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Wine (takes out lat. vinum) is an alcoholic beverage from the vergorenen juice of wine berries. Usually it concerned thereby the European common grape vine (Vitis vinifera). This kind of vine is not reblausresistent and on American documents (roots) of the kind Vitis riparia or Vitis berlandieri is therefore grafted.
Only one beverage, which comes from fruits of the common grape vine, may carry the trade name "wine". The vergorenen juices from other fruits are designated than wine-similar beverages or fruit wine and contained to have the respective names of the vergorenen fruit (for example "apple wine "). Wine from honey is called honey wine or Met.
Weinhaltige of beverages are such, those except wine still different materials, e.g. for aromatizing, contained as for instance who courage wine (Vermouth).
There are approx. 10,000 Rebsorten, and approx. 50 is cultivated in Germany. Frequently the read property originates for this from one of the 13 determined areas of cultivation of wine. On the market also blend wines from the five different Weinbaugebieten are, partly than cheap board wine filled up in the Tetrapak.
In the broader sense rank among the wines also:
Only with the "development" in a viticulture enterprise or a wine cellar the wine becomes a finished product.
The wine won during the wine production from Weintrauben usually reaches thereby an alcohol content between 8,5 and 14 percent by volume alcohol (ethanol). In addition, there are wines with lower and higher alcohol content. Thus some French, California and Hungarian wines up to 16 reach percent by volume. Over 16,5 percent by volume alcohol the yeasts die.
The "development" of the Weines to a multiplicity of different quality classes usually takes place in a wine cellar.
One calls the cultivation from common grape vines to the purpose of the wine production also viticulture. Already since that 6. Millenium before Christ is operated these in Anterior Asia, in order to manufacture wine.
see major item history of the wine
Already in old Egypt the cultivation of wine experienced a substantial attention and propagation. In the antique mythology there was Osiris (Egypt), Dionysos (Greece), Bacchus (Roman mythology) or Gilgamesch (Babylonien), which represented the wine and/or wine benefit.
In the Bible, where Noach is considered to winegrowers as the first Weingeniesser and, the wine experiences a rich symbolic use. In the Psalmen the wine serves for the joy of life, with Salomo is it also medicine for suffering and caution-ordering Rauschmittel. The people Israel is compared with a vineyard, Jesus describes the connection with its successors as between Weinstock and vines. Working the holy spirit is compared with fermenting new wine. Wine can entice and also - when tumbling cups - clarify which anger.
The Bible guesses/advises expressly to constant, but moderate wine benefit; Jesus Sirach 31, verse 25ff is characteristic:
In the Sakrament of the communion (Eucharistie) the wine forms the element for the blood Christi.
see the major item quality class (wine)
After the German wine law the following quality requirements must be fulfilled:
Against board wines and Landweine only small demands are made concerning their alcohol and Mostgewichtgehalts like also the origin. However some the premium wines of the respective regions as simple board wines are also defined, if they may be called e.g. because of the cultivated Rebsorte by law only board wine.
Wines with higher alcohol content, strengthened wines so mentioned, e.g. are.:
For this usually a reinforcement and/or a Aufspritung with Weinbrand is necessary, since the yeasts die with 17,5 Vol% ethanol. With some sweet wines with high ethanol content the fermentation is stopped by the addition by ethanol - Weinbrand -.
Weinhaltige of beverages are:
Wines, which are made of other fruits than Weintrauben, have a special status the fruit wines (for example to Erdbeerwein, see fruit wine).
In many countries wine lovers have themselves and - connoisseurs to associations united, in order to cultivate the wine benefit together. In the German language area these clubs call themselves usually Weinbruderschaften or wine conventions. These look partly on a centuries-old tradition back.
In the wine areas of Germany wine celebrations have frequently a people fixed character. Detailed these are to be found in the article over wine celebrations, while only a short overview stands here.
The largest wine celebration of the world is the sausage market, the largest winegrower procession takes place during the German wine read reading.
In the Weinbaugebiet Pfalz annually a calendar given change with information about times and places of all wine celebrations. Also for the Weinbaugebiet Franconia gives it such a calendar.
In the southernmost Weinbaugebieten of Germany, in bathing, at the emperor chair and Tuniberg, in the and also in the neighbouring Elsass annually numerous wine celebrations take place. Among the largest and most well-known the celebrations at the crying race of Baden rank, e.g. in the warmest place of Germany the Ihringer wine days (always on weekend after Fronleichnam) as well as the wine celebration Kaiserstuhl Tuniberg in mash oh on the Rhine (always on the last weekend in August). In its "wine village "many of more than 70 regional and supraregional winegrowers' co-operatives participate, which are attached the winegrower cellar of Baden, one of the largest wine wine cellars of Europe.
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