.
- Riesling from Rheingau has stone fruits flavors such as peach, apricot.
- Matured Riesling has oil, petrol and kerosene notes.
- Botrytis flavor is honey, apricot and marmalade.
- What is the acidity of this wine. Give a reason for why you think this.
Acidity is medium plus/high. Reisling can ripen fully without losing its acidity.
- Describe key environmental factors for Rheingau that may help create high quality wine.
- The vineyard is closed to river Rhine and river Main. The reflection of sunlight help the grapes ripen fully.
- The bank of the river Rhine and river Main is south-facing steep slope. That maximizes the sunlight and helps the photosynthesis.
- The river can create ideal condition to develop noble rot.
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