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Über Wein: Rebsorten, Regionen, Etiketten und die Menschen, die ihn machen. Die Artikel erscheinen auf Englisch. · aktualisiert 28. Oktober 2026

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Portuguese wine: from Vinho Verde to the Dão

More than 250 native grapes, fourteen regions and two estates on their way to us: Alvarinho from Monção e Melgaço, and Encruzado and reds from the Dão.

28. Oktober 2026 · 5 Min. Lesezeit

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  1. Is Kabinett a sweet wine?

    No. Kabinett tells you how ripe the grapes were, not how sweet the wine is. Sweetness has its own word on the label.

  2. What is Grosses Gewächs (GG)?

    GG is dry wine from a classified top vineyard, with low yields and hand harvesting. How to read the two letters.

  3. What do trocken, halbtrocken and brut mean?

    Sweetness levels are regulated to the gram, but not the same way for still and sparkling wine. A trocken sekt is sweeter than a brut.

  4. What is sekt? German sparkling wine, explained

    Sekt is the German word for sparkling wine. Tank versus bottle fermentation, and what brut and trocken mean on a sekt label.

  5. How to read a German wine label

    Trocken, Kabinett, Spätlese, GG: four words that tell you what is in the bottle.

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