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Germany’s Wine Revolution Is Just Getting Started

MORE THAN RIESLING

The Mosel region once produced some of Europe’s premier wine. But vine disease, war, and bad laws changed all that. Now a new crop of vintners is trying to bring the area back.

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The world’s most ethereal wines are produced in a small region in northwestern Germany, where the Mosel River flows northward in tight hairpin curves beneath steep fractured-slate hillsides dotted with century-old Riesling vines.

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