1955 The U K B G Guide to Drinks (2nd edition revised)

WINES OF GERjMANY

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

and of the Ruwer 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 chiefly 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 vinej'ard. The more select wines have further descriptions, thus we have:— Spatlese (pronounced Spaytleser), meaning "late gathering of the grapes." Auslese, meaning"a gathering of specially selected bunches of grapes ". Beeren-Auslese, meaning "a gathering of specially picked bendes". Troekenbeeren-Auslese, meaning "a gathering of specially selected grapes which have been allowed to remain on the vine until they are almost dried up and like raisins

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