It's Oktoberfest so a little talk about German wine is appropriate. For those with German wine in their cellars, would you mind sharing some info and provide some stats for the board?

How many bottles of German wine are in your cellar? I have 194.

Break it down by region (you don't have to be exact). Here is mine:

Mosel Saar Ruwer- 51%
Rheingau- 18%
Rheinhessen- 15%
Pfalz- 10.5%
Nahe- 3.5%
Mittelrhein- 1.5%
Franken- 1.5%

VM

Sure, I'll play!

I have 4 bottles:
Mosel-Saar-Ruwer 50%
Rheinhessen 25%
Mittelrhein 25%

...and they're all from the 2001 vintage.

194 bottles of German wine??

I'm doing a little better than Skynyrd. I have 12. 50% MSR, 33% Pfalz and 17% Rheingau

Sorry, zero. I'll leave it to other people to forgive and forget. I don't buy German.

Sad realization: I don't have enough German wine.

52 bottles, which is 8.1% of my total cellar:
6.7% Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
0.8% Pfalz
0.6% Rheinhessen

Only 25 currently in the cellar:

Mosel Saar Ruwer- 88%
Nahe- 8%
Rheingau- 4%

Have only been into German wines since the 2003 vintage, would probably have a lot more if I was buying when the 2001s came out.

just one.

Nothing to do with politics I just do not own any.

Mosel-Saar-Ruwer: 74 bottles = 79%
Nahe: 20 bottles = 21%

Germany (88 bottles & 29 pending, 11.60%)

Mosel Saar Ruwer (49 bottles & 27 pending, 7.53%)

Rheingau (30 bottles & 2 pending, 3.17%)

Pfalz (3 bottles, 0.30%)

Mittelrhein (3 bottles, 0.30%)

Rheinhessen (2 bottles, 0.20%)

Nahe (1 bottle, 0.10%)

Damn VM, nice German stack

Germany: 163 bottles

mosel-saar-ruwer : 58%
rheingau.........: 7%
pfalz............: 6%
nahe.............: 29%


btw.
all nahe dönnhoff and keller, all pfalz are m-c,
all rheingau are weil

What the heck are you guys going to do with over 100 bottles of German wine????

If you include what is due from Premier Cru, 3.7% of my cellar is German. All Mosel-Saar-Ruwer.

Seven bottles:
2003 Studert-Prum Riesling Kabinett
2003 Kurt Hain Riesling Kabinett
2003 Christoffel Auslese** Treppchen
2003 Christoffel Auslese** Treppchen
2003 Christoffel Auslese*** Würzgarten
2003 Christoffel Auslese*** Würzgarten

I did recently finish a couple of Bingen-Rheinhessens.

Granted, I don't know crap about nice German wines. I'm busy learning Italian whites and then French whites.

Someday maybe I'll figure out what I'd do with 100+ german bottles.

100 percent of my German rieslings are from Mosel Saar Ruwer...all three bottles. I do have a few Austrian rieslings also.

VM has more rieslings than I have bottles of white and sparkling wine.

A whopping 10 for me. 50 / 50 Rheinhessen and M-S-R.

6 bottles - all from Mosel Saar Ruwer (actually all are from J.J. Prum).

I don't like to admit this but---- only 9 bottles of Robert Weil, a couple of miscl Eisweins, and if I can count my bottles of Kracher from Austria----then I have a total of 14 bottles; which is less than 1 % of my cellar, but 180 bottles short of VM!

I knew Tsunami and Aries had nice collections of German wines because they post about them. I also knew AllRed had quite a few bottles because we have talked about German wine at offlines. I was surprised to see Scott McDonald with close to 100 bottles though. I had no idea. He has been holding out on me.

VM

zip

About two cases, most of which is MSR....

9 bottles - mostly from MSR - not enough

We have 20 current bottles with 15 pending, almost all from MSR.

I am down to 5 bottle of MSR (4 are Prum) and 2 bottles from Nahe by Donnhoff. This has been do to cellar diminishment activities. Not nearly what I want, but this will change... not like VM, but it will change.

David

39 M-S-R
9 Nahe
12 Rheingau
6 Rheinhessen
4 Pfalz
1 Mittelrhein

Notables:
2001 JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spatlese
2001 JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese
2001 JJ Prum Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Auslese
2002 JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spatlese
2002 JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Ausles
2002 JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Spatlese
2002 JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Auslese
2003 JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese
2003 JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Auslese
2002 Christoffel Erdener Treppchen Auslese**
2002 Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Kabinett and Spatlese
2002 Donnhoff Norheimer Kirschheck Spatlese
2002 Donnhoff Oberhauser Brucke Spatlese
2002 Donnhoff Schlossbockelheimer Kupfergrube Spatlese
2003 Donnhoff Norheimer Dellchen Spatlese
2003 Donnhoff Norheimer Kirschheck Spatlese
2002 Johannishof Rudesheimer Berg Rottland
Spatlese
2002 Leitz Rudesheimer Berg Roseneck Spatlese
2002 Schloss Schonborn Erbacher Marcobrunn Spat
2002 Robert Weil Kiedricher Grafenberg Spatlese
2001 Gunderloch Nackenheim Rothenberg Auslese
2003 Gunderloch Nackenheim Rothenberg Spatlese
2003 Muller-Catoir Haardter Herrenletten Spat
2001 Wegeler Rudesheimer Berg Rottland Spatlese

quote:

Originally posted by Vino Me:
I was surprised to see Scott McDonald with close to 100 bottles though. I had no idea. He has been holding out on me.

VM

Vino Me,

German Riesling is my favorite white wine. I'd be happy to bring a German Riesling to an offline. Perhaps, we need to have a German offline in honor of Oktoberfest!

Good idea Scott, let's make this offline in SoCal