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For some, the number 13 is unlucky. For the German wine industry, the number reminds us of the spectacular slopes, picturesque villages, and winding river bends of our 13 regions officially designated for producing quality wine. They number among the most northerly wine-growing regions […]

According to The German Wine Institute (DWI) wine lovers can look forward to fresh, fruity wines from the 2019 vintage. Thanks to the rain-free, sunny summer, wine grapes in Germany’s 13 wine-growing regions were healthy and well-developed at the time that the first of […]

On Sunday, March 31, Wines of Germany participated as a beverage sponsor at the launch event of Lamb Jam’s 2019 tour in Austin, TX, pouring an array of German wines for consumer, media, industry, and influencer attendees of the traveling chef competition and culinary […]

Wines of Germany is marking March 13th as the official birthday of Riesling in honor of the first documented evidence of the grape, from the cellar log of Count Katzenelnbogen near the Rheingau region on March 13, 1435. Please join us in celebrating over […]

The 2019 ProWeinTrade Fair is taking place in Düsseldorf on March 17, 2019 and over 20 types of German sparkling wines (Sekt) will be available for open tasting. These samples are the prizewinning entries from a total of 200 submitted samples and were chosen […]

Thanks to the frosty temperatures from January 19-22, numerous winemakers in nearly every German winegrowing region successfully harvested Eiswein (ice wine) grapes. Eiswein-quality fruit can only be harvested at temperatures of -7°C and below. According to the German Wine Institute (DWI), temperatures fell to […]

After a dry and extremely hot summer, German winemakers’ 2018 harvest produced exceptional quality grapes across Germany’s 13 wine regions. While yield varied from region to region, vine development was ahead of schedule throughout the country and some regions achieved their earliest recorded harvest. […]