This rank of quality for Austrian wine requires that the grapes be shriveled and nearly completely affected by noble rot. Harvested grapes have a minimum must weight of 30° KMW. The wine must have a minimum of 5% alcohol.
In the Qualitätswein mit Prädikat category of German white wines, as described by German wine law, this wine is made from the ripest grapes and so is the most rare, rich and expensive. It is made from the selected harvest (auslese) of individually picked grapes (beeren) that have been dried up (trocken) by noble rot, resulting in a wine that is richly sweet and deep gold in colour. The difficulty and risk of producing these wines, along with their exceptional quality, make them among the most expensive and highly prized wines in the world. German Wine Terms- Dallas Bartenders; Beverage Catering
(TROCK-en-BEHR-en-OWS-lay-zeh) - Tongue-twisting name for the sweetest and most expensive quality level of German wine, literally "dried individual grapes picked out," hand-selected and botrytis-affected.
Individually picked grapes left on the vine until they become raisins. Made only in great vintage years.
German and Austrian term for 'dry berry selection', referring to a very sweet (and expensive) QmP wine made from grapes affected by Noble Rot.
(trok-en-beer-en-ow--slay-zuh) rare German wine made from specially selected overripe grapes
The sweetest of the six Pradikat levels for German wine. Rare and expensive this sweet wine is mainly only avalable in half bottles and is only produced in exceptional years using hand picked grapes.
And you thought beerenauslese was bad! Trockenbeerenauslese means dry berry selection, and refers to the process of picking only the dried, or raisin grapes. They're then used to make the best German dessert wines in the world.
Trockenbeerenauslese is a German and Austrian wine term and type of dessert wine meaning "selected dried berries." Often abbreviated to TBA, it is one of the German wine classification levels in the Qm P category and the one requiring the highest must weight.