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A Mosel Riesling is the first white wine to win the Shanghai Wine100 Challenge. This premiere might bring China’s red wine obsession to an end, The Drinks Business suggests in its’ recent online issue.

In it's latest online-issue Forbes business magazine comments on "Positive Marketing from Wines of Germany". Contributor to the article is wine and media expert Thomas Pellechia who see's a "buzz" landslide in favor of German wines.

Wines of Germany jointly with the respective regional authorities developed a digital map of Germany's wine growing regions. The map features the individual vineyard sites "Einzellagen" of ten German wine growing regions, which can be viewed down to the level of each parcel.

Following a period of steady growth until 2006, the vineyard area of red grapes in Germany has since recorded a slight downward trend. As the German Wine Institute (DWI) announced on the basis of figures from the Federal Statistical Office, in the period up to 2015 the area devoted to white grapes rose again by approximately 2,700 ha to 67,074 ha.

They are under 35 years of age and ambassadors of Germany´s modern, high-quality and dynamic wine production: The members of Generation Riesling, the young growers´ movement that is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year! "Ten years young" is the motto of the big birthday party in Frankfurt on 13 June 2016.

Famed chef Günter Seeger recently opened up his new New York eatery. In his restaurant located in Manhatten's West Village, he celebrates his passion for German wines and commits himself to be a game-changer for German wine in "Big Apple", as he stated in a recent interview by MW Anne Krebiehl from Wine Ethusiast Magazine.

The Riesling Fellowship was proud to be joined last night by top German Riesling producers and members of the Asian trade for a gala dinner at Renaissance Harbour View Hotel in Hong Kong. The evening, organised on the occasion of the German pavilion at Vinexpo Asia Pacific 2016 saw the announcement of five new members to the Riesling Fellowship.

The first ever 'German Wine Academy' out of Germany took place in Vancouver, Canada. The sales information seminar named 'Taste the New Perfect Pairings' was organised by Wines of Germany (DWI) and the British Columbia Liquorboard.

In the tenth year since its founding, the Generation Riesling initiative of the German Wine Institute (DWI, Wines of Germany) has grown to 500 young players with responsible positions in the wine industry. On 21 April 2016, DWI managing director Monika Reule welcomed its 500th member, the young Wuerttemberg vintner Benjamin Schuetz from "WeinGut...

Wines of Germany USA launched its new image campaign, "Taste the New," in Los Angeles with Matthew Kaner of Bar Covell and Augustine Wine Bar, Food & Wine magazine’s Sommelier of the Year (2013).