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I lived for a time in Wurzburg, Germany, in the heart of Franken wine district. Lots of Sylvaner there in flattened flask shaped bottles of green glass.* I was never very fond of the Sylvaner wines although there were a few sources around Wurzburg and Kitzingen that rose above the rest of the crowd. I think I recall a Hospice bottling as one of them. Julius something. (Just googled for it and found Juliusspital and Burgerspital zum Heilege Geist (citizens or town hospital of the Holy Ghost). I think these were the ones that sometimes were a cut above. Good web site on Franken wines at http://www.chiff.com/wine/europe/franken.htm
Some call Franken wine the most masculine of German wine. *The bottle I was recalling is the "Bocksbeutel."