German Wine
German wine is grown mainly in south west Germany. Like the
rest of Europe, German vines have their roots firmly embedded
in the days Rome dominated Europe and North Africa. Germany
is often seen as very cheap wine, but also german wines, arguable,
are the most exciting aromatically. Liebfraumilch is a typical
example of German wine; packed with very fruity flavours and
cheap, but actually a very acceptable wine with a powerful,
sweet aroma.
The Riesling grape being the choice of most German vineyards,
German wine is robust and is a great wine for youngsters to
take to parties as everyone is going to like it and few are
going to appreciate it. Because the Riesling grape is the most
popular, Germany is very well known for white, crisp wines,
but red wine production is steadily increasing into the 21st
century.
Like I stated before, Liebfraumilch and other German wines
are the favourite for teenage parties, and I confes that it
was infact a bottle of Liebfraumilch I always reached for when
heading for a mates party in my miss-spent youth and many a
bottle of Liebfraumilch has left me with a sore head the next
morning ;)
But it would be wrong for me to disregard German wines as there
are some very excellent wine produced there, but there are too
few German wineries targeting to more expensive end of the wine
market.
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