In October the grape harvest reaches its high point in Germany. We look around a region that turns into a wine-lover’s delight at this time of year: the German Wine Route in Rheinland-Pfalz, the Rhineland Palatinate.
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Vineyards as far as the eye can see they nestled on the edges of the Palatinate forest facing the Sun the German cyclists wine route runs right through the vineyards it combines nature culture and enjoyment on a hundred kilometer route from estate to estate including stop offs
At MIT now we just have to make sure we find this been in the wine route where we can cycle into the vineyards or Palatinate is a region with a very distinct local cuisine every tiny village offers wineries and traditional Inns Dittus Heim has a very special reputation the data tomahawk hotel and
Restaurant is centrally located right on the market square it’s been known internationally ever since former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl invited political guests here the regional taste for hearty sausage and meat dishes is legendary here they’re served with a modern twist as a solution water Zenon bounce region
Has become a bit more refined especially during the past 15 years we have a lot of excellent restaurants here in the files and it’s always worth making the trip because of the food people from here used to go to Alsace to eat now people from there come to eat here our
Next stop is Humber nowhere else descends the region’s turbulent history better than here high above the village Humber castle built in the 11th century it is belonged to Bavaria and to France and was destroyed and rebuilt several times it’s being an imperial castle Bishop’s residence archive and ruin nowadays it
Houses a museum that documents an important chapter in German history the Humber Festival on May the 27th for 1832 thirty thousand people marched to the castle in a protest procession they demanded basic rights freedom and peace among nations more than 100 years later in 1949 this became the basis for West
Germany’s Constitution after eight months of work the parliamentary Council in bond has passed the basic law for the new federal republic of germany we follow the German wine route south these vines are valuable because of their extreme rarity their more than 400 years old and still supply grapes they belong
To the village of halt under Heath Berg most villages in the floods were laid waste in the 17th century during the War of the Palatine succession what undelete burg escaped harm so this winemaking village is a gem its buildings are up to 400 years old we stopped to look at Ludwig’s her villa
When that first still belonged to Bavaria King Ludwig the first had a summer residence built here it rises above the vineyards like a gallery with a panoramic view it’s like a touch of Tuscany in Germany and that’s what King Ludwig wanted he called the scenery the most beautiful
Square mile in his realm the rooms also exude an easygoing Mediterranean Flair the anniversary of Ludwig the First’s birth is still celebrated here in the villa every year like the bavarian king the painter mark sleepwalked loved the fuss an entire floor here is devoted to his paintings slave hooked is considered
One of the most important representatives of German Impressionism wine is the heart and soul of the region and the largest economic factor but fuss is the biggest Riesling grape growing area in the world thanks to the work of young committed business wines from the firts region are becoming increasingly
Popular and winning prizes as a virtue of my mother is that sometime we’ll be recognized internationally as a high quality wine region that lots of wine growers participate and that we continue to look for the potential our locations provide and improve it so that we make
Advances bit by bit every year a trip along the German wine route begins or ends right here at the German wine gate in swaggin as soon as you go through it you’re in France and can continue on your merry way you