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| I Love German Wine and Food - A Rheinhessen Liebfraumilch |
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| 作者：佚名 文章来源：不详 更新时间：2008-2-12 20:19:15 | 【字体：小 大】 |
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If you are looking for fine German wine and food, consider the Rheinhessen region of southwestern Germany. You may find a bargain, and I hope that you'll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a local white Liebfraumilch.
Rheinhessen is a relatively small area, sometimes called the land of the thousand hills, nestled between the Rhine and the Nahe Rivers. When Charlemagne was ruling the roost Rheinhessen wines were already well known. Of all thirteen German wine regions Rheinhessen has the largest area planted in wine grapes and the highest wine production. In fact it is responsible for more than one quarter of the German wine acreage and wine production. Rheinhessen also produces the highest percentage of generally low quality table wine, almost 12%. Over 60% of Rheinhessen wine is middle quality QbA wine, and slightly more than 25% is higher quality QmP wine. While about 87% of its wine is white, the percentage of red wine is increasing. The most widely grown varieties are the German hybrid Mueller-Thurgau and Silvaner. The usually higher quality Riesling represents only about 10% of the total production. Dornfelder is the most widely planted red grape variety.
Worms is one of the oldest cities in Germany. The original settlement most likely dates back about six thousand years. The Celts founded the city so long ago that Worms, along with Cologne and Trier, claims to be the oldest city in Germany. It was an important site for the classic poem The Nibelungenlied (The Songs of the Nibelungs) which Richard Wagner transformed into a classic opera.
Opera lovers and history buffs will want to see the Nibelungen Museum, fittingly enough located in two medieval towers with an excellent view of the old city. Make sure to see the partially Gothic Wormser Dom St. Peter (Cathedral of St. Peter). This building was severely damaged by fire during a war near the end of the S[1] [2] [3] 下一页
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