Beyond the frost line – Germany's 2024 VDP wines
Wednesday 18 June 2025
• 6 min read
Part one of a two-part review of this memorable vintage. Today, the Nahe, Franken, the Mosel, Saale-Unstrut, Sachsen and the Ahr. Come back tomorrow for part two. Above, the main hall at this year's Mainzer Weinbörse 2025 (© VDP by Peter Bender).
When we left off at this time last year, VDP growers across Germany were still reeling from a bitter cold snap that had arrived just prior to the annual Mainzer Weinbörse. Germany’s most important annual trade fair for VDP wines, transformed, in essence, into an informal damage-assessment centre as reports rolled in of the devastating ‘advective’ frost...
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