West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer once said that there are three kinds of Germans--the wine drinkers of the west, the beer drinkers of the south and the schnapps drinkers of the north and east. He said that only the wine drinkers (like himself) were sober enough to run the country.
“A true German can’t stand the French, but their wine he gladly drinks.”
— Goethe’s “Faust”