Reserve wine system, most DACs have an additional "Reserve" designation for a wine which has slightly more strict requirements. Before the 1971 German wine law, a term corresponding to reserve wine existed in "kabinett", sometimes written as "Kabinettwein". In 1971, the similar-sounding term "Kabinett" was instead introduced as the lowest level of the "Prädikatswein" category, i.e., with a completely different meaning. Therefore, in the present German wine classification no legally defined term corresponding to reserve wine exists. Reserve wine Reserve wine is wine of a higher quality than usual, or a wine that has been aged before being sold, or both. Traditionally,
New High German New High German New High German (NHG) is the term used for the most recent period in the history of the German language. It is a translation of the German (). It includes all of the modern High German dialects since the Baroque period, but is often used as a synonym for Standard German. The German term was originally coined in 1848 by Jacob Grimm for the period from 1500 to the present day, following on from Middle High German (). However, Wilhelm Scherer redefined it as the period from 1650, introducing a new term (Early New High German) for