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"Drink Pink!" would have been the motto at the German Wine Institute's (GWI) ProWein stand in 2020. Despite the fact that the next international wine fair in Düsseldorf has been postponed to March 21st to 23rd 2021, the spotlight will still shine on Germany's still and sparkling rosé wines all throughout 2020.

The 2019 vintage will go down in history here in Germany as the first vintage with only one single ice wine. Without making it known to the public before, the Zimmerle winery from Remstal in Württemberg announced on March 3, 2020, that they had harvested Riesling ice wine grapes with a must weight of 155 degrees Oechsle at minus eight degrees...

With the German Wine Day on february 11, 2020, the Moscow office of 'Wines of Germany' started this year's activities on the Russian market. In the LadogaRoom of the World Trade Center in Moscow, 24 exhibitors presented a total of 144 wines and sparkling wines from nine German growing regions.

At the spring tasting of the 26th Mundus Vini Grand International Wine Awards, 239 German wines were awarded a medal. Six German wines received the highest award for Grand Gold, 109 for Gold and 124 received a Silver medal.

At the 11th Grand International Wine Award MUNDUS VINI Biofach, the Palatinate winery Schwarztrauber from Neustadt took first place among German organic wine producers, as it had done in several previous competitions. 14 German organic wines received a gold medal and 21 a silver medal.

They drink pink and stand by it. Rosé is trendy and will be in the spotlight at The German Wine Institute's ProWein 2020 annual campaign. Earned?

From bone dry Riesling via Silvaner, Lemberger, Spätburgunder, Sekt, Natural Wine etc. all the way to Beerenauslese and Eiswein. The German wine stand in hall 7.1 H37 at Vinexpo Paris is a very busy place to be ...

"Is the Japanese wine market the export market of the future for the German wine industry?" With this question, the managing director of the German Wine Institute (DWI), Monika Reule, opened the 'DWI Forum Japan' in Mainz on February 6, 2020, which was launched due to a positive export trend to Japan.

The Guardian recommends the most scenic train journeys of Europe. For fans of German wine and fairytale castles it is the route along the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne across the Middle Rhine Valley.

On the 21st January, Charmaine Lall from Black Stallion Estate Winery in Napa, California and Patrik Sandberg from Systembolaget, Stockholm were both awarded a study trip as a guest of Wines of Germany by Nicky Forrest, Director of Wines of Germany UK.