German Wine

Fpaplefe? Seems you have misread... It is Spatlese (late harvest) Deidesheim is a village in Pfalz, Germany (a Rhine wine area). Hofstuck is a generic name for something like 19 vineyards in Deidesheim and surrounding villages. The best wines are normally single vineyard ones... Furthermore a vineyard in Germany is often a quite large area, with a large number of owners, each with a piece of the land, and also with different capabilities and abilities. So, the important thing is always: Who is making the wine? What grape varieties have been used? I'd advise you to look for anything from Deidesheim, with Riesling (the grape) and Spatlese (the ripeness) on the label. hth Anders

The German marketing guys really should do something about that Gothic script :-)

Why always bash the Germans?

M.

I'm not sure I understand the "....bash the Germans?" comment but this picture of the label doesn't appear to be in Gothic print. Must have been a typo.

Well, that's a Spätlese from the Deidesheimer Hofstück, but quite apparently from another producer than the original poster mentioned.

Deidesheimer Hofstück ist *not* an individual vineyard site, but a "Großlage" incorporating all the 500 hectares from Deidesheim and possibly quite a few more from around.

M.