17
Aug
Mittelrhein Producers
Tonu Jost, VDP. Weingut
Mittelrhein: Romance on the Rhine →
Jesse Becker MS
Master Sommelier • VDP.Ambassador • DWI German Wine Professional. I write Wine in Germany & Austria, sell German wine, and co-own Rockwerk Grüner Veltliner.
17
Aug
Hessische Bergstraße: The Spring Garden
The Hessische Bergstraße is Germany’s smallest wine region, with 463 hectares. The Romans called this 40-kilometer stretch between Darmstadt and Heidelberg the Strata Montana (mountain road).
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17
Aug
Hessische Bergstraße Producers
Griesel & Compagnie, Sekthaus
Simon-Bürkle, Weingut
Hessische Bergstraße: The Spring Garden →
17
Aug
Germany's VDP
The stylized "Traubenadler" (grape eagle) originally faced left. With the 2012 rollout of the VDP's vineyard classification, the eagle turned its head to the right, symbolically looking toward the future rather than the past.
5 min read
17
Aug
German Wine References
Bibliography
Bird, Owen. Rheingold, The German Wine Renaissance. Arima Publishing, 2005.
Braatz, Dieter. Sautter, Ulrich. Swoboda, Ingo. Wine Atlas of
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17
Aug
German Wine Law
The First German Wine Law, enacted on April 20th, 1892, was the first federal attempt to regulate production. It focused on hygiene and preventing the sale of "artificial" wine. The 1892 law prohibited the use of chemical additives but allowed the addition of sugar to compensate for the na
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17
Aug
German Wine History
"The light at the end of the Dark Ages has a name - and it is Charlemagne." — Huge Johnson, The Story of Wine
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17
Aug
German Wine Glossary
Anreicherung (Chaptalization)
The French chemist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal invented the practice of enriching the grape must before or during
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17
Aug
German Vintages
2024
2024 saw record-breaking March temperatures in Germany, pushing budbreak two to four weeks ahead of normal. The ensuing
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17
Aug
German Grape Varieties White
Bacchus is a Silvaner x Riesling cross with Müller-Thurgau (Riesling x Madeleine Royale). It was developed by Peter Morio at the Geilweilerhof Institute in the Pfalz in 1933 and released for general cultivation in 1972. Bacchus is named after the Roman god of wine (Dionysus in Greece). It
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