GERMAN ICE WINE

Germany’s harvest of ice wine -
a dessert wine produced from grapes that have frozen while still on the vine - has failed for the first time because the winter has been too warm.

None of Germany’s 13 wine-growing regions had the necessary temperatures of -7C to produce the wine in 2019.

2019 was the second-warmest year on record globally, according to the US National Oceans and Air Administration.

The amount of ice wine produced has been dropping in recent years.

“The 2019 vintage will go down in history here in Germany as the first year in which the ice harvest has failed nationwide,” the German Wine Institute (DWI) said in a statement.

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