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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 ".
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