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Kalk: Limestone, Lineage, and the Structural Spine of German Wine

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Oct 23, 2025
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Kalk: Limestone, Lineage, and the Structural Spine of German Wine

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The word Kalk appears with quiet frequency in the vocabulary of German wine. It refers to limestone, a sedimentary rock composed largely of …

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