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GWA participant falls in love with wines from Baden region
The 15th German Wine Academy (GWA) guided 28 wine educators from 15 countries to the winegrowing region of Baden this time. Excellent wines from cooperatives as well as wines from emerging talents were tasted.
Read moreFinal figures: 10.4 million hectoliters of wine must 2018
The national wine production of the vintage 2018 amounts to 10.4 million hectoliters (hl) in Germany. These figures range slightly below the 10.67 hl estimate that had been published in October 2018. The up to date figures have been circulated by the German Wine Institute (DWI) on the basis of the final harvest results of the Federal Statistical...
Read moreDWI honours four new Riesling Fellows at the Berlin Reichstag
On April 1st the German Wine Institute (DWI) awarded the four new Riesling Fellows Lars Daniëls from the Netherlands, Nico Knott from Belgium, Nils Flaaten from Norway and Tomasz Prange-Barczyński from Poland at the Berlin Reichstag for their international efforts concerning Riesling and German wines in general.
Read moreMundus Vini Nordic: The First Scandinavian Award for German Wines
In order to support this positive export-development of German wines and to further promote the "German Wine" brand abroad, the German wine publishing house Meininger is organizing the first ever wine competition Mundus Vini Nordic in cooperation with the German Wine Institute.
Read moreGermany's Best Sekt Wines Selected
To mark the start of the international ProWein wine trade fair, the German Wine Institute (DWI) on March 17 announced the winners of its competition to find the best German sekt. The three victors were culled from 200 submitted samples from all 13 German winegrowing regions.
Read moreGermans Reaching for More White than Red
For the first time since 1999, German consumers purchased more white wine than red this past year.
Read moreRising revenues for German wine sales
The value of wine sold in Germany rose by roughly one percent in 2018 in a year-over-year comparison. The statistics were measured in a study by the German Wine Institute (DWI) ahead of the ProWein trade fair. The data was collected as part of the GfK Wine Market Analysis, which the DWI commissions each year from the market consulting specialists.
Read moreAverage price of German wine exports at a record high
Last year, consumers abroad spent on average more for German wine than ever before. As the German Wine Institute (DWI) reports, the average price for a litre of exported wine in 2018 rose by 15 cents to 3,04 € (prime cost), breaking for the first time the three euro mark. In comparison with the year 2002, for example, it has exactly doubled.
Read moreJancis Robinsons German Tasting in Shanghai
On the occasion of the China Wine Summit 2019 - organised by TasteSpirit - Riesling Fellow and Master of Wine Jancis Robinson ran a master class "Decode top terroir of German Riesling and Pinot Noir" on 23rd February in Shanghai.
Read moreGerman and Bordeaux wines: A first promising cooperation in the USA
Under the slogan "Clink Different", the Bordeaux wine council Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) and the German Wine Institute (DWI) will launch the first ever joint promotion of their wines in the United States in March 2019.
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