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The World's Most Northern Vineyard

Posted: Jun 17, 2009 10:09am ET

File this under global warming: Balthasar Ress , the well-known estate in Germany’s Rheingau region, recently planted a vineyard at 55 degrees latitude on the island of Sylt, in the North Sea. Just to get our bearings, this is as far north in Germany as one can go, almost at the border of Denmark.

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