With Oktoberfest around the corner it is time for an update. Last time I posted was 4 years ago. Here is how the German section of my cellar has changed in the last 4 years:

How many bottles of German wine are in your cellar? I have 247 (up from 194). About 24% of my wines.

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

Mosel Saar Ruwer- 50%
Rheingau- 19%
Rheinhessen- 11% (down 4%)
Pfalz- 11%
Nahe- 6% (up 3%)
Mittelrhein- 2%
Franken & Ahr- 1%

Vast majority is white. 6% of my Germans are dessert wines.

VM

I have about 60 bottles, almost all of which are MSR.

None at this point. The few Germans I have purchased were for immediate consumption. I appreciate the wines brought to local off-lines, though.

Mosel Saar Ruwer - 13.71% (27 bottles)
Rheinhessen - 4.06% (8 bottles)
Rheingau - 3.55% (7 bottles)
Pfalz - 2.54% (5 bottles)
Nahe - 0.51% (1 bottle)

Nahe 1%
Pfalz 3%
MSR 4.4%

Total 21 bottles

Germany accounts for 14.8% of my cellar. Of that:

MSR - 89%
Rheingau - 6%
Nahe - 3%
Rheinhessen - 2%

Kabinett - 9%
Spätlese - 12%
Auslese - 59%
Goldkapsel Auslese - 17%
Eiswein - 3%

98 bottles fo German, 30% of my cellar (90% of white)

MSR 82%
Rhg 13%
Rhh 3%
Nahe 2%

~18% dessert

Four years later, still about two cases, still all MSR.

28 bottles of German riesling in my cellar

1 Rheingau
3 Nahe
24 MSR

169 Bottles, split out by region as follows:

Mosel Saar Ruwer (129 bottles)
Nahe (26 bottles)
Rheingau (10 bottles)
Rheinhessen (3 bottles)
Pfalz (1 bottle)

16 bottles. 2 reingau, 4 nahe, 10 msr. Most of my riesling comes from alsace.

For the first time that I can remember, I have more than 50 bottles of whites (including two sparklers and some of the bottles are 375ml and 500ml) in my cellar. I'd guess that includes about 35 German Riesling (and a bottle or two of Rieslaner) with the rest being Austrian Riesling and whites from Burgundy. I have no idea of the breakdown for the German wines. Alas, my count for whites will again fall under 50 after Friday as I'm getting together with my work wine group and opening 3 bottles of Riesling, a half bottle of Rieslaner and a Champagne.

CT is showing 9.15%
Mosel Saar Ruwer 6.94%
Rheinhessen 1.58%
Pfalz 0.63%

Most are Riesling. In addition, I have some Sekt, Spatburgunder, Scherube, and I think Gewurtz that aren't in CT, so total is probably around 12%

105 bottles from Mosel Saar Ruwer

2001 Markus Molitor (Haus Klosterberg) Riesling Auslese Zeltinger Sonnenuhr (2)
2004 Markus Molitor Riesling Spatlese Wehlener Sonnenuhr (3)
2005 Joh. Jos. Prum Riesling Auslese Wehlener Sonnenuhr (18)
2005 Joh.Jos. Prum Riesling Spatlese Wehlener Sonnenuhr (14)
2001 Joh. Jos. Prum Riesling Spatlese Wehlener Sonnenuhr (6)
2003 Joh. Jos. Prum Riesling Spatlese Graacher Himmelreich (3)
2003 Joh. Jos. Prum Riesling Auslese Graacher Himmelreich (11)
2002 Joh. Jos Prum Riesling Auslese Wehlener Sonnenuhr (12)
1998 Joh. Jos Prum Auslese Wehlener Sonnenuhr (1)
2002 Joh. Jos Prum Riesling Spatlese Wehlener Sonnenuhr (2)
2001 Dr. H. Thanisch (Muller-Burggraef) Riesling Beerenauslese Berncasteler Doctor (3)
2001 Dr. H. Thanisch (Muller-Burggraef) Riesling Auslese Bernkasteler Lay (6)
2006 Zilliken Riesling Kabinett Saarburger Rausch (10)
2007 Joh. Jos Prum Riesling (7)

I've increased my German holdings dramatically in the last 4 years. I went from 1 bottle (0.13% at that time) to 46 bottles ( 44 MSR, 2 Nahe, 4.41% total).

Vinomaniac, some nice verticals. Where are you in KS?

in Hutch, how about you?

All Mosel for me.

Leavenworth (not the USP)

Rheingau (11 bottles, 40.74%, avg. 2004.3)
Mosel Saar Ruwer (7 bottles, 25.93%, avg. 2004.4)
Rheinhessen (4 bottles, 14.81%, avg. 2003.0)
Hessische Bergstraße (3 bottles, 11.11%, avg. 2003.0)
Ahr (1 bottle, 3.70%, avg. 2004.0)
Nahe (1 bottle, 3.70%, avg. 2005.0)


I've wanted to expand this for a while now....always looking.

About a row. The Burgundy section flowed over into the Greman row and the German's ran the Spanish and Australians mostly out of my cellar. So about 20.

All my 375's of sweet wines are lumped together in a bin. There are some German's in there I know, but they are more like tourist and are freely mingling with American's and Hungarian's.

I love German wines! So did a quick count,. this surprised me a bit as I thought I was a bit more balanced than this.

Mosel Saar Ruwer (149 bottles)
Pfalz (16 bottles)
Rheingau (13 bottles)
Nahe (6 bottles)
Mittelrhein (4 bottles)
Rheinhessen (4 bottles)

793 bottles (40.71%) :

Mosel Saar Ruwer (410 bottles & 6 pending, 21.36%)
Nahe (140 bottles, 7.19%)
Rheingau (119 bottles & 2 pending, 6.21%)
Pfalz (52 bottles, 2.67%)
Rheinhessen (30 bottles, 1.54%)
Franken (29 bottles, 1.49%)
Mittelrhein (5 bottles, 0.26%)

35.81% of that is dry, from Kabinett to Grosses Gewachs.
Obviously I'm done buying off-dry rieslings and I'll skip a few vintages for the dry stuff

quote:

Originally posted by ArieS:
793 bottles (40.71%) :

That is a lot of Riesling.


I have 1 Josef Leitz Spatlese from Rheingau.

This thread got me curious of the breakdown of the meager amount of German wines I have in my cellar. So now I know.

German Wines (all white)

37 bottles
7.5% of cellar

22 750ml
5 500ml
10 375ml

33 Riesling
3 Scheurebe
1 Rieslaner

0 Kabinett
1 Grosses Gewachs
11 Spatlese
25 Auslese

14 Mosel Saar Ruwer (38%)
7 Rheinhessen (19%)
7 Nahe (19%)
6 Pfalz (16%)
3 Mittelrhein (8%)