Trockenbeerenauslese, sometimes known as TBA, the highest must weight prädikat defined by Austrian and german wine law. Trockenbeeren refers to grapes (Beeren) shrivelled on the vine, typically under

Rheingau for generations the most economically successful wine region in germany and still one of its most famous abroad. The Church and nobility provided the discipline and organization necessary for

sulfur dioxide or SO2, formed when elemental sulfur is burned in air, is a colourless, pungent, choking gas and is the chemical compound most widely used by the winemaker, principally as a preservativ

The overwhelming majority of German wine is officially qualitätswein. A portion of this, the amount varying according to quality of vintage and subject to long-term labelling trends, is bottled unchap