Mainz, town of the German wine

Mainz, town of the German wine
Mainz is one of the centers of the German wine economy as a center for wine trade and the seat of the wine minister. Due to the importance of the wine industry for the federal state, Rhineland-Palatinate is the only state to have a wine minister in his capital city. Many wine traders work in the town. The sparkling wine producer Kupferberg produces in Mainz-Hechtsheim and even Henkell - now located on the other side of the river Rhine - had been founded once in Mainz.
Mainz had been a wine growing region since Roman times and the image of the wine town Mainz is fostered by the tourist center. The Haus des Deutschen Weines (English: House of the German Wine), is located in beside the theater. It is the seat of the German Wine Academy, the German Wine Institute (DWI) and the German Wine Fund (DWF). The Mainzer Weinmarkt (wine market) is one of the great wine fairs in Germany.
Johann-Joseph Krug, founder of France's famous Krug champagne house in 1843, was born in Mainz in 1800.