On Apr 19, 3:08*am, cwdjrxyz > wrote:
> 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.

Apparently Bruderberg is only being used for QbA these days.
They used to make an Abtsberg QbA, but haven't seen in a while.
Not sure if this is all Bruderberg, or a blend.