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wines are of low alcoholic strength, but delightful light
dinner wines. Not particularly of long keeping quality,
and best drunk when young.
Enkirch
Berncastel
Zeltingen
Brauneberg
Wehlen
Piesport
Graach
Dhron
Traben-Trarbach
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 wiU be known under the name of an
estate ; thus we have Berncasteler Doktor, Doktor being
the name of an estate or vineyard.
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