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This is where you can discover fascinating details about a different grape variety every month, as well as new recipes that complement the featured variety.

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Almonds in Spring, Chestnuts in Autumn - Namesakes of Sites and Festivals in the Pfalz

One of the year’s earliest wine festivals in Germany celebrates both wine and the blossoming of Mandel (almond) trees – a harbinger of spring and the start of a new growing season. The Mandelblütenfest takes place in March (date varies, depending on the outset of blossoming) in the Neustadt suburb of Gimmeldingen, midway along the Deutsche Weinstrasse (German Wine Road) ....

Assmannshausen’s ‘Hellishly’ Steep Site - Spätburgunder Par Excellence

Although the Rheingau is best known for its Riesling wines, the Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) grape has also been cultivated here for centuries, particularly in the red wine enclave Assmannshausen. The town is situated about 4.5 km (3 miles) downstream from Rüdesheim, where the Rhine makes a sweeping bend and resumes its south-north course.

Johannisberg – Famous Name in the Rheingau...and in the Nahe Region

Lesehelfer im Weingut Prinz zu Salm-Dalberg

This month’s famous vineyard site is located in the heart of the Nahe wine-growing region, in Wallhausen, a thousand-year-old wine village situated some 10 km (6 miles) northwest of Bad Kreuznach in the Gräfenbach Valley (a Bach is a stream or brook).

Idig – Vineyard of the Electors of the Pfalz

This month’s famous vineyard site is located in the heart of the Pfalz wine-growing region, in Königsbach, a wine village north of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse.

Heerkretz - Top vineyard in "Rheinhessen's Switzerland"

The western fringe of Germany’s largest wine-growing region, Rheinhessen, takes in the steep hillsides and forested summits of “Rheinhessen’s Switzerland” – a little-known circle of wine villages fanning out south of Wöllstein (southeast of Bad Kreuznach/Nahe).