1960 The U K B G Guide to Drinks (3 rd edition revised)

U. K. B. G. GUIDE TO DRINKS 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 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. and of the Ruwer wines there are:— Casel Gruenhaus Eitelsbach

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