Liebfraumilch (leeb-frao-milsh)
One of the best known German wines. The name means "Blessed Mother's Milk." Prior to the enactment of the German wine laws in 1971 the term was used to mean almost any German wine from the Rhine region.
Liebfraumilch Is a German semi-sweet white wine. 'Liebfrauwine' was sometimes used as a generic term in Australia to describe a slightly sweet wine. Leo Buring produced a wine called Liebfrauwein.
Liebfraumilch: A blended German white, semisweet and fairly neutral, which accounts for up to 50% of all German wine exports.
Liebfraumilch is not a wine that you will find in Germany, yet this is her biggest export, with millions of bottles of the Milk of Our Lady finding their way into the UK and US markets.
This is as much because of its tarnished reputation due to Liebfraumilch and the array of wanna-be Rieslings which have arrogated the good name of Rhine Riesling (Olasz, Welsch, Laski, Riesling Italico) as for the steely acidity which generally makes ...
This was due in part to the immense popularity of cheap, low quality, medium-sweet German wines such as Liebfraumilch and Piesporter.
Sixty percent of the wine exported from Germany is Liebfraumilch, a sweet, mass-produced wine.
These facts meant that Müller-Thurgau provided an economical way to cheaply produce large amounts of medium sweet German wines, such as Liebfraumilch and Piesporter, which were quite popular up until the 1980s.
 See also: Grape, White, Wine, Sweet, Region
  
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