After severe flooding hit the Ahr wine valley in Germany this summer, wineries were left with broken equipment and smashed bottles. Some bottles were covered in mud but the wine inside remained untouched. Those bottles — rebranded as flutwein or “flood wine” — are now being sold around the world to raise money for recovery efforts. Host Marco Werman has the details.
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