Spätlese

German

Riesling Spätlese

Etymology

From spät (“late”) +‎ Lese (“harvest”). Cognate with lesen (“to read, select, pick”), which yields a high-quality connotation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃpɛːtˌleːzə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Spät‧le‧se

Noun

Spätlese f (genitive Spätlese, plural Spätlesen)

1. (literally) a late harvest, at the end of or after the normal harvesting season
2. (metonymically) a (usually white) wine made from grapes which are purposefully harvested very late, so as to be extra sweet

Declension

Declension of Spätlese [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Spätlese	die	Spätlesen
genitive	einer	der	Spätlese	der	Spätlesen
dative	einer	der	Spätlese	den	Spätlesen
accusative	eine	die	Spätlese	die	Spätlesen

Related terms

• Auslese
• Beerenauslese
• Trockenbeerenauslese

See also

• Eiswein
• Glühwein
• Federweißer
• Weißwein
• Rotwein
• Landwein
• Tafelwein
• Qualitätswein
• Riesling
• Gewürztraminer
• Spätburgunder

Further reading

• “Spätlese” in Duden online
• “Spätlese” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache