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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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Is Mosel Riesling dry or sweet?
Mosel Riesling runs from bone dry to dessert sweet, and the label tells you which. The range explained, with the slate and the wines we import.
15. August 2026 · 2 Min. Lesezeit
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What does feinherb mean on a German wine label?
Feinherb means off-dry, roughly: the producer’s own word for wine around halbtrocken, not a legal sweetness level. What it means in the glass.
15. August 2026 · 2 Min. Lesezeit
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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- 28. Oktober 2026 Portuguese wine: from Vinho Verde to the Dão 5 min
- 28. Oktober 2026 Is Kabinett a sweet wine? 2 min
- 28. Oktober 2026 What is Grosses Gewächs (GG)? 2 min
- 28. Oktober 2026 What do trocken, halbtrocken and brut mean? 2 min
- 15. August 2026 What is sekt? German sparkling wine, explained 2 min
- 15. August 2026 Is Mosel Riesling dry or sweet? 2 min
- 15. August 2026 How to read a German wine label 2 min
- 15. August 2026 What does feinherb mean on a German wine label? 2 min