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2 unusual facts about German wine


David Schildknecht

An authority on the wine of Germany and Austria, he also considers the Loire Valley a specialty, a wine region he has described as "the bargain garden of France".

Gerhard Eichelmann

Gerhard Eichelmann (born in 1962) is a leading German wine critic with an international influence on German wine.


Williswinde

He wrote to Veen: The book cover has a dirty colour and has something that reminds me of Gartenlaube am Rhine, where we drank Rhine wine.


see also

Allemand

Elbling, German wine grape that is also known as Allemand

Ernst Loosen

He is particularly known for the quality of his Rieslings, having won "Riesling of the Year" in 1989 as awarded by the German wine trade magazine Feinschmecker.

Fortified wine

The person credited with the second vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction "vermouth" in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavored with wormwood, an herb most famously used in distilling absinthe.

Mineral Wells, Texas

Since March 1945, the southern wall of Deutsches Weintor ("German Wine Gate") in Schweigen-Rechtenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, bears the Graffito: "Jere Gills Min. Wells 3-45" and a map of Texas with a star, marking the position of Mineral Wells.

Rodenstock

Hardy Rodenstock, pseudonym for Meinhard Görke, a German wine collector

Silvaner

In Germany it is best known as a component of Liebfraumilch and production boomed in the 1970s to the detriment of quality, but it has long enjoyed a better reputation in Franconia than in other German wine regions.