Straw wine from the Mosel region

Lars Carlberg from The Mosel Wine Merchant writes on his blog that the Weingut Stein finally received permission from the EU to make straw wine in the Mosel region, which, for whatever reason, had been forbidden by the German wine law. It took Ulli Stein seven years until the EU court in Brussels finally overruled Germany's bureaucracy and confirmed that the production of wine from grapes dried on straw mats is as natural in the Mosel as it is in France (vin de paille) or Austria (Strohwein). Stein will offer a sweet and dry versions of the straw wine, which he will call "Striehween", the local Moselle-Franconian dialect for the word Strohwein, which has been patented by Austria. 2008 will most likely be the first vintage.

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