German for Great Wine? The Word is Riesling. Why oenophiles are increasingly buying up rieslings from Germany. By Jay McInerney Published: Feb 26, 2021. Gregg Segal // Getty Images.

German wines are fiercely championed by wine professionals and collectors but they’ve often struggled to gain wider traction in the US market. Much of the challenge, ...

If you’re wondering what spurred me into this narrative of German Riesling, I did it because 1.) recreational crabbing season in Hood Canal will be announced this month for July and August; 2.) ...

Riesling is a cold-hardy, German grape from the northern most vineyards in Europe. It is also significantly planted in Washington, Alsace, Austria, Finger Lakes, Oregon, South Africa and Australia.

Whether you prefer Jägermeister or Riesling, prepare to say 'prost' all day long as you explore the taverns and wine regions ...

Courtesy of ©VDP by Peter Bender. Germany’s most exclusive wine club . One of the VDP’s newest members, added in January 2025, Weingut Dr. Hermann is a Riesling-focused estate in the Mosel ...

German wines are probably the most misunderstood in the United States. Part of this is the fault of German winemakers, on two fronts. They have stubbornly refused to adapt their intimidating ...

The wines are not all sweet and they’re not all riesling (or white wine, for that matter). While you can spend a lot of money (usually on riesling), a lot of truly great German wines come in ...

The U.S. is also the biggest export market for German wines, with the sector earning around 63 million euros there, about a sixth of total export sales, data from the German Wine Association showed.

The only German member of Primum Familiae Vini (First Families of Wine), Egon Müller has been making wine since 1797 and owns a very large plot in the famous Mosel vineyard called Scharzhofberg.