History of German Red Wine Making

Germany is one of the most well-known wine making countries of European regions. Germany produces some of the world’s best wines. It has a cool climate and fine wine regions in the world. so even though their red grape crops tend to be very low yielding and expensive to grow, these best quality grapes are used in red wine making. German wine is primarily produced on the west and east side of the Rhine River. Germany has a history of red wine making that dates back to 100 B.C. when ancient Romans, who conquered the region, began producing wines on local soil. They always focus on the quality of grapes used, and how wines are bottled.

Germany is primarily famous for white wine, the production of red wine is stared in the early 1990s, initially, the red wine was prepared only for fuelled domestic demand, For the red wines, Spätburgunder, the local name for Pinot noir, is in the primary variety. Red winemaking had been very hard in Germany’s climate, and in the past was usually light colored, closer to rose. However recently there has been greatly increased demand and darker, richer red wines are produced from the best variety of grapes.

Principal varieties of Red Wine grapes

There are 13 main regions in Germany for red wine production. Red wine grapes varieties account for 37% of the plantations in Germany. There are some varieties of grapes used for German red wine are given below

•           Spatburgunder (Pinot noirj}

•           Dornfelder

•           Portugieser

•           Trollinger

•           Schwarzriesling (Pinot Meunier}

•           Lemberger (Blaufrankischj

•           Dunkelfelder

•           Heroldrebe

•           Domina

The most popular German red wine is prepared with Pinot noir, or Spatburgunder grapes, these grapes are grown on heavy loamy and limy soils. This nutritiously dense soil helps to cultivate a larger and juicier grape for best red wine. All of these things mean that a good bottle of expertly-crafted German Red Wine which makes German red wine so unique.