1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book

Ho CKS (Rhine Tv9nesJ Steinweins Moselles

HOCKS. Germany cannot be said to be a prolific producer of wine, at least of wine made from the actual grapes of the Fatherland, although quite an appreci able quantity is fermented from imported grapes. Of these latter, however, we need not deal here, except only to warn the neophyte that such wines can never be considered as being up to anything like fine quality, and are therefore to be avoided. Really fine German wine is never very plentiful, but this fact may be regarded as offset to some degree by the exceedingly fine quality of what is produced—the luscious and fruity Hocks, Steinweins, and Moselles. The term Hock is a somewhat general one, and is usually understood to mean a wine of quality originating in the districts of the Rhineland. For purposes of classification the. Rhineland is split into three main districts, Rheingau, Rheinhessen, and Rheinpfalz, and each of these districts gives us a wine of individual character. The most famous of these is the Rheingau, which occupies some twenty kilometres of the right bank of the Rhine, from Niederwald to Lorch.

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