On Apr 19, 11:44*am, DaleW > wrote:
> On Apr 19, 3:08*am, cwdjrxyz > wrote:
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> > On Apr 17, 3:25*pm, DaleW > wrote:
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> > > 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-
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> > 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.
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> 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.

I do not recall seeing any Bruderberg for sale in the US even in the
1970s. I still have a bit of the 1976 Abtsberg BA and the spatlese. I
have one bottle of Herrenberg spatlese 1971 and several bottles
Herrenberg Auslese 1975.