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Napa Vintage, German Changes

Napa set to have a great vintage in 2007. It was a very dry year, driest in at least the past 10 years.
German wine name changes! Effective August 1, 2007, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer will now be known as Mosel, and Qualitätswein mit Prädikat is now Prädikatswein. (Prädikat is the level of ripeness of the grapes, measured by the natural sugar of the grape juice at the time of harvest. Prädikatsweine are never chaptalised. The six levels of Prädikatsweine in Germany, in ascending order: Kabinett, Spätlese, Auslese, Beerenauslese, Eiswein and Trockenbeerenauslese.)

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