Original method: German wine producers are returning to the steep, rocky slopes of the Mosel river Credit: Photo: CHRISTOPHER ARNOLDI There are worse places to be on a late summer’s afternoon ...

The wines from here (alongside those from the Mosel) were the ones that excited Schoonmaker and other wine connoisseurs back in the mid-20th century: “There are other sections of this ...

<p>A half century ago, Americans loved German wines. For years they consumed millions of bottles of white German wines with names like Blue Nun, Black Tower and Zeller Schwarze Katz. But as times ...

Wines of Mosel, If you like German Riesling then the four regions of Middle and Lower Mosel, Saar and Ruwer along the Mosel River system is your wine Mecca. The great thing about Mosel (formerly ...

<p>A half century ago, Americans loved German wines. For years they consumed millions of bottles of white German wines with names like Blue Nun, Black Tower and Zeller Schwarze Katz. But as times ...

The Mosel River (Moselle in France) flows over 300 miles from the Vosges Mountains in eastern France to Germany’s Rhine River. Meandering through northeastern France, it heads north to the ...

German wines suffer from only one thing, a host of almost unpronounceable words on their labels, unless you speak German. The unfortunate part is that you must know what these lip contorting words … ...

The 1991 vintage of German wines will never be famous for an abundance of highly prized sweet wines, but it produced very fine wines in the qualitatswein (QbA), kabinett and spatlese ...

German wines suffer from only one thing, a host of almost unpronounceable words on their labels, unless you speak German. The unfortunate part is that you must know what these lip-contorting words ...

Indecipherable gothic script, unprounceable names, complicated labels and a fear of sweet wines have driven wine lovers away from German wines to the simply labelled New World ones.

True or false: German wines are a hard sell in the U.S. because the Gothic type and multisyllabic names on the labels are hard to decipher. Answer: Absolutely true. Those labels intimidate most of ...