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Abbreviation for "Deutsche Landwirtschaftsgesellschaft" (German Agricultural Society)
It would be a great misunderstanding to regard the word "Dorscht" as a simple translation of the high German word "thirst". While thirst is the profane desire for water and other refreshing drinks caused by lack of water in the body, "Dorscht" is the longing for a strengthening or deliciously tasting glass of Rheinhessen wine.
Expression for the grape must used for sweetening a wine. It also means the grape must/ sugar dissolved in wine, that is mixed with yeast and added to the base wine in the production of sparkling wine. Here, a distinction is made between the filling dosage for the initiation of the second fermentation and the shipping dosage which is added to the fermented sparkling wine in order to round it off and to compensate for the loss of sweetness caused by the second fermentation. The shipping dosage characterizes the flavour type of…
Ecovin was founded in 1985 and is a federal association of organic wineries in Germany. (Based in Oppenheim) Ecovin owns regional associations in 11 German wine growing areas, whose 250 member farms manage 1,900 hectares of vineyards. (As of 2014) Link to Ecovin
Within the vineyards there are sites. A site refers to a geographical area, such as a vineyard, whose name and boundary are recorded and protected by law. A single vineyard site consists of several cadastral sites.
High quality dessert wine. The grapes must be frozen during harvesting and pressing (at least -7 ° Celsius). The water released from the berry cells freezes, the berry juice is concentrated, thereby increasing the must weight (an ice wine from Rheinhessen must have at least 120 ° Oechsle ). High-risk extraction (lower yield, risk of loss, with premature thawing unwanted "Frost taste"), therefore high-priced rarity.
The deleafing of the grapes is a measure n the vineyard, that is taken in order to improve the quality of te grapes. The grapes are better ventilated after removing some of the leaves and dry faster after rainfall. As a result, the grapes are less prone to diseases such as botrytis. On the other hand, in hot summers, the lack of sun protection increases the risk of sunburn for the grapes. Some experts recommend deleafing only on the side facing away from the sun. The deleafing can be done by hand or by machine. In fact, even…
Separation of the berries from the stems. This is to prevent the tannin contained in the stems from entering the wine, as with too much tannin, the wine would taste bitter.
The acid content of the must of certain grape varieties can be rather high in vintages with unfavorable weather conditions (late grape ripeness).When that happens, the wines produced from it would be inharmonious without reducing the acidity. The deacidification is done either with lime carbonate or by degradation of malic acid by biological means .
Yield regulation includes all measures, that are taken, in order to influence the yield. This inclues measures like deleafing, dividing the grapes, or a green harvest (cutting off less mature bunches of grapes before the harvest)