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What is the name of the famous branded wine whose name was initially only allowed to be used when the grapes grew in a relatively small area "as far as the tower of the church cast its shadow"?
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Correct answer is: Liebfrauenmilch
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Liebfrauenmilch
Historic branded wine from Germany. The "famous Lieben Frauen Milch zu Worms" was first mentioned in 1744. At that time, this designation could only be used if the grapes grew in the area "as far as the tower of the Liebfrauenkirche cast its shadow". This meant the vineyards of the Capuchin monastery "Stiftskirche Liebfrauenkirche" in Worms in Rheinhessen. Unfortunately, however, this geographically narrowly defined term was later extended to all Rhine wines, thus diluting the origin. In 1808, in the course of the Napoleonic secularisation, the remaining part of the monastery and most of the original...
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