KNOLL'S OPINION

Ice wine: Control, protection, or criminalisation?

GERMANY (Würzburg) - Soon the vintage of the 2012 wine in South Africa and other countries of the southern hemisphere begins. At the same time, however, at the beginning of February, German vintners are still busy to harvest the last 2011 grapes. How does this work? With late ice wine. This is what the Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture, Food, Viticulture and Forests of the Rhineland Palatinate concerned with; apparently, the ministry responsible is something confused or frozen in that field.

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Comment: Away with VDP?

GERMANY (Würzburg) - Rudolf Knoll’s comment to the article: New New VDP classification and scores of loop holes - labors are not over yet.

German wine growers bring with the early ice-wine harvest an end to the season 2010

GERMANY (Wine-growing-regions) - As you were able to read in the first news posts of the German Wine Institute, "some vintners" were taking advantage of the moment to make their famous Eiswein. As of December 6, there...

Knoll's opinion: Only one small step....

GERMANY (Mainz) – The fact that the lawsuit of a Moselle-vintager against the wine fund payments was dismissed by the administrative court in Koblenz, should not cause too many positive emotions among the German...

Knoll’s Commentary: The VDP is undergoing change

GERMANY (Gau-Algesheim) – By admitting 3 new wine estates, the VDP now has 196 members. And that in spite the fact that 73 estates have left the association in the last 20 years. Often, they did not go by choice...

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