To mark the start of the international ProWein wine trade fair, the German Wine Institute (DWI) announced the winners of its competition to find the best German Sekt on March 17th. The three victors were chosen from 200 submitted samples hailing from all 13 […]
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Germany´s 2018 Grape Harvest Exceeds Expectations
After last year´s below-average crops and depleted cellar stocks, latest estimates predict that this year’s wine harvest will reach approximately 10.7 million hectoliters in volume nationwide. According to the German Wine Institute (DWI), this will correspond to a 23% rise above the 10-year average […]
Carolin Klöckner Elected 70th German Wine Queen
Carolin Klöckner, from Vaihingen (near Stuttgart) in the Württemberg region, has been named the 70th German Wine Queen. She is joined in her reign by German Wine Princesses Klara Zehnder from the Franken region and Inga Storck from the Pfalz region. To the raucous […]
Heatwave Brings on Germany’s Earliest Harvest in History
The 2018 grape harvest season started unusually early in Germany, with the first grapes for ‘Federweißer’ picked on August 6 – the earliest start-date on record – in Germany’s largest wine-growing region, Rheinhessen. Germany experienced a warm spring and a very hot summer, causing […]
