Image Bopparder Hamm.jpg thumb 300px The vineyard site Boppard er Hamm in the Mittelrheinregion, with river Rhine in the foreground. German wine regions Mittelrhein or Middle Rhine is a region Anbaugebiet for quality German winewine in Germany , ref name wein.de http www.wein.de 1455.0.html Wein.de ... engl.html Mittelrhein Wein.com , website on the region s wines coord missing Germany Category Wine regions ... until Koblenz . On the right bank, vineyards begin where Rheingau wineregion Rheingau ends and last until 8 kilometers south of Bonn , in the Siebengebirge . ref name OCW Mittelrhein J. Robinson ed , The Oxford Companion to Wine , Third Edition, p 445 446, Oxford University Press 2006, ISBN 0198609906 ref Parts of the Rhine Gorge , a UNESCO World Heritage since 2002, make up the southern part of Mittelrhein. ref http www.mittelrhein wein.com weinland index engl.html Mittelrhein wein.com , accessed on March 21, 2008 ref The region s convert 461 ha of vineyards 2008 situation are dominated by white wine grapes 85 to a higher extent than any other wineregion of Germany with the exception of Mosel wineregion Mosel . ref name Statistics 09 10 http www.deutscheweine.de icc Internet DE med 0be 0be2f08f a4a0 4218 cb63 6a55f440fd33,11111111 1111 1111 1111 111111111111.pdf German Wine Institute German wine statistics 2009 2010 ref With the much appreciated Riesling being the most grown variety ... km stretch of river Rhine in the touristic portions of the Rhine region known as Middle Rhine . On the left ... is quite the opposite, since the region s planted area have been shrinking for quite some time, the region s wines are hardly ever seen on export markets, and seem to be rather unknown even inside Germany. Mittelrhein is divided into two districts Bereiche . In the north, four villages which ... of Lahn , a tributary of Rhine. ref http www.mittelrhein wein.com weinland lagen.html Mittelrhein wein.com Die Weinlagen im Anbaugebiet Mittelrhein , accessed on March 21, 2008 ref Grape varieties ... more details
Mittelrhein may refer to Middle Rhine German Mittelrhein , the Rhine River between Bingen and Bonn, Germany Mittelrheinwineregion , region Anbaugebiet for quality wine in Germany disambig ... more details
replaced the Provinces of Prussia Prussian province in the Middle Rhine German Mittelrheinregion. From 1941, the Gauliga Mittelrhein was split into two separate leagues, the Gauliga K ln ... and the Belgium Belgian region of Eupen Malmedy . Overview Gauliga Mittelrhein The league was introduced ... VfL 99 K ln SpVgg S lz 07 style font size 12px Gauliga Moselland TuS Neuendorf The Gauliga Mittelrhein ... and the Eupen Malmedy region, the German speaking part of Belgium which had been annexed to the Gau after the German victory in 1940. However, no club from this formerly Belgian region did play ... of nine teams. Due to the arrival of the war in the region and the conquest of Aachen by the allied ... had seven clubs. With the arrival of allied forces in the region in late 1944, football was of low ... era, the Gauligas ceased to exist and the northern part of the region found itself in the United ... K lner CfR K lner SC 99 FV 1911 Neuendorf Fortuna Kottenheim , champion Mittelrhein division SV Rhenania K ln Winners and runners up of the Gauliga Gauliga Mittelrhein class wikitable align center bgcolor ... Esch Placings in the Gauliga 1933 44 Gauliga Mittelrhein & K ln Aachen class wikitable Club 1934 ... archiv.de title Gauliga Mittelrhein & K ln Aachen accessdate 2009 04 10 publisher Das deutsche Fussball ... Community of Belgium de Gauliga Mittelrhein fr Gauliga Rhin moyen nl Gauliga Mittelrhein ... more details
the border with the Czech Republic , the region has a continental climate wine continental climate ... s of the area are similar to the Austria n Wachau wineregion. ref name Oxford pg 599 Grapes and wine ... has a long winemaking tradition with evidence of viticulture in the region dating as far back ... . The majority of the wine production, around 90 , is in sweetness of wine dry wine . ref name Oxford ... References reflist coord missing Saxony Category Geography of Saxony Category Wine regions of Germany ... more details
of the Mosel wineregion. The MittelrheinwineregionMittelrhein and Rheingau wine regions lie to the north northeast with the Rheinhessen wineregion Rheinhessen forming the region s eastern border ...Image Naheland01.jpg thumb 350px Vineyards in Nahe German wine regions Nahe is a region Anbaugebiet for quality German winewine in Germany , ref name wein.de http www.wein.de 1458.0.html Wein.de German ... the Nahe wineregion was defined only with the 1971 German wine law . Before that, the wines were ... as being on par with the best wines of Mosel wineregion Moselle and Rheingau wineregion ... pg 362 363 Dorling Kindersley 2005 ISBN 0756613248 ref Climate and geography The Nahe wineregion ... foster diverse microclimate wine microclimate s through the region. The Soonwald ranges to the northeast ... thumb 350px Nahe wine regions The majority of the vineyards in the Nahe wineregion are found along ... Nahe, shares a name with Grosslagen in the Rheingau and Franconia wineregion Franconia . Most ... after World War II in sustaining the reputation of Nahe wine but the Bad Kreuznach region, as a whole ... left thumb 200px VDP auction of Nahe and Ahr wineregion Ahr wines at Bad Kreuznach. The Nahe is a predominantly white wineregion with Riesling being the most significant planting. Riesling s prominence ... s history, grapes from the region were blended with other German wine grapes and labeled as Rhine ... having the largest export market of the region. Unlike other German wine regions, co operatives ... of Germany state of Rhineland Palatinate . On the region s convert 4155 ha of vineyards in 2008, white wine grapes dominate with 75 and Riesling is the most common variety with 27.2 . ref name Statistics ... 1111 1111 1111 111111111111.pdf German Wine Institute German wine statistics 2009 2010 ref A characteristic of the Nahe region is that the soils are very varied owing to the region s volcanic origins. Although the region was populated already in Ancient Rome Roman times, and the village of Monzingen ... more details
image Imagen 186.jpg thumb 250px View of Aconcagua Valley, one of the wine districts of Aconcagua wineregion Aconcagua is one of the five principal wine regions of Chile . It encompasses all wine growing areas in Valpara so Region . The Aconcagua wineregion is composed of three minor wine distriicts Casablanca Valley , Aconcagua Valley and Leyda Valley . ref http www.vuw.ac.nz caplabtb m302w06 history chile wines.pdf The history and Development of Chilean Wines ref References reflist Category Wine regions of Chile ... more details
Infobox WineRegion name Niederlausitz image type Weinbaugebiet for table wine Tafelwein and country wine Landwein year 2007 country Germany climate region EU wine growing zone A total size 11 hectares 2007 grapes varietals wineries wine produced Brandenburger Landwein Niederlausitz is a small region for table wine and country wine in eastern Germany , which was defined in an amendment to the German wine law in 2007. It is located in Brandenburg , which is the federal state surrounding Berlin . The designation Brandenburger Landwein is used for country wines from this region. ref name WeinV 1995 http www.bundesrecht.juris.de bundesrecht weinv 1995 gesamt.pdf Weinverordnung WeinV 1995 , updated until Art. 1 V v. 11.3.2008 I 383 , 1 for Tafelwein and 2 for Landwein ref Niederlausitz is not part of the 13 well established German wine regions for quality wine usually referred to as Anbaugebiete , and is located to the north of all of them, but south of Stargarder Land wineregion Stargarder Land , which was defined in 2004. This means that Niederlausitz wineries are not allowed allowed to produce wine of all quality levels of the German wine classification . Only the lower part Tafelwein table wine and Landwein country wine and not the higher quality wine categories Qualit tswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete QbA and Pr dikatswein may be produced. Currently, the Niederlausitz region covers only convert 11 ha acre of vineyards spread out over 14 locations. ref http www.welt.de wissenschaft article998983 Weinreben im Tagebaugebiet.html Welt Online July 5, 2007 Weinreben im Tagebaugebiet ref A peculiar aspect of the Niederlausitz region is that some of the vineyards are planted in former Surface mining coal strip mines . ref http www.tagesspiegel.de berlin art270,2365865 Tagesspiegel.de August 25, 2007 Tagebau Kabinett Wein aus Lausitzer Landen ref References Reflist coord missing Brandenburg Category Wine regions of Germany Category Geography of Brandenburg ... more details
The Grampians is an Australian wineregion located in the state of Victoria Australia Victoria , west of Melbourne . It is located near the Grampians National Park and the Pyrenees Victoria Pyrenees hills. The area is dominated by red wine production, particularly Shiraz grape Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon . ref name Oxford pg 734 J. Robinson ed The Oxford Companion to Wine Third Edition pg 734 Oxford University Press 2006 ISBN 0198609906 ref See also Victorian wine References reflist coord 37 14 35.6 S 142 16 31 E type landmark region AU display title Category Wine regions of Victoria Australia Category Regions of Victoria Australia wineregion stub ... more details
Use dmy dates date November 2011 Infobox WineRegion name Stargarder Land image type Weinbaugebiet for table wine Tafelwein and country wine Landwein year 2004 country Germany climate region EU wine growing zone A total size 3.7 hectares grapes varietals wineries wine produced Mecklenburger Landwein Stargarder Land is a small region for country wine in northeastern Germany, which was defined in an amendment to the German wine law on 4 March 2004. Located in Mecklenburg Vorpommern , approximately 100 km north of Berlin, it is by far the northernmost official wine growing area of Germany. The designation Mecklenburger Landwein is used for country wines from this region. ref name WP SL http www.wein ... vineyard site in other regions. The smallest of the 13 regions for quality wine is Saxony wineregion Saxony , which in 2006 had convert 416 ha acre of vineyards, and the largest was Rheinhessen wineregion Rheinhessen with convert 26281 ha acre . ref name Statistics 07 08 http www.deutscheweine.de ... of a newly created oddity in the German wine regulations, and the region is generally not considered ... outside the regions. ref name WP SL The region s wine is produced by two small winemaking cooperative ... tradition was necessary in order to be defined as a wineregion in 2004. The modern history ... on 5 May 2008 ref In two respects, Stargarder Land is different from all other wine regions in Germany. First, the 13 well established German wine regions usually referred to as Anbaugebiete are all allowed to produce wine of all quality levels of the German wine classification , while Stargarder Land is only allowed to produce wines belonging to the lower part Tafelwein table wine and Landwein country wine and not the higher quality wine categories Qualit tswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete QbA and Pr dikatswein . Since the name of the wineregion is always displayed prominently on the German wine label labels of German quality wines, but not the lesser categories, this is a significant difference ... more details
city 4415 region AU WA scale 50000 format dms display title Infobox WineRegion name Margaret River image Margaret River wine region.jpg caption Margaret River wineregion official name other name type year wine years country Australia part of similar sub regions season climate region heat units precipitation ... River wineregion cite web url http www.wineaustralia.com australia Default.aspx?tabid 4527 work Margaret River WineRegion title Margaret River WineRegion accessdate 2009 8 10 ref total size ... Margaret River WineRegion Retrieved 6 September 2009. ref vineyards grapes varietals Riesling ... The Australian Wine Encyclopedia cite book title The Australian Wine Encyclopedia publisher Hardie Grant Books year 2009 ISBN 978 1 74066 774 6 author James Halliday pages 166 167 ref wine produced designation comments Margaret River is the foremost Geographical Indication wineregion in the South ... River, Western Australia Margaret River wineregion is made up predominately of boutique size wine ... cite web url http www.margaretriverwine.org.au aboutregion.php work Margaret River wineregion title Margaret River wineregion accessdate 2009 09 07 ref ref The Australian and New Zealand wine ... Margaret River wineregion history title Margaret River wineregion history accessdate 2009 06 29 ... Estate Vasse Felix ref name Margaret River wineregion cite web url http www.wineaustralia.com australia Default.aspx?tabid 4527 work Margaret River WineRegion Climate title Margaret River WineRegion ... Australian wine Great Southern WineRegion References reflist 2 External links Margaret River Visitor Centre http www.margaretriver.com The Margaret River wineregionWine Australia http www.wineaustralia.com ... en Towns and Regions Margaret River WineRegion Pages Margaret 20River.aspx The Margaret River wineregionWine Regions of Western Australia DEFAULTSORT Margaret River WineRegion Category ... around 7000 tonne. The climate of Margaret River is more strongly maritime influenced wine maritime ... more details
Infobox WineRegion name Palatinate image Gimmeldingen weinberg im herbst mit weinbiet.jpg official name other name Pfalz wine years Since 1st century AD country Germany part of Rhineland Palatinate sub regions climate region heat units precipitation soil total size planted 233.4 km vineyards 350 grapes varietals wineries wine produced designation comments 2.5 million Hectoliter hl produced annually Palatinate lang de Pfalz is a German wine growing List of wine producing regions region Weinbaugebiet ..., the region is the second largest wineregion in Germany after Rheinhessen wineregion Rheinhessen ... wine regions The Palatinate wineregion overlaps with, but is not coextensive with, the traditional German region of Palatinate region Palatinate , making up only 5 of its area. The wineregion is an 80 ... and driest of German wine regions. The vineyards are planted on a mixture of sandstone and volcanic List of vineyard soil types soil . ref name Oxford pg 516 517 Subregions The region is divided into two districts Bereich , S dliche Weinstra e Southern Wine Route in the south and Mittelhaardt Deutsche Weinstra e Central Haardt German Wine Route in the north. The Northern vineyards are located north of Neustadt an der Weinstra e in a region often listed on German wine label wine ... half litre Dubbeglas used for serving wine in the Palatinate wineregion. Unlike in other German .... The German Wine Route Deutsche Weinstra e traverses this wineregion. The region also produces ... cb63 6a55f440fd33,11111111 1111 1111 1111 111111111111.pdf German Wine Institute German wine statistics 2009 2010 ref There are about 6,800 vintner s producing around 2.5 million hectolitre s of wine ... region the Romans brought the cultivated vine and winegrowing techniques around 1 A.D. Several Roman landhouses villa rusticae were found in the Palatinate region, for example near Wachenheim and Ungstein ... notice for their quality. ref name Oxford pg 516 517 J. Robinson ed The Oxford Companion to Wine Third ... more details
Coord 35 S 117 E source svwiki region AU type city display title Infobox WineRegion name Great Southern image GreatSouthern.jpg caption The largest GI wineregion of Australia official name other name type year wine years country Australia part of similar sub regions Porongurups, Mount Barker, Albany, Denmark and Frankland River season climate region heat units precipitation soil The main soils are similar to that of the Margaret River wineregion lateritic gravelly sandy loams marri country or sandy ... Southern WineRegion Climate title The Great Southern WineRegion Climate accessdate 2009 8 10 ref ... Great Southern WineRegion History title The Great Southern wineregion history accessdate 2009 ... The Porongurup wineregion was featured on the ABC Television programme Landline TV series ... Default.aspx?tabid 4530 The Great Southern wineregion Margaret River Visitor Centre http www.margaretriver.com ... en Towns and Regions Great Southern Pages default.aspx Great Southern region nowraplinks Wine Regions of Western Australia DEFAULTSORT Great Southern WineRegion Category Wine regions of Western ... Franc and verdelho . wineries 48 wine produced designation comments The Great Southern WineRegion in West Australian wine South Western Australia Western Australia s South West is Australia s largest wineregion a rectangle 200 kilometres from east to west and over 100 kilometers from north to south. It has five nominated subregions for wine, the Porongurup, Western Australia Porongurups ... s legislation as determined by the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation . The vineyards spread ... and climate dictated in part by the distance however the region is the coolest of Western Australia s viticultural areas with a similar maritime influenced Mediterranean wine maritime influenced Mediterranean climate to Margaret River wineregion Margaret River although with slightly less rainfall. This diverse region is known for Riesling , Chardonnay , Cabernet Sauvignon , Pinot Noir , Shiraz ... more details
Lake. The Okanagan Valley is a Canadian wineregion located in the British Columbia region of the Okanagan ... of vineyards planted in the Okanagan account for more than 90 of all wine produced in British Columbia and after the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario wine Ontario is Canada s second leading wine producer ... that features many different microclimates wine microclimates and vineyard soil types. ref name Oxford pg 133 J. Robinson ed The Oxford Companion to Wine Third Edition pg 133 Oxford University Press ... index.cfm?PgNm TCE&Params A1ARTA0008641 Wine Industry . Accessed January 5th, 2011 ref The history of wine production in the Okanagan dates back to the 1850s with the establishment of Pandosy Mission ... wine industry in the area was not revived until the 1930s. From this time, till the mid 1970s, the Okanagan wine industry was based entirely on the production of fruit wines and those produced from ... priest Charles Pandosy and was solely intended for the production of sacramental wine for the celebration ... pg 133 For most of the 20th century after prohibition, what limited wine production that took place ... 21722174 Canada Finds its Napa Wine Spectator. August 17th, 2004 ref File June 13, 2010 Oliver Mudslide ... planting German grape varieties and provided clones wine clones of Pinot Blanc , Pinot Gris and Gew rtztraminer ... markets to American wines from California wine California , Oregon wine Oregon and Washington wine Washington . The competition from imported wines spurred the Canadian government to implement a vine ... show id 42959 Mudslide Buries Okanagan Vineyards Wine Spectator. June 18th, 2010 ref Geography and climate ... the climate in the Okanagan region which receives very little rainfall throughout the year. The region ... 49th and 50th parallel north , putting it in the same latitude with the European wine regions of Champagne wine Champagne and Rheingau wine Rheingau . ref name Oxford pg 133 ref name CaEnc While not, officially, yet divided into appellation sub appellations , the British Columbia Wine Institute list ... more details
German wine regions Image Weinfranken.jpg thumb 300px Map of the Franconia region. In the centre of the map ..., Steigerwald is located. Franconia Franken is a region for quality German winewine in Germany ... 4218 cb63 6a55f440fd33,11111111 1111 1111 1111 111111111111.pdf German Wine Institute German wine statistics 2009 2010 ref Geography The greatest part of the wineregion is situated in the county of Lower ... . The bends of Main have been used to define the region s three districts, two of which take their names from their respective geometric shape. ref There is also a German wine district called Tauberfranken, but despite its name it does not belong to Franconia but rather to Baden wineregion Baden ... WineRegion Category Geography of Bavaria Category Wine regions of Germany de Franken Weinbaugebiet ... 1, 2008 ref situated in the north west of Bavaria in the district of Franconia , and is the only wineregion in the federal state of Bavaria. In 2008, vines were grown on convert 6063 ha of land in the region ... red wine foot path Image Maindreieck.jpg thumb 200px The Maindreieck in bird s eye view The Mainviereck ... for growing red wine. Franconian red wine plantings started to expand in the 1970s. ref name Weinbau ... wine trophies. The wine guide Gault Millau WeinGuide elected Paul F rst winery Rudolf F rst, B rgstadt as wine maker of the year in its German edition in 2003. The most important villages are B rgstadt, Gro heubach and Klingenberg am Main. The main red wine area of Franconia is connected through the Franconian red wine foot path since 1990. District Maindreieck The Maindreieck Main triangle .... But as in many wine regions in Germany a wide variety of grapes is cultivated. Riesling , Bacchus ... wine journalists are saying, that Franconia is the only place in the world, where the Silvaner can ... . Along the Maindreieck nearly in every town wine is made. The first evidence of the Silvaner is found ... mainly of gypsum . The wines of this region often have a very mineralic touch. The most important ... more details
south , the Central Otago WineRegion is the most southerly wine producing region in the world. Citation ... some accolades at wine tastings around the world. Sub Regions The Central Otago wineregion is broken ... element in the region s future success since &mdash given the small domestic wine market and the relatively .... Given its geographical restrictions, Central Otago will never become a vast wine growing region, but if it can ... wine continental microclimate wine microclimate characterised by hot, dry summers, cool autumns ..., Rosie. 21 June 2007 . Label Protection Sought. The Otago Daily Times , p.15 ref History of the wineregion Significant European ethnic groups European occupation in this region started with the Central ... started planting vine s and embarking upon small scale commercial wine production &mdash even winning medals in Australian wine competitions. Late in the nineteenth century, the New Zealand government hired a winemaker to survey the country see Romeo Bragato . He singled out Central Otago as a region of utmost potential. While this early experimentation showed the wine growing potential of the region, the wine industry did not survive for long on a commercial basis see New Zealand Wine . Once ... in the Central Otago region, according to http www.nzwine.com New Zealand Winegrowers , accounting ... in Central Otago on quality wines rather than bulk wine s, actual wine production accounted ... by high mountains up to 3,700 metres from New Zealand s characteristic maritime climate wine maritime climate . They thus enjoy the only true continental climate wine continental climate zone in the country ... between March and November. In the earlier days of experimental planting in the region, many skeptics warned that the conditions would preclude successful commercial wine growing in fact, these very climatic ... distinction and intensity. One of Central Otago s warmest wine growing areas can be found just north ... wine regions of the North Island can be illustrated by the difference in the timing of the grape harvest ... more details
Weinsberg close to Heilbronn. Most of the W rttemberg wineregion is situated around the river Neckar and several of its tributaries, Rems , Enz , Kocher und Jagst . The geography of the wineregion ... reflist coord missing Germany DEFAULTSORT Wurttemberg WineRegion Category W rttemberg Category Wine regions of Germany de W rttemberg Weinbaugebiet es W rttemberg regi n vin cola ...German wine regions Image Cannstatter Zuckerle 2.jpg thumb 250px The vineyard Cannstatter Zuckerle is one of W rttemberg s most well known. It is situated in Bad Cannstatt, part of Stuttgart, and its steep terraced vineyards overlook river Neckar. foreignchar Wuerttemberg W rttemberg is a region Anbaugebiet for quality German winewine in Germany , ref name wein.de http www.wein.de 1463.0.html Wein.de ... region of W rttemberg in southwestern Germany , which today forms part of the federal state of Baden W rttemberg . Under German wine legislation, W rttemberg and Baden wineregion Baden are separate wine regions. With convert 11511 ha under vine in 2008, W rttemberg is Germany s fourth largest wineregion. ref name Statistics 09 10 http www.deutscheweine.de icc Internet DE med 0be 0be2f08f a4a0 4218 cb63 6a55f440fd33,11111111 1111 1111 1111 111111111111.pdf German Wine Institute German wine statistics 2009 2010 ref Winemaking cooperatives are very common in W rttemberg, number around 70, and are responsible for almost 75 of the region s production. ref http www.wein plus.de glossar ... different varieties than other German wine regions. Geography Image Weinsberg Schemelsberg Burgberg ... , The Oxford Companion to Wine , Third Edition, p 776, Oxford University Press 2006, ISBN 0198609906 ... WeinGaertner3.JPG thumb 250px A bottle of Lemberger varietal wine from W rttemberg. 71 of the vines grown in W rttemberg are of red grape varieties. The most common variety in W rttemberg, and the region s signature grape, is the red wine grape Trollinger , which was planted on 21.2 of the vineyard ... more details
Image Vins colmar.jpg thumb Some Alsacian wines in their specific bottles. The wineregion of Alsace produces wine s under three different Appellation d Origine Contr l e Appellations d Origine Contr l es AOCs Alsace AOC for white, ros and red wines, Alsace Grand Cru AOC for white wines from certain classified wine classified vineyards and Cr mant d Alsace AOC for sparkling wines . This region is the only French wineregion allowed to label wine label Alsatian wine its wines based on varietal . Alsace AOC Unlike most other French wine regions, there is Alsace wine only one AOC for most wines made in the whole of Alsace. ref name A AOC http www.inao.gouv.fr public produits showTexte.php?comiteNat 1&id txt 909 INAO AOC Alsace regulations, updated until January 14, 2007 fr , retrieved 2011 04 19 ref In 2006, 78 per cent of the Alsatian vineyards were producing wine under the Alsace AOC appellation. ref name CIVA http www.vinsalsace.com en CIVA website en , retrieved 2011 04 22, with sublinks to UK, US and Canadian sites. ref Other French wine regions have numerous appellations within them, often designating wine from a particular town or, even, an area within a certain town. Alsace AOC wines are often sold with one of the Alsace Varietal labels and similar designations varietal labels or similar designations that are allowed under the AOC rules. In some cases, a lieu dit , the name ... Noir grapes. Cr mant d Alsace is a significant part of the wine production in Alsace, with 18 of the region ... of Alsace en , retrieved 2011 04 22. DEFAULTSORT Alsace WineRegion Category Alsace wine AOCs simple ... grape s. These wines can be produced as late harvest wine s and labeled either S lection ... wine production traditional method bottle fermentation , mostly from Pinot Blanc grapes ... of sparkling wine production in Alsace is said to go back to around the year 1900, when Julien Dopff ... http www.winemonthclub.com newsletters vol9no3.htm The International Wine of the Month Club Newsletter ... more details
German wine regions Image Dernau am Rotweinwanderweg.jpg thumb The village Dernau and Ahr vineyards. Ahr is a wineregion Anbaugebiet for quality German winewine in Germany ref name wein.de http www.wein.de ... wine Mosel region it primarily produces red wines, and red grape varieties account for 86 of the vineyard area, which is more than in any other German wineregion. ref name OCW Ahr History It is believed ... of the Ahr wineregion. At 61.3 or convert 342 ha in 2008, Ahr grows a higher proportion of the much appreciated Sp tburgunder Pinot Noir than any other German wineregion. ref name Statistics 09 10 ... 1111 111111111111.pdf German Wine Institute German wine statistics 2009 2010 ref , it is one of smaller ... region was established. Geography and climate Image Ahrtal01.jpg thumb The narrow Ahr river valley is responsible for the region s favoured mesoclimate. Situated between 50th parallel north 50 and 51st parallel north 51 north , Ahr is the world s most northern region dominated by red wine grapes. So far north, very good sites with a warm microclimate wine microclimate are needed to properly ripen red wine grapes, and the Ahr vineyards are said to have a Mediterranean wine Mediterranean microclimate ... to the Rhine. ref name OCW Ahr J. Robinson ed , The Oxford Companion to Wine , Third Edition, p 8, Oxford University Press 2006, ISBN 0 19 860990 6 ref The wine growing parts of the Ahr valley enjoy ... , 19 ha 3.4 M ller Thurgau , 15 ha 2.7 Domina grape Domina , 10 ha 1.8 Wine style While Ahr primarily grew red wine before the current red wine trend in Germany, until the 1980s the wines were ... this style of wine was perhaps rather unimpressive by international standards, Ahr could rely on its ..., Werner N kel of Weingut Meyer N kel started to experiment with extended Maceration wine maceration and a significant influence of Oak wine oak , which then was a style of red wine which hardly existed ... to Wine , Third Edition, p 659 660, Oxford University Press 2006, ISBN 0 19 860990 6 ref In comparison ... more details
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Image Kaiserstuhl Terrassen2.jpg thumb Terraced vineyards in Kaisterstuhl, a district of the Baden region. Image Weinanbau ortenau.jpg thumb Vineyards in Ortenau, another district of Baden. German wine regions Baden is a region Anbaugebiet for quality German winewine in Germany ref name wein.de http ... this wineregion has a long history of winemaking neither the colour nor quality of the earliest ... German regions, and it is the only German wineregion situated in European Union wine growing zone B rather than A. ref name OCW Baden J. Robinson ed , The Oxford Companion to Wine , Third Edition ... , which is more than any other German wineregion. ref http www.deutscheweine.de internet en nav ... Franconia wineregion Franconia . The wines are similar to the wines of Franconia, and are sold ... plantations of these three Pinot varieties than any other German wineregion. Correspondingly, Riesling ... Baden WineRegion Category Baden Category Wine regions of Germany de Baden Weinbaugebiet es Baden regi n ... in the historical region of Baden in southwestern Germany , which today forms part of the federal state of Baden W rttemberg . Under German wine legislation, Baden and W rttemberg wineregion W rttemberg are separate wine regions. With convert 15906 ha under vine in 2008, Baden is Germany s third largest wineregion ref name Statistics 09 10 http www.deutscheweine.de icc Internet DE med 0be 0be2f08f a4a0 4218 cb63 6a55f440fd33,11111111 1111 1111 1111 111111111111.pdf German Wine Institute German wine statistics 2009 2010 ref , but seems to be much less known on export markets in comparison to many smaller German regions, and in comparison to the neighbouring France French region of Alsace wine Alsace , which is of similar size. Winemaking cooperatives are very common in Baden, number around 100, and are responsible for 85 of the region s production. ref http www.wein plus.de ... of wine again when they planted Riesling for the first time in R sselsheim ref http www.graf von ... more details
wineregion archaism archaic lang en Champany is a historic province within the Champagne Champagne ... of the sparkling white wine that Champagne wine bears the region s name . EU law and the laws of most countries reserve the term Champagne exclusively for wines that come from this region located ... edges of the wine growing world, the history of the Champagne wineregion has had a significant role in the development of this unique terroir . The area s proximity to Paris promoted the region s economic success in its wine trade but also put the villages and vineyards in the path of marching armies on their way to the French capital. Despite the frequency of these military conflicts, the region developed a reputation for quality wine production in the early Middle Ages and was able to continue that reputation as the region s producers began making sparkling wine with the advent of the great Champagne houses in the 17th & 18th centuries. The principal grapes grown in the region include Chardonnay ... ref History of wine production The region s reputation for wine production dates back to the Middle ... region Burgundy . ref name Johnson pg 211 H. Johnson Vintage The Story of Wine pg 211 Simon and Schuster ... all owning vineyard land in the region. A batch of wine from A received in 1518 by Henry VIII s chancellor ... The region was in competition with Burgundy for the Flanders county Flemish wine trade and tried to capitalize ... A strong influence on Champagne wine production was the centuries old rivalry between the region and Burgundy ... to 5,000 growers who make their own wine and 14,000 growers who only sell grapes. The region is set ... WineRegion Category Wine regions of France Category Champagne wine Category Former provinces of France ...File Vignobles champagne.png thumb right Viticultural zones in the Champagne region File Verzenay moulin.jpg ... of Champagne are legally defined and split into five wine producing districts within the administrative ... region and grows very well in Montagne de Reims. Pinot Meunier is the dominant grape in the Vall e de ... more details
made, increasingly in a powerful dry style. The wineregion is member of the Great Wine Capitals Global ... list of Rheinhessen vineyards coord 49.9 N 8 E region DE display title Category Wine ... Hesse is the largest of 13 German wine Regions German wine regions Anbaugebiete for German wine classification Quality categories quality wines QbA and Pr dikatswein with convert 26444 ha under ... 0be2f08f a4a0 4218 cb63 6a55f440fd33,11111111 1111 1111 1111 111111111111.pdf German Wine Institute German wine statistics 2009 2010 ref ref http www.wein.de 1459.0.html Wein.de German Agricultural Society Rhine Hesse , read on January 2, 2008 ref Named for the traditional region of Rhenish Hesse , it lies ... been several unsuccessful attempts to legally reunite the former wine growing districts of Mainz on the hessian side during the post war area. Rheinhessen produces mostly white wine from a variety ... forms the eastern and northern boundary of the region, with the Nahe River to the west and the Haardt Mountains to the south. The Palatinate wineregion Palatinate wineregion lies to the south, the Rheingau wineregion Rheingau lies across the Rhine to the north, and the Nahe wineregion Nahe wineregion to the west. Known as the land of the thousand hills , the terrain is undulating with vineyards ... area is around Ingelheim , in the north of the region opposite the Rheingau. History Image Rheinhessen vineyards.jpg thumb 300px Vineyards near Stadecken Elsheim Grapes have been grown in the region ... Elsheim the Counts of Katzenelnbogen first cultivated Riesling in 1435 they called the wine from this part of their county the Wine from the Gau ref Rheinhessen, The History of the County of Katzenelnbogen ... territories. As a result, he amended his title to Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and the name of the region ... was used as a name for a semi sweet wine style produced in several German regions, and became responsible ... connection to the region since Georg Scheu bred it at the Alzey Research Institute in the region. The most ... more details
Infobox WineRegion name Ticino image official name Ticino other name Svizzera Italiana type DOC Appellation d Origine Contr l e AOC year in the Roman era wine years VITI since 1948 DOC since 1997 part of Swiss wine s sub regions season climate region heat units precipitation 1500 2200 mm soil total ... 264 wine produced designation DOC, VITI comments All data as of 2005 The wineregion of Ticino started producing wine in the Roman era , but only after 1906, with the introduction of Merlot , did it begin to produce quality wine. Geographically the wineregion is located in the south of Switzerland ... s, alluvium , etc. The region is very wet, but with few rainy days and many sunny days, so normally the vineyards are grassy, which limits erosion . See also History of Wine Italian wine Valtellina . Wine from Brusio in Valposchiavo are generally considered in that Italian wineregion. References ... in the southern part. The top quality wines of the region have the appellation del Ticino DOC or ticinese ... substantial cultivation of grapes, and production of wine probably started in this period, as shown ... . The wine was produced in some local List of grape varieties varieties , of which only ... government decided to give a new direction to the wine industry they instituted the cattedra itinerante ... with bottling of Italian wine s, but then switched the focus to production of local wines. In the Sopraceneri region of northern Ticino, the local variety Bondola still survives in some vineyards and is used to produce some wine. Late 20th and 21st centuries In the late 20th century, the wineries looked for quality wines, and because of new world wines, the demand of Merlot wine increased. Thus a golden ... for the local wine. Appellation and classification In Ticino the grapes and wines are classified ... geographic denominations. The wine can be made with merlot , Bondola , Pinot Noir , Cabernet Franc ... 02 prodotti vino default.asp?id 11 Official cantonal site about agriculture and wine rules for DOC ... more details
The Heathcote WineRegion of Victoria Australia Victoria , Australia , is nestled between the Goulburn Valley and Bendigo, Victoria Bendigo regions. The region is famous as for its shiraz grape Shiraz production. Geography North of the Great Dividing Range the region is at elevations between convert 160 and 380 m ft . The climate and soils are strongly influenced by the Mt Camel range that extends from Corop, Victoria Corop to Tooborac, Victoria Tooborac . ref name AWBC cite web url http www.wineaustralia.com australia Default.aspx?tabid 747 title Heathcote, Victoria work Wine Regions publisher Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation accessdate 2007 03 28 ref For the most part, the soil under vine is Cambrian red and deep with excellent water holding capacity. As a consequence some vignerons do not irrigation irrigate and aim for smaller fruit intensely rich in flavour. Citation needed date March 2007 The region s rainfall is evenly distributed between the seasons and the temperature range is defined as temperate, with cooling winds emanating from the south resulting in summer temperatures two to three degrees cooler than nearby Bendigo. ref name AWBC ref name WineproClimate cite web last Halliday first James url http www.winepros.com.au jsp cda countries region topic.jsp?ID 1752 title Regional Spotlight Heathcote Region Summary work Winepros publisher ewineexchange limited accessdate ... Osicka Wines one of the longer established wine producers in the Heathcote wineregion. However, other wines have emerged to confirm that the region as a major producer of high end Shiraz. Citation ... 2007 coord 36 54 58 S 144 41 46.5 E type landmark region AU display title Category Wine regions of Victoria ... notable wines of the Heathcote region include Wild Duck Creek Estate the home of Duck Muck. ref name WineproWine cite web last Halliday first James url http www.winepros.com.au jsp cda countries region ... varieties. Although Heathcote is regarded on par with other notable red wine regions in Australia ... more details
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