Rudesheim Wine Tasting

This week we attended our first wine tasting in Rudesheim, a village that has been producting wine for some two thousand years after the Romans settled here and began growing grapes. As you enter the village, one side of the road is lined with grape fields and the other side by the Rhein river- very scenic.



If you click on the picture of this cobblestone street, you can see how many little gift shops and restaurants are packed into this small area. We didn't get a chance to go into the shops, but I'm sure we'll be back, as the Christmas markets here are supposedly a must see.



Here is a picture of us in the "cellar" (dating back to 1480) where the wine tasting took place. We tasted 5 different wines (4 white and 1 red), all produced by the Stoerzel family whose name appears in the Rudesheim archives beginning in 1647. This family owns 15 acres of vineyards and picks all of their grapes by hand, which guarantees only the best grapes are used to produce their wines.



If you look closely, you can see pretzels on the table in front of each person, which we ate before trying each new wine.



After the wine tasting, we went to dinner at a local restaurant, where our host from the wine tasting delivered all of the wine bottles that were purchased.

Here is the website for anyone who is interested in reading more about the vineyard or seeing more pictures of the region: http://www.weingut-adolf-stoerzel.de/Design/Engl_Home.htm