What does the following indication means with german wines:

Goldkapsel or lange Goldkapsel?

And sometime we got "Rielsling spätlese Fuder - 15 -"

Are they special wines with better quality?

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> What does the following indication means with german wines:
>
> Goldkapsel or lange Goldkapsel?
>
> And sometime we got "Rielsling spätlese Fuder - 15 -"
>
> Are they special wines with better quality?
>
>
The immediate answer is: Marketing.
But there is reality behind it - any producer may mark his best batches in
some way. Some will use a star system **, ***, and even **** stars may be
seen. Others will use a golden capsule for their premium wines or a long
golden one for extra premium wines. Your quote simply says "Riesling late
harvest, barrel no 15" which would be supposed to be better than the other
barrels in some way..
Yes, for a given producer they are better (read: expensiver) wines, but the
neighbour next door may have even better wines without marking them so... as
there is no regulation for this sort of marketing gimmick. Besides, your
taste may be different. I've at times found a ** wine 'better' than a
monster **** one.
:-) Anders

> skrev i melding
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> What does the following indication means with german wines:
>
> Goldkapsel or lange Goldkapsel?
>
> And sometime we got "Rielsling spätlese Fuder - 15 -"
>
> Are they special wines with better quality?
>
>
The immediate answer is: Marketing.
But there is reality behind it - any producer may mark his best batches in
some way. Some will use a star system **, ***, and even **** stars may be
seen. Others will use a golden capsule for their premium wines or a long
golden one for extra premium wines. Your quote simply says "Riesling late
harvest, barrel no 15" which would be supposed to be better than the other
barrels in some way..
Yes, for a given producer they are better (read: expensiver) wines, but the
neighbour next door may have even better wines without marking them so... as
there is no regulation for this sort of marketing gimmick. Besides, your
taste may be different. I've at times found a ** wine 'better' than a
monster **** one.
:-) Anders

Many make several batches of, say, an auslese wine. Before 1971, they
could put the German equivalent of "fine" or "best" on the label along
with auslese, but the 1971 German wine laws put an end to this. Thus
some better growers use various capsule size and color codes, etc, to
indicate which are the better and best batches. For example you
sometimes, find a regular capsule, a gold capsule, and a long gold
capsule for a J. J. Pr=FCm auslese. The long gold capsule wine usually
is far better than the regular capsule and somewhat better than the gold
capsule. A long gold capsule wine will cost much more than the plain
capsule wine. Some estates use different label designs to indicate the
better wines. For instance, Schloss Johannisberg had a regular label and
another with a picture of the Schloss for the better grade. Several
other schemes have been used to get around the ban against nonofficial
quality descriptions on the label. The reason for the 1971 ban was that
some makers of cheap wine were making such things as "best"
Liebfraumilch which was only a mass produced cheap blend.

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