1953 The U K B G Guide to Drinks

WINES OF GERMANY

among others, of which there are some hundreds, are the best known Moselles, while of the Saar wines there are:— Scharzherg Wiltingen Scharzhofberg Ayl

and of the Rawer wines there are:— Casel

Gruenhaus Eitelsbach

Descriptions The description of the label often appears to be difficult to understand for the layman, hence it is as well to have a slight knowledge of the terms which one might find upon the labels of the bottles. First it was traditional to bottle the wines of the Rhine in a reddish or reddish-brown coloured bottle, while those of the Moselle were bottled in the greenish or bottle-green coloured types, -long, slender tapering bottles. The wines are chieflj'^ known under the name of the village from which they bear their origin. To this village name is added the letters "ER thus a wine from Berncastel becomes Berncasteler, and a Nierstein becomes a Neirsteiner, and a Forst becomes Forster. Further, they may bear the date of a vintage, while better class wines will be known under the name of an estate ; thus we have Berncasteler Doktor, Doktor being the name of an estate or vineyard. The more select wines have further descriptions, thus we have:— Spatlese (pronounced Spa3dleser), meaning "late gathering of the grapes." Auslese, meaning"a gathering of specialty selected bunches of grapes". Beeren-Auslese, meaning "a gathering of specially picked berries". Trockenbeeren-Auslese, meaning "a gathering of specialty selected grapes which have been allowed to remain on the vine until they aie almost dried up and like raisins ". 195