German Wine References
Bibliography
Bird, Owen. Rheingold, The German Wine Renaissance. Arima Publishing, 2005.
Braatz, Dieter. Sautter, Ulrich. Swoboda, Ingo. Wine Atlas of Germany — English Translation. University of California Press, 2014.
Broadbent, Michael. Michael Broadbent's Vintage Wine, Fifty Years of Tasting Three Centuries of Wines. Harcourt Inc, 2002.
Brook, Stephen. The Wines of Germany. Mitchell Beazley, 2003.
Deckers, Daniel. The Sign of the Grape and Eagle: A History of German Wine. Frankfurt Academic Presse, 2018.
Haeger, John Winthrop. Riesling Rediscovered, Bold Bright, and Dry. University of California Press, 2016.
Hallgarten, S. F. German Wines. Publivin London, 1981.
Jamieson, Ian. German Wines. Farber and Farber Limited, 1991.
Johnson, Hugh & Robinson, MW, Jancis. The World Atlas of Wine 8th Edition. Mitchell Beazley, 2019.
Johnson, Hugh. The Story of Wine — New Illustrated Edition. Mitchell Beazley, 2002.
Krebiehl MW, Anne. The Wines of Germany. Infinite Ideas Ltd., 2019.
Koch, Karl Heinrich. Mosel Wine: In Praise of Mosel Wine. Translated from the German by Lars Carlberg, Kevin Goldberg, Per Linder, and David Schildknecht. Domain Scott, 2022.
Reinhardt, Stephan. The Finest Wines of Germany. University of California Press, 2012.
Robinson MW, Jancis. Harding, Julia. Vouillamoz, José. Wine Grapes. HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2012.
Schoonmaker, Frank. The Wines of Germany — Completely Revised Edition by Peter M. F. Sichel. Hastings House Publishers, 1980.
Online Resources
Deutsches Weininstituts Regional and Vineyard Map
2025 Draft Bill to introduce a nationwide system of vineyard classification [German]*
2013 Common Organisation of Markets in the EU, Regulation 1308/2013
1995 Wein-Verordnung (WeinV) Fifth German Wine Law [German]**
1994 Wein-Gesetz (WeinG) Fifth German Wine Law Promulgated Version [German]***
1971 Wein-Gesetz (Bundesgesetzblatt) Fifth German Wine Law Original Version [German]****
*See English translation below in Downloads
**implements the rules and regulations in practice.
***Sets the base rules and standards
****See English translation below in Downloads