Germany is the most northerly major wine region in the world. You can find the vineyards of the Rhine, Mosel Unstrut and Elbe. Although Germany as a wine region is not bigger than Bordeaux, the yield per hectare is higher. A few characteristics of German wines are, there is much less use of wood maturation and the alcohol in the wines is not so high. In more than one third of the vineyards, the Riesling and Müller-Thurgau is planted. For red wines, Spätburgunder or the Pinot Noir is the most pla... | more