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Article: THE RISE OF RIESLING `NOBLE GRAPE' HAS GERMAN WINES BACK IN FAVOR INTHE UNITED STATES.(Daybreak)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2000
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You could blame Adolf Hitler for German wine's image problems.
Or it might have been the Rhine wine craze of the 1970s, when diet experts convinced millions of Americans, mostly women, to drink the vinegary swill-in-a-jug because it had the lowest number of calories of any alcohol.
Other German whites had the opposite problem: They were as sweet as icing on a wedding cake.
German wines may also have languished on liquor store shelves because their labels were riddled with thunderously guttural Teutonic words like erzeugerabfullung.
Wine producers in neighboring Austria had even harder times as a result of a 1985 scandal: big producers were adding anti-freeze ...