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This year, for the second time, the German Wine Institute (DWI) has awarded a special prize for the best bouquet wines of the year. A jury of experts selected the best wines from the Scheurebe, Sauvignon Blanc, Gewürztraminer and Muskateller varieties, which were rated "very good" at the 2017 DLG Federal Wine Awards.

In the Scheurebe category, the Palatinate winery August Ziegler from Maikammer received first prize for its 2016 Scheurebe Kabinett trocken from the Gimmeldinger Meerspinne site. The Ernst Bretz winery from Bechtolsheim in Rheinhessen presented the best wine of this trendy grape variety with its 2016 Sauvignon blanc quality wine dry from the Bechtolsheimer Petersberg. The award for the best Gewürztraminer in the competition went to Baden to Badischer Winzerkeller in Breisach. Here, the jury was convinced by the 2015 Gewürztraminer quality wine from the Oberschopfheimer Kronenbühl site. The 2016 Muskateller from the Rhodter Klosterpfad vineyard of the Graf von Weyher winery from Weyher in the Palatinate was the winner in the Muskateller category. The certificates were presented to the winners by the German Wine Queen Lena Endesfelder on 31 August in Mainz.

"Buket wines have been in vogue again for several years. This is also shown by a significant increase in the quality-tested wine volumes from the four award-winning grape varieties last year. In Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg and Franconia, where more than 90 per cent of these varieties grow, they increased by eleven per cent to around 15 million litres compared to 2015. Compared to 2011, the increase even amounts to 65 percent," explained DWI managing director Monika Reule at the award ceremony.

"With a share of two percent of all quality-tested wines, German producers are in a niche market with bouquet wines, but they can also appeal to new target groups, such as younger consumers. The aroma-intensive wines are also interesting for export, as we are told, for example, from the USA, the Netherlands or Great Britain," said Reule.

Last year, the supply of bouquet wines grew most strongly in the Gewürztraminer variety, with around 700,000 litres. But the litre increases in the quality wine statistics for Muskateller, Sauvignon Blanc and Scheurebe also reached six figures. With a stable 1,400 hectares, Scheurebe is the most important of the four awarded bouquet varieties in Germany, followed by Gewürztraminer with 965 hectares (+3%), Sauvignon Blanc with 956 hectares (+7%) and Yellow and Red Muscat.

This year, for the second time, the German Wine Institute (DWI) awarded a special prize for the best bouquet wines of the year. A jury of experts selected the best wines from the Scheurebe, Sauvignon Blanc, Gewürztraminer and Muskateller varieties, which were rated "very good" at the 2017 DLG Federal Wine Awards.

In the Scheurebe category, the Palatinate winery August Ziegler from Maikammer received first prize for its 2016 Scheurebe Kabinett trocken from the Gimmeldinger Meerspinne site. The Ernst Bretz winery from Bechtolsheim in Rheinhessen presented the best wine of this trendy grape variety with its 2016 Sauvignon blanc quality wine dry from the Bechtolsheimer Petersberg. The award for the best Gewürztraminer in the competition went to Baden to Badischer Winzerkeller in Breisach. Here, the jury was convinced by the 2015 Gewürztraminer quality wine from the Oberschopfheimer Kronenbühl site. The 2016 Muskateller from the Rhodter Klosterpfad vineyard of the Graf von Weyher winery from Weyher in the Palatinate was the winner in the Muskateller category. The certificates were presented to the winners by the German Wine Queen Lena Endesfelder on 31 August in Mainz.

"Buket wines have been in vogue again for several years. This is also shown by a significant increase in the quality-tested wine volumes from the four award-winning grape varieties last year. In Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg and Franconia, where more than 90 per cent of these varieties grow, they increased by eleven per cent to around 15 million litres compared to 2015. Compared to 2011, the increase even amounts to 65 percent," explained DWI managing director Monika Reule at the award ceremony.

"With a share of two percent of all quality-tested wines, German producers are in a niche market with bouquet wines, but they can also appeal to new target groups, such as younger consumers. The aroma-intensive wines are also interesting for export, as we are told, for example, from the USA, the Netherlands or Great Britain," said Reule.

Last year, the range of bouquet wines grew most strongly in the Gewürztraminer variety, with around 700,000 litres. But the litre increases in the quality wine statistics for Muskateller, Sauvignon Blanc and Scheurebe also reached six figures. With a stable 1,400 hectares under cultivation, Scheurebe is the most important of the four excellent bouquet varieties in Germany, followed by Gewürztraminer with 965 hectares (+3%), Sauvignon Blanc with 956 hectares (+7%) and Yellow and Red Muscat, which together account for 354 hectares under vine (+11%).

(uka / Photo: German Wine Institute)

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