FOOD AND BEVERAGE: WINES OF GERMANY


                                                   WINES OF GERMANY
Wines of Germany
     The history of German wines goes back to the ancient Romans who conquered the region Germany’s wine region are concentrated in the south-western part of the country, which straddles the 50o N latitude. Germany’s location being so far north is relatively cool and the low in autumn. That is why the German wines harvest takes place in October and November, long after the harvest has completed elsewhere.
     Most of her vineyards are located on step south-facing slopes to allow maximum exposure to the sun and each vine growing site is chosen to provide  the best micro climate possible. For instance these vineyards are usually located along the step banks of the river Rhine. The water on these rivers help reflect sunlight and provide greater exposure to the sun for the vineyards.
Since the generally reduced exposure to the sun affects most of her vineyards , the ripeness and therefore the suger levels of the grapes then because of great concern to the Germans.
Over time, time the Germans have put into practice the harvest team of grapes at various stages of ripeness. This practice is the basic of the German wine quality rating system where the degree of the ripeness at harvest is indicated on the label by the quality category .
In this system, the longer the grapes stay on the vine and the riper they become the higher the category the eventual wine. This also means the wines develop more pronounced aromas, flavour and an increased natural sweetness. That is why the general impression about Germans always being sweet comes about. At the same time, the long, slow ripening period enables the grapes to mentain there fruits acidity, which makes them freshing and lively.

                                    GERMAN WINE LAWS
On to the German wine rating system there  two basic labels of wine covering four categories. The 2 labels are Tafelwein (which include landwein )and Oualittatswein (covering both Qualittatswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete and Qualittatswein mit pradikat).
 The four categories of German wines are therefore:
Deutcher Tafelwein
Deutseher Landwein
Qualitatswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete(QbA)
Qualitatswein mit Pradikat(QmP)


Deutcher Tafelwein
  This is the simple, pleasant table wine for the every day enjoyment. Deucher Tafelwein are the wines made softly from grapes which is grown in Germany. These wines are made from  different four broad Tafelwein region in Germny Rhein-Mosel, Bayern, Neckar and the Oberrhein.
   If the wine is labelled softly as tafelwein and the word ‘Deutscher’ is missing from the label, then the wine is not made softly from German grapes but blended with from grape juice or wines imported from countries outside Germany  within the European Union.

Deutscher Landwein
These wines are different category of table wine because it is dry or semi dry and character than tefelwein. It is produce in one of the 17 designated landwein regions. Like Tefelwein very little of this category is encounted outside of the region of the production.

 Qualitatiswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete (Qba)¬¬¬
Qba wines are only produced form 11different specified wine growing  region such as Ahr, Mittelrhein, Mosel-saar –Ruwer, Rheingau, franken, Rheinhessen, Nahhe, Hessische, Bergstrasse, Rheinpflaz, Wurttenberg and Badan . each of these wine reagions is reffered to as a gebeit.
These kind of different category of wines carry the largest volume of German Wines. These wines are made from approved grape varieties which must be ripened sufficiently to ensure that the wines typically represent the style and taste characteristics of each region.  If a vineyard is indicated on the label of these wines, then at least 75% of the wines in the bottle must be made from that site.
 Qualitatswein mit Pradikat(QmP)
This is a quality wine category that makes the distinction of classifying  wines by their special attributes (Pradikat in German). This category includes the finest wines of Germany and indicates one of six special attributes on their label.
These all attributes are listed according to the ripeness ( and sugar level ) of the grapes at harvest. This degree of ripeness and sugar level varies with the grapes variety used and the geographical origin.
The minimum alcoholic strength  stated for six  different categories of QmP wines are potential alcoholic strength based on the sugar levels and ripeness used without any chaptatisation. Following are the six different QmP classification or pradikats:
Kabinett
Spatless
Auslese
Beerenauslese
Trockenbeerenauslese
Eiswein

Classification of beverages: Non Alcoholic Beverages



There are different types of  Non- Alcoholic Beverages.
1) Bottled Water:
    According to FDA (Food and Drug Administration) bottled water is a water that is intended for human consumption, which is sealed in bottles or any other container without any ingredients. This water is consider as a suitable antimicrobial and safe drinking water.

2) Milk :
    Milk is also consider as non- alcoholic beverage because it contains no any alcoholic. Milk is consider as primary source of nutrition. which produce energy and reduce many disease. Milk is white liquid which are produced by mammals.


  3)  Tea:
       Tea is consider as a second most consumed drinks in the world. Tea is made from dry leaves of tea plant camellia. Tea is prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over a tea leaves.

4) Coffee:
     coffee is available in many varieties such as caffeinated, decaffeinated , brewed, roasted, instant , flavoured. This is prepared from the baked or roasted  seeds of several species of an evergreen shrub of the genuscoffea.


5) Soft Drinks :
      Soft drinks are consider as a non- alcoholic carbonated beverages which is made of mixing dry ingredients or fresh ingredient without no any alcohol. (for example lemons,oranges etc ) with water.


6) Juice Drinks:
     Juice is a liquid which naturally combination of fruits and vegetables, This is prepared by squeezing or macerating fruit of vegetables flesh without the application of heat or solvent. (example orange juice , tomato juice )


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