Wine Capital Mainz 2025
Thursday 3 July 2025
• 8 min read
Highlights from the Sekt show, VinVin and the Biodynamic Wine Fair in Rheinhessen’s central city. In the image above we are instructed to 'Always follow the bubbles' into the Sektbörse 2025.
It was the summer of 1994 when I first set eyes on Mainz, Germany, and my visit coincided with an unprecedented heatwave. Woefully unprepared with only three words – bitte, Bier, wunderbar – and a suitcase of far-too-warm clothes, it took a while for me to add the word Wein to my vocabulary.
When I finally did, it came as a result of the many Weinstuben I...
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