The Invisible Crisis in Germany's Wine Industry

Two-thirds of independent German wine producers are in trouble, according to industry experts. What brought on this crisis, and how are wineries adapting to stay afloat?

March 2025

All The Invisible Crisis in Germany's Wine Industry What It Means to "Be VDP" Sprechen Sie Spätburgunder? Past Forward Rethinking Karthäuserhof The Butterfly Effect Field Studies: Deirdre Heekin Expands Her Exploration of Vermont Terroir The Bees Ries Germany Is Driving the Quality Revolution for Non-Alcoholic Wine Is Styria About to Have a Breakout Moment in the U.S.? Schwarze Birne The Insider's Guide to Württemberg Riesling The Power of Data-Driven Decision-Making in the Wine Industry The State of Biodynamics in New York Wine Book Review: "Mosel Wine" Inside the Creative Cosmos of Skinny Pablo West Coast Riesling Revival A New Role for Immigrants in the Vineyards of South Tyrol Understanding Biodynamics Three Ways Alto Adige’s Burgeoning Biodynamic Movement Fair Labor Practices Enter the Natural Wine Conversation A Suitcase Winery Unpacks on New Ground How Freistil Reframes South Tyrol In the Vinschgau: Small Growers, New Heights The New Magnetism of "Alt" Mosel German Wine's Radical Love Machine Is U.S. Policy Pushing German Wine Producers Away? Oracles of the Mosel Chasing Styria's Liquid Gold Weinbau Jutta Ambrositsch and the Wine Culture of Vienna Hiking and Drinking in Alto Adige Disrupting German Wine 2naturkinder's New Traditions in Franconian Wine Through a Glass Darkly: Zweigelt? The Living Wines of Weingut Heinrich Treasures of Austria’s Thermenregion The Mountain Wines of Helmut Dolde Weingut Roterfaden Jochen Beurer Reimagines the Future of Württemberg Wine Vineyards of Defiance On Cultivating a “Diva” Pfalz First Württemberg Wine Guide Moritz Haidle Nathan Kendall

The Invisible Crisis in Germany's Wine Industry What It Means to "Be VDP" Sprechen Sie Spätburgunder? Past Forward Rethinking Karthäuserhof The Butterfly Effect Field Studies: Deirdre Heekin Expands Her Exploration of Vermont Terroir The Bees Ries Germany Is Driving the Quality Revolution for Non-Alcoholic Wine Is Styria About to Have a Breakout Moment in the U.S.? Schwarze Birne The Insider's Guide to Württemberg Riesling The Power of Data-Driven Decision-Making in the Wine Industry The State of Biodynamics in New York Wine Book Review: "Mosel Wine" Inside the Creative Cosmos of Skinny Pablo West Coast Riesling Revival A New Role for Immigrants in the Vineyards of South Tyrol Understanding Biodynamics Three Ways Alto Adige’s Burgeoning Biodynamic Movement Fair Labor Practices Enter the Natural Wine Conversation A Suitcase Winery Unpacks on New Ground How Freistil Reframes South Tyrol In the Vinschgau: Small Growers, New Heights The New Magnetism of "Alt" Mosel German Wine's Radical Love Machine Is U.S. Policy Pushing German Wine Producers Away? Oracles of the Mosel Chasing Styria's Liquid Gold Weinbau Jutta Ambrositsch and the Wine Culture of Vienna Hiking and Drinking in Alto Adige Disrupting German Wine 2naturkinder's New Traditions in Franconian Wine Through a Glass Darkly: Zweigelt? The Living Wines of Weingut Heinrich Treasures of Austria’s Thermenregion The Mountain Wines of Helmut Dolde Weingut Roterfaden Jochen Beurer Reimagines the Future of Württemberg Wine Vineyards of Defiance On Cultivating a “Diva” Pfalz First Württemberg Wine Guide Moritz Haidle Nathan Kendall