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At this year's Pinot Noir-Symposium on the 11th and 12th of March 2017 50 highly regarded German and international wine producers will present more than 200 top-flight Pinot Noir wines.

Last night’s Riesling Fellowship saw top German wine producers and members of the UK and international trade gather at Vintners’ Hall in London for a gala dinner to honour four new Riesling Fellows. This year’s event focused on Riesling Sekt, celebrating the quality renaissance that has been driven by German Sekt producers in recent years.

Riesling and Pinot Noir (Spätburgunder) are in the Top5 grape varieties regarding awareness, consumption and conversion amongst all Chinese urban upper-middle class wine drinkers. According to a 'wine intelligence' study 44 percent of this group are aware of Germany as a wine-producing country.

The current icewine-season 2016/17 turned out to be very successful for Germany. Deeply frozen grapes were being harvested starting november 21st 2016 in Saxony. After insular reports from that region most of the other 12 wine growing regions brought in their icewine crop the following weeks in december.

Wines of Germany have decided to clarify the Danes’ wine preferences. The study shows large differences in habits between regions and age groups. The first place of popularity of white wines holds Riesling, while concerning red wines the Danish population ranks Pinot Noir among the top 3 most preferred grape varieties.

A study of wine preferences among Danes made by Wines of Germany shows that the price is very important, when Danes go shopping for wine. The majority of Danes choose wines at a cost between 50 and 99 kroner (correlating 7 respectively 13 Euros), whether it is for a dinner party or an everyday wine.

“Wines of Germany” Sweden will come under new management from January 2017. Following a Europe-wide call for tenders by the German Wine Institute (DWI), the Ehrenberg Kommunikation agency, which has been in charge of the DWI representation in Denmark since the beginning of 2016, will now also take over the Swedish offices in Malmö and Stockholm.

Some 31 importers submitted a wide range of wines from 13 countries to take part in Singaporean 'The Peak Selections: Gourmet & Travel' Competition called "G top 100". Among these exquisite wines, the judges singled out six outstanding labels. "Red Wine of The Year" is Rudolf Furst Winery with Centgrafenberg Pinot Noir 2013.

After a terrific ending to a very labour-intensive and turbulent season, German producers are very satisfied with the quality of the crop. Find The German Wine Institute's (DWI) detailed report below (pdf). Fully ripe and very healthy grapes could be harvested across the country thanks to the perfect late summer weather.

"Germany is producing truly fine dry wines that tend to be much better partners for food than many white burgundy", says MW Jancis Robinson in her latest Financial Times wine cronique shortly before Christmas. She provides wine lovers worldwide with examples at the top of the tree and states that demand for those German wines has boosted.