In various restaurants along the Moselle (area of Traben-Trarbach), I noticed that wine lists are divided into chapters called "trocken", "halbtrocken", "lieblich", "edelsüsse Spezialitäten". All these categories are fairly clear to me, but occasionally one encounters "feinherb" as well.
Am I right in assuming that this is somewere between trocken and halbtrocken (kind of "vierteltrocken" or "dreivierteltrocken") or is it more complicated than that?
Thanks for your assistance
Yves
Hi That's a difficult one, actually, because there's no legal definition of the term, even when it's an allowed one. The glossary of the well informed German website wein-plus.de puts it between dry and semi-dry as Yves says, contrary to what I have seen and experienced myself in the Moselle... So even German experts seem to be confused. The "correct" answer is: Between semi-dry and moderately sweet (halbtrocken and lieblich). The residual sugar will then be 18-25 gr/l which fits well with various wine lists I've seen. The reason might be that sweet covers a large span from mild to cloying. A 'normal' Auslese would be anything between 18 to 60 gr/l and therefore there has been a need to tell whether a wine is not quite sweet.
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