Bigger Than Your Head

Bigger Than Your Head

Wine of the Day, No. 65

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Fredric Koeppel
Sep 30, 2015
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As with so many estates in European wine regions, Weingut Leitz has an interesting story. Though official records place the Leitz family in the winemaking industry of the Rheingau as far back as 1744, it wasn't until the early 1960s that Josef Leitz rebuilt a

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winery damaged by Allied bombing near the end of World War II. His grandson, Johannes Leitz, too…

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