German wine exports [to US] rise

[Kellanved]

OPPENHEIM - German wine exports in the past business year rose 5.6 percent to EUR 377 million despite a 10 percent drop in sales to Britain, traditionally the biggest customer, the industry said Wednesday.

The Deutsche Weininstitut (DWI) in Oppenheim said that a 36 percent surge in German wine exports to the United States, the second biggest customer, helped to account for the overall rise in the April 2002 through March 2003 period.
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http://www.expatica.com/germany.asp?pad=190,205,&item_id=32663



Strange, I would have expected a different development.
I thought European wines were less requested in the US. :shrug:

[Classical_Liberal]

1. 2/3 of the America people thought the freedom fry business was

lunacy. I am not surprised there is a backlash.

[Aristus]

2. Keep in mind, if people drink wine, they are naturally more intelligent,

sophisticated, and discerning than your average cheese-dog and beer quaffing, professional wresting watching Freeper who wanted the boycott to begin with. Yes, this is snobbery. I don't care.

[mmm]

3. Replacing French wine, I suspect

Germany produces far more whites than reds.
Many of those are cloyingly sweet and NONE are in the wonderful
French terroir style.
(Great time to stock up on French wine as
prices are still down.)

[Kellanved]

4. I thought the Californian Wines were doing that

German wine producers stopped making the sweet ones some time ago. The few sweet wines are export-only (to the UK and the Scandinavian countries AFAIR).

I drink German wine quite often; there are some decent, simple reds and quite a few good whites made here; especially if you want a wine with a low alcohol content.
The fact remains: your average French wine can run circles around a German one.

[TheBigGuy]

9. Ive had some real sweet German wine recently..

...I think it was from Rhinehessen.

But that was not typical. It seems the most popular German wines in my area are those from the Mosel-Saar-Ruher region, and the Nahe. Thats what we see alot of in stores around here.

[eyesroll]

5. Actually, 2001 was a beautiful German Riesling vintage

and a lot of those are quite dry.

They're actually cellerable (if that's a word) -- I had 10-to-25 -year-old Rieslings and Gewurstraminers and Gruner Veltliners (I can't spell German) at a wine class once, and they were spectacular.

[twilight]

6. at least they aren't GM'd!

I wonder how many of the wines being made/sold here in the USA are genetically modified. At least we know the ones from Germany (and all other parts of the UK) are NOT!

:kick:

[newyawker99]

7. Hi mmm!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Monaco]

10. Excuse me

for being pedantic, but Gruener Veltliner is an Austrian, not German, wine. The increase in imports might also be do, in part, to the weakness of the dollar, which makes them cheaper here than they usually are.

[inthecorneroverhere]

12. currency

The weakness of the dollar makes California wines cheaper in Germany, while German and French wines are more expensive in the USA.

Now, if only Treasury Secty. John Snow-job would quit talking down the U.S. dollar, we could import some wonderful French wines and German Rieslings at good prices!

There is already a glut of California wines on the market, to the point where some are becoming very cheap.

[TheBigGuy]

8. I've been seeing some Franken wine here.

.....pretty rare, but occasionally a 'bocksbeutel' shows up. I really like this wine..its a very dry white wine.

Unfortunaly "Frankfurter Appelwoi" (hard cider) is pretty hard to find.

[Dirk39]

11. Hello Kellanved!

On sunday, I watched the "Weltspiegel" (world mirror), one of the best german TV-magazines, and they brought a report, stating that the french sell about 25% less to the USA.
I feel sorry for this, although I like our wine too (I mostly prefer spanish wine anyway). If some Bushies don't drink french wine anymore, I really don't want them to drink our wine instead.

The french put so much effort into this, they even don't sell their good wines to the USA anyway, they make the export-wine different to give it the vanilla-fruit-wood taste, fast-food spoiled americans like (Pssst!).
I'm not too serious about the last remark, but a french wine-builder told this...
Greetings from Germany with a Côte du Rhône in my hands,
Dirk