A reader’s question from a historian friend in Berlin: At the beginning of the 1780s King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia bought up land in Potsdam’s New Garden for wine growing. Does the area around Berlin and Brandenburg really have the conditions necessary for good wine growing? Are there vineyards in Berlin/Brandenburg? yes, a fewContinueContinue reading “James asks: Does Berlin/Brandenburg have the conditions necessary for good wine growing?”
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Where to buy wine in Berlin?
Wine is available everywhere in Germany. Every supermarket, chemist, corner store sells the stuff. Heck, even the driving school in Friedrichshain doubled as a fine wine shop. But there is certainly a lot of bulk rubbish that is generally the source of non-wine people saying they don’t like the taste of it. For some consistentContinueContinue reading “Where to buy wine in Berlin?”