On Apr 17, 3:25*pm, DaleW > wrote:
> Thursday Betsy made *cha-soba noodles with peppers, bok choy *and
> shrimp (she had made another version with regular soba and chicken for
> friends who can't cook now), wine was originally the 2007 Maximin
> Grunhauser (von Schubert) Riesling QbA (Mosel Saar Ruwer). This is the
> truly generic, no vineyard designation. Lots of petrol, some lemon and
> apple. Soft, more pleasant than interesting. B-

There are a very few German vineyards so famous that they do not have
to give a Weinbauort(village) name. One of the best know is Schloss
Johannisberg. In the Weinbauort Mertesdorf there are a few vineyards.
One is Mertesdorfer Felslay. However there is a very famous set of
vineyards known as Ortsteil Maximin Grunhaus, containing the
Einzellags(vineyards) Abtsberg, Bruderberg, and Herrenberg. Being an
Ortsteil, Mertesdorf is not mentioned in the wine name and one thus
has Maximum Grunhauser followed by one of the 3 mentioned vineyard
names or alone if it is a mixture from 2 or 3 of the vineyards. If one
must choose, perhaps Abtsberg is the best but the other two are not
far behind or sometimes equal. Oddly enough you are most likely to
find a mixture of grapes from more than one vineyard at the extremes
with Qba at one end and BA and TBA at the other. Sometimes there is
not enough BA or TBA to make it practical to make separate wines for
each vineyard. In other cases the mixed wine may be made from what is
left after some of the BA or TBA is selected for individual vineyard
wines.