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Tiefenthaler Graukatz

Tiefenthaler gray cat  Valley, forest, red stone - and where is the cat?   Is there a gray cat lurking in the deep valley? At least the small village of Tiefenthal lies in a valley. So far, so good. The name is possibly derived from a grape variety, the "Graukätzer", so the story goes. If one searches for this variety today, one does not find anything. But it would fit to the word sound of other historical vine variety names, like "Schwarzurban", "Gänsfüßer" or "Süßschwarz". In any case, the soil here is not gray, but rather red. Here…