The chief commercial cities of this region handling wine are Stuttgart, Lichtenberg, Heilbronn and Weinsberg. Considerable wine is also produced in Baden, and especially about the towns of Mullheim, Badenweiler, Buhler-thal, Offenburg and Freiburg.

Large quantities of wine are also made in Alsace and Lorraine, though we usually think of these localities more as causes of war than as producers of wine. In Alsace the Riesling grape gives a wine of fine bouquet, and the Tokay grape makes a sweet, strong wine, richer in alcohol than the Riesling products. Metz is the chief city in this locality. In Lorraine red wines are chiefly made. They have a fine aroma and belong to the Burgundy type. In fact, they are not far from the Burgundy region of France. Some sparkling wines are also made in Lorraine.1 Fine varieties of red wine of the claret type are also produced there. Sparkling wines are not made in very large quantities in Germany, though the production in recent years has increased. They are made of the same grapes that produce the still wines. The production of sparkling wine has spread, especially in Alsace and Lorraine, in the last half century. The principal centers of production and commerce in these wines are Coblenz, Frankfurt am Main. Hockheim am Main, Kreuznach, Mainz, Neustadt in the Haardt, Rudesheim on the Rhine, Schierstein on the Rhine, and Wurzburg.

1 The wines of Alsace and Lorraine are now to be credited to France.