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...benign rays on Germany's Rhine and Moselle vineyards. The head of the Wurzburg Wine Producers Association said: "I would not even be surprised if my grandchildren or their children called this wine the wine of the millennium." Said a less historically minded producer: "This will be real saufwein (boozing wine)." The Germans rate wine quality by the degree of sugar content in the grapes before fermentation. By this standard, the predicted sugar content of the 1959 harvest will make German wines, like those of France, the best produced so far in this century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Votre Sant | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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