About the glossary

Notes on the use of the wine glossary

The wine glossary is the largest online wine-related data base in the world. It is structured just like a classical encyclopaedia, and consists of keywords (terms) and entries (texts) that explain these keywords.

To search for keywords in the glossary, enter the desired word in the field „Keyword search“, then click onto „Display results“. The system will then search the glossary for appropriate keywords, and will display the search results. These are sorted according to relevance, i.e. the degree of correspondence, the searched-for keyword will appear first, followed by all terms, in descending order of relevance, that contain the keyword. The entry of search terms is not case sensitive, and special symbols or forms of letters need not be considered, e.g. a search for „cote du rhone“ will lead to a result, as will a specific search for „Côtes du Rhône“. In many cases, small typographical errors will be tolerated, as the system provides synonyms.

Should the searched-for keyword not be found in the glossary, an appropriate message will be displayed. If you have entered several words for your search, and no glossary entry was found for them, you can display results for each individual keyword entered, for example, if you have entered „Piesporter Juffer“ (which would be incorrect for a single vineyard site on the Mosel river), you can view the results for „Piesporter“ (related to the town of Piesport, which has different sites) and for „Juffer“ (which is a site designation in other towns).

The glossary has a self-learning function, as every unsuccessful search is recorded, and the author notified. Each unsuccessful attempt is checked, and the possibility investigated of adding this keyword to the glossary.

If you would like to display all the keywords that begin with a specific initial letter, you may use the Letter Bar for this. Some notes on the use of this: the keywords are presented in alphabetic order, as they are written, regardless of their pronunciation or meaning. Keywords consisting of several independent words, whether they are joined by hyphens or not, are treated as a single conjoined word. This means that punctuation or special symbols such as spaces, hyphens, full stops. Commas, apostrophes and accents are ignored for the purpose of sorting. Umlauts (Ä, Ö and Ü) are treated as their basic form. i.e. the normal letters (A, O and U); the German sharp S (ß) is treated as a double S (ss). Should you not find a specific word under C, please also look under K and Z nach; the same applies to Ch under Dsch and Tsch, F under Ph, J under Y, Sch under Ch and Sh as well as V under W (and vice versa in each case).

All texts in red are hyperlinks to the corresponding keywords.

Contents of wine glossary

The Wein-Plus Glossary contains entries related to more than 16,000 keywords. There are descriptions of more than 1,500 grape varieties, more than 1,500 wine estates with their wines, more than 10,000 terms related to vineyards, viticulture, wine and vinification, around 100 countries, including their wine-growing history and wine regions as well as more than 500 famous personalities directly related to wine. Anybody interested in history is also sure to find interesting items, as wine is associated with many true occurrences, anecdotes and legends, which can be found elaborated on under many keywords.

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Aeberhard, Marcel
History of ancient grape varieties
Aarcadia-Verlag, Solothurn 2005

A La Carte - The Gourmet Guide
Schmid, Hans (ed.)
Restaurant Guide Publishing

Ambrosi, Hans
Wine Dictionary
Falken-Verlag, 1998 Niedernhausen

Anderson, Burton
Atlas of Italian wines
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart 1998

Anderson, Burton
Italian Wines 2000/2001
More than 2,000 wines and producers
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart 2000

Bassermann-Jordan, Frederick
History of wine
Heinrich Keller, Frankfurt am Main in 1907

Bernert, Hans
And right he should be sparkling
Paul Neff Verlag

Bible
Herder KG, Freiburg

Bieber, Ernst
Wine treasures in Austria
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Unique Verlag, Graz 2002

Blaschke, Fritz / Mohr, Gerhard
World of burnt wine
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Blaustein, Reinhard
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Bockholt, Werner
So I am indeed free drunk
Goethe and the wine
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Bonnefoit, Guy
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Braatz, Dieter / Sautter, Ulrich / Ingo Swoboda / Hendrik Holler
Wine Atlas of Germany
Hallwaag, Munich 2007

Broadbent, Michael
Check wines to know, enjoy
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart 1999

Bruckner, Bernulf (text) / Stein, Gerhard (picture)
The wine connoisseur
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The Austrian Wine Law
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Dr. Burmeister, Jens
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Clarke, Oz
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600 wines from around the world
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Clarke, Oz
Clarke's big encyclopaedia of wines
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Clarke, Oz
Clarke's big encyclopaedia of vines
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Dähnhard, Wolfgang
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Dähnhard, Wolfgang
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Dähnhard, Wolfgang
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NP book publisher, St. Poelten, Vienna, Linz 2001

Dähnhard, Wolfgang
Burgenland wine tours
NP book publisher, St. Poelten, Vienna, Linz 2001

Daniel, Christopher
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(Food in Ancient Rome)
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German Wine Atlas
Ed German Wine Institute
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DWI - German Wine Institute
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Dippel, Horst
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Dominé, André (ed.)
Wine
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Eckhart, Walter / Sommer, Robert
It was the phylloxera
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Eder, Reinhard (Editorial Board)
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Eichelmann, Gerhard
Wines of Germany 2006
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Enoteca Italiana
Encyclopaedia of Italian wines
all DOCG and DOC wines
Hallwag, Munich 2000

Food prices, Sigrun
Several articles in the Wein-Plus

Falstaff magazine for food, drink, travel
Falstaff Publishing GesmbH, Klosterneuburg

Gabriel Rene
Total Bordeaux
Weinwisser Verlag 2004

Gault Millau Wine and Spirits 2000 Austria
Michael Reinartz (eds.)
Guide Verlagsanstalt

Society for the History of Wine
Paul Claus and staff
Personalities of the wine culture
Short biographies of 16 centuries
Writings on the history of wine No. 140
Wiesbaden 2002

Gööck, Roland
Wine - 75 spicy recipes from around the world
Sigloch Edition, Salzburg 1983

Guía Peñin
Spain's Wine Guide No. 1
King Heel Winter 2005

Guinness Book of World Records 2000
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Hachette - Wine Guide France 2003
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart 2003

Hanten, Christa / Haemmerle, Peter
Vinegar - The acid environment
Verlag Holzhausen. Vienna 2000

Hanten, Christa
Best of Sweet - The Catalogue 2001
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Hanten, Christa
The ABC's of Wine Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Eno-Verlag 2003

Hanten, Christa / driver, Walter
Wein Burgenland
Gutenberg Edition, 2004 Wiener Neustadt

Hellwig, Gerhard
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Hillebrand, Walter / Lott, Heinz / Pfaff, Franz
Paperback of grape varieties
Fachverlag Fraund, Mainz, 1997

Hoeniger, Karl Theodor
South Tyrolean Wine Guide
Ferrari Auer Verlag AG, Bolzano 1964

Hoffman, Kurt
Enology in brief
Ferdinand Hirt, 1987 Unterägeri

Hofschuster, Marcus
The Wein-Plus Wine Guide Germany 2002 (in four volumes)
Utz Graafmann , Erlangen, 2002

Holecek, Heinz / Svec, Isa
Wine Travel in the footsteps of the Habsburgs
S Edition - Verlag Austria, Vienna 1994

Hubert, Wolfgang
Spanish and Portuguese wines in 2001
Mary Hahn Verlag, Munich 2001

Johnson, Hugh
Hugh Johnson Wine Companion
Rand McNally, Bern and Munich 2001

Johnson, Hugh
Atlas of German Wines
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart in 1997

Johnson, Hugh / Duijker, Hubrecht
Atlas of French Wines
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart 1998

Johnson, Hugh
Hugh Johnson's wine connoisseur
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart 2002

Johnson, Hugh
The new Wine Atlas - countries, locations, qualities
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart 1998

Johnson, Hugh
Wining and dining
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart 1998

Johnson, Hugh
Wine history - from Dionysus to Rothschild
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart in 1990

Johnson, Hugh / James Halliday
How wine is made
Gift from the gods, made by people
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart 1993

Jordan, Peter H.
Vintage Chronicle - Wine in the last 2000 years

Joseph, Robert / Simon, Joanna
The white wines of France
Pietsch, Dietikon-Zurich 1989

Katschner, Engelbert
Wine Country Styria - the 100 best wineries
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Kammer, Frank
The 100 best vineyards of Germany
Hampp Media GmbH, Stuttgart 2006

Short, Joachim
The Rothschilds and the wine - a Bordeaux success story
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Coachman, Walter
The Austrian Wine Guide 1995 - 1000 wines, evaluated and described
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Coachman, Walter
Wine marketing / winegrowers practice Volume 7
Austrian Agricultural Press, 2003 Leopoldsdorf

Coachman, Walter
Wine Country of Lower Austria - growing regions, varieties,
Winemakers Gutenberg Edition, 2003

Lemperle, Edmund
Recognize wine faults - Determine avoid, remedy
Eugen Ulmer KG, 2007

Mark, Egon
The Wine Quiz - Learn wine like a sommelier
Publisher brothers Kornmayer, Rödermark 2008

McCabe, John
www.champagner.com

Meesters, Karel
Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine
Hallwag, Bern and Stuttgart 2000

Michel, Christoph
Goethe - The poet and the wine
Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2000

Parker, Robert M.
Parker's Wine Guide
Heyne, Munich 2000

Peppercorn, David
Bordeaux - 1000 Chateaux and wines
Hallwaag, Munich and Bern, 2002

Peynaud, Émile
The high school for wine connoisseurs
Müller Rüschlikon, Cham 1995

Phillips, Roderick
The great story of the wine
Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2001

Priewe, Jens
Wine - The new high school - all over the world of wine
Zabert Sandmann, Munich 1997

Priewe, Jens
Wine - The New World
Zabert Sandmann, Munich 1998

Pronay, Michael
Various publications

Radford, John
Vineyards in Spain - Tradition and renewal
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart 1998

Ratzke, Norbert
www.libanon-info.de

Rasch, Johann
Wine Book - of viticulture, the care and custom of wine
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Regner, Ferdinand
Find out more about our grapes
The winemaker - 11/1999

Regner, Ferdinand
Genetic analysis of grape varieties
German wine Yearbook 2000, Waldkircher publisher, Waldkirch

Robinson, Jancis
Grapes and wines
Rand McNally, Bern and Stuttgart 1998

Robinson, Jancis (Ed.)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Wine
Engl. Original edition, "The Oxford Companion to Wine"
Oxford University Press, 1994/1999
Rand McNally - Graefe and Unzer publisher 1995/2003

Sailer, Michael
The book of Tokaj
Michael Sailer publisher. Munich

Scheuermann, Mario
The great wines of the century
Hawks, Niedernhausen 1999

Schreiner, Bernd
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Siegl, Victor / Steurer, Rudolf
Recognize and enjoy wine - the wine guide for beginners
Ueberreuter, Vienna 2000

Steidl, Robert
Enology
Austrian agricultural publishing - 2001 Leopoldsdorf
Department of Enology / Dept. Enology
Higher Federal College and Office
for Viticulture and Horticulture Klosterneuburg north

Steurer, Rudolf
Wine Guide
Ueberreuter, Vienna 1995

Steurer, Rudolf
World Wine Almanac
Gondrom, Bindlach 1997

Stevenson, Tom
The New Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia - Wines of the World
Club Premiere 2001

Stublia, Belinda / Mölstad, Mikael
The small wine school
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South African Wine Guide online at www.sa-weine.de

Supp, Eckhard
Encyclopedia of Italian wines
Eno-Verlag, Offenbach 1997

Supp, Eckhard
ABC of Italian wines
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Tischelmayer, Norbert
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NP-Verlag, 2001 St. Pölten

Vinaria - Journal of Austrian wine culture
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Vinaria - Our wine
Driver / Pronay / Schleimer / Siegl
LW advertising and publishing company in St. Pölten - Vienna

Vini d'Italia
Gambero Rosso
Slow Food Editore

Vitis International Variety Catalogue
Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated BAW
Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (IRZ)
http://www.vivc.bafz.de

Vogt, Ernst / baking oven door, Günter
Viniculture
Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1950/2000

Vogt, Ina
Wine Law in Germany - Wine Law, Wine Law etc.
SV Saxonia publisher of Law, Economics and Culture, Dresden 2009

WIKIPEDIA - The Free Encyclopedia
http://de.wikipedia.org
Use of various facts

Dictionary of German winegrowers language (WDW)
See below www.winzersprache.de

The winemaker - The journal of Austrian viticulture
Austrian agricultural publications printing and publishing Ges.mbH
http://www.der-winzer.at

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