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In order to raise the awareness of Japanese consumers to Germany as the "coolest" wine country, the German Wine Institute invited Japanese GQ magazine's editorial staff on a journey through the German wine-growing regions in the middle of September 2018.

Wines of Germany's worldwide "Riesling & Co" campaigns are a popular measure for the wine trade and gastronomy in the international markets. It draws wine connoisseurs' attention to the outstanding qualities of German wines. In 2019 the series of global German wine events commence in Tokyo, Japan under the title "German Wine Weeks" and last for...

The German Wine Institute (DWI) will be presenting a fascinating selection of wines from German winegrowing regions at this year's Vinexpo in Bordeaux (13-16 May 2019). Ten German producers and their wines will receive a star turn at the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture's joint Vinexpo stand (hall 1, stand AB270), as well as at various...

In the tasting sessions for this year's Concours des Grands Vins Blancs du Monde in Strasbourg, German winemakers were particularly successful with their Rieslings, but also with white Pinot varieties and received a total of 23 gold medals, 13 for Riesling, four for Pinot Blanc, two each for Pinot Gris and Gewürztraminer and one gold award each for...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

For the first time since 1999, German consumers purchased more white wine than red this past year.