Until when was the Mosel known as Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
August 1, 2007
What is goldkapsel
- Gold capsule indicates richer, “reserve” wines based on higher must weight
- Used only in Mosel
Lange Goldkapsel
- Longer gold capsule indicating even more richness
- Subverted 1971 law that feine and hochfeine could not be used on label inaddition to prädikat level
Mosel River Geography
- Flows from Vosges Mountains in France, eastward into Germany for 206 km
- Joins tributaries Saar and Ruwer
- Merges with the Rhine at Koblenz at the border of the Mittelrhein
6 Bereichen of Mosel
Bernkastel Burg Cochem Saar Ruwertal Obermosel Moseltor
What is the largest and most significant bereiche of Mosel
Bernkastel
Name 2 important villages in Bernkastel
Trittenheim Piesport Brauneberg Bernkastel-Kues Graach-an-der-Mosel Wehlen Zeltingen Ürzig Erden
What is the area with Burg Cochem, Bernkastel and Ruwertal referred to as
Mittelmosel
What is the soil of the mittelmosel
Blue devonian slate, except near Erden (red slate)
Greatest Einzellagen in Piesport
Goldtröpfchen
“droplets of gold”
Two producers of Goldtröpfchen
Reinhold Haart
Reichsgraff von Kesselstatt
“sundial” vineyards
Wehlener Sonnenuhr
Zeltinger Sonnenuhr
Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr
Who makes best examples of Bernkasteler Lay
Dr. Loosen
Who owns alleinbesitz Josephshöfer
Reichsgraff von Kesselstatt, in Graach
Who makes great examples of Ürziger Würzgarten
Joh. Jos. Prüm estate
Dr. Loosen
What is notable about the einzellagen Prälat and Treppchen
The soil is red slate instead of blue
Praälat is one of the warmest sites in Mosel
What is warmer, the Mittelmosel or the Saar Valley?
Mittelmosel because Saar is higher elevation even though it is further south
Define: Füder
1000-liter cask common in the Mosel
One of the Mosel’s finest sites, found within the gemeinden Wiltingen…
Scharzhofberger
Egon Müller
What makes viticulture more difficult in Ruwer
The Ruwer river is smaller, almost like a stream. Since the valley is not as carved out, the temperature is not mitigated as it is in the Mittelmosel.
Two exemplary monopoles in Ruwer
- Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg (part of a trio of monopoles owned by the von Schubert-Grünhaus estate)
- Eitelsbacher Karthäuserhofberg, owned by Karthäuserhof
What is the Terrassenmosel
“Terraced Mosel”
-Burg Cochem, (the lower Mosel Valley,) from the village of Zell north to Koblenz
What is the dominant grape in Obermosel and Moseltor
Elbling
Important Einzellagen in Saarburg
Rausch
