German wine

Production is about one-tenth of France, about 3% of world production. About 85% of white wine, the remaining 15% is rose wine, red wine and sparkling wine. German white wine with fragrant fresh fruit and sweet, low alcohol. Especially for people not to drink and just beginners. Different wines have their own characteristics.
Germany not only world-famous beer, wine jars are the world occupy a certain position. German wine growing area of ​​about 10 million hectares, annual production of about one million liters of wine to white wine, accounting for about 87% of total output, the type is very rich, from the general type of semi-sweet light sweet white wine to a strong run of your garden rot wine has, in addition to a unique method for making ice wine.
Well-known areas: mainly the Rhine and its tributaries Mossel River. Mossel wine bottle is green, and Rhine wine bottle is brown. Rhine wine taste more rich.
German wine regions are located in 47 to 52 degrees latitude, is the world's most northern wine region constraints, although growing conditions are poor, but, with the unique local customs and Germans superior brewing technology, brewing a comparable France's top wines, wine became a model for cold regions.
Grape growing areas in Germany
German wine is characterized first of all from the unique origin and climate conditions. Most of the grapes grown here in the valley, south of Constantine from the lake along the Rhine and its tributaries, north of Mitte Bonn Rhine, the West region from the French border to the east of the Elbe. All German wines is divided into thirteen specific grape-growing areas, such as Moze - Saar - Lu Wen, Rheingau, Rhine-Hesse, Ulrich vine Fort, Baden, Fildes and so on. Each has their own specialty areas. General wine production in northern light and delicious, fruity fragrance, aromatic fragrance, elegant and refined, and fresh acid. The wine is produced in southern successful full, fruity attractive, sometimes with more flavor yet mild staunch moderate acidity. Most commonly seen in the German wine from the Mosel River and Rhein River four main areas, Mosel-Saar-Rewur, Rheingau, Rheinhessen, Pfalz
Special Focus: German Wine has two characteristics that the cold climate in order to allow grapes to fully mature, usually harvested late, thereby causing the wine has a fresh and lively acidity, and sometimes to make sugar work ; Another feature is the harvest of grapes is usually reserved for one-tenth of non-fermented grape juice made directly stored in the high-pressure tank until bottling and then mixed with the juice, do so out of the wine with an elegant fruit flavor and high alcohol concentration is usually not very suitable for human consumption begun to taste the wine. Germany is the home of Riesling, this grape wine brewing wine fragrance, taste fresh, and today has become an elegant wine with rich features synonymous.