| Page Views: 992 Last Visit to Land Rheinland-Pfalz: October, 2006 | The main event - posh booze cruise by jo104 - last update: Feb 16, 2007 |
On Saturday we met up at Bonn station where we would take the Ahrtal train to Mayschoss, a very picturesque village and the start of our wine crusade.
The Ahr valley wines have earned the title "Red wine paradise", it is Germany's smallest wine regions with approximately 550 hectares of vineyards, but saying that it is the largest single area in Germany which cultivates grapes for red wine. Its climate is almost Meditteranean in feel getting on average 1500hrs of sunlight a year. You can understand this whist travelling through the region as the area is in a sheltered pocket. The variety of red wine grapes is Spatburgunder & Portugieser. |
|  | This first stop is where the "Rotweinwanderweg" or Red Wine Trail begins covering 35km through the valleys of Bad Bodendorf to Altenhar. At our first stop there was the option of taking the chairlift up to the Ditschardt mountains to get a lovely view of the valley, unfortunately it was a bit overcast so we decided to stick to the "Ahruferweg" Riverbank trail.
I could easily see why this area is popular with hikers, walkers and mountain bikers alike.
Our wine crusade took us to several festivals which were being held to celebrate the harvest. |
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angiebabe Thu Sep 27, 2007 23:19 UTC
another nice visit and wine stop, but how did you get on to anything else if VTers stopped to take photos of the 900 ruins!? | Tripack Tue Mar 13, 2007 20:23 UTC
You will become a wine expert with all these international wine tasting. Recently I just tried a Austrian red wine during my Tyrolian Safari ski. When are you coming to taste our Swiss local wine? | HORSCHECK Thu Mar 1, 2007 18:43 UTC
Jo, lovely little page of the Rheinland-Pfalz region. I hope you haven't drunken all wine yet. *winkygrin* | TheView Fri Feb 23, 2007 14:12 UTC
Thats a good idea ;-) I think I will try just that. Its allways so planning what to see "where is it" -"how long will it take to get there" ... ;-) |
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