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Along the Mosel(le)
Mar. 17th, 2018 03:59 pmContinuing the holiday posts from last Easter, we paid one last visit before we left Trier:
The Vereinigte Hospitien ('United Hospices') advertise themselves as 'Germany's Oldest Winecellar': hence the prominently displayed reproduction of the 'Neumagen Wine Ship' (we'd seen the original, alongside other spectacular funerary sculptures from nearby Neumagen, in the museum the previous day). I'd ordered and enjoyed their riesling at the restaurant on our first evening in Trier (and been charmed that their logo is a drawing of Santiago in his pilgrim garb, an image which has haunted us on other holidays, but which we hadn't expected to see here). Now we had retrieved the car, ready to move on, we took the opportunity to stop by and buy some wine to take home - and the reception was so friendly and so generous, we were sorry not to be able to linger, and to taste more extensively. Perhaps another time we will have the opportunity to visit those very old wine cellars...
But for now, we followed the meandering Mosel. the vines clinging all the way up the slopes above it, at crazy angles, interspersed with winches. We paused, of course, at Neumagen:
We hoped to find lunch there, but it was closed. Down by the river there's a landing stage where a replica wine ship is moored, but the place was deserted, so we headed on to Bernkastel-Kues, and from there to our next destination, Aachen.
The Vereinigte Hospitien ('United Hospices') advertise themselves as 'Germany's Oldest Winecellar': hence the prominently displayed reproduction of the 'Neumagen Wine Ship' (we'd seen the original, alongside other spectacular funerary sculptures from nearby Neumagen, in the museum the previous day). I'd ordered and enjoyed their riesling at the restaurant on our first evening in Trier (and been charmed that their logo is a drawing of Santiago in his pilgrim garb, an image which has haunted us on other holidays, but which we hadn't expected to see here). Now we had retrieved the car, ready to move on, we took the opportunity to stop by and buy some wine to take home - and the reception was so friendly and so generous, we were sorry not to be able to linger, and to taste more extensively. Perhaps another time we will have the opportunity to visit those very old wine cellars...
But for now, we followed the meandering Mosel. the vines clinging all the way up the slopes above it, at crazy angles, interspersed with winches. We paused, of course, at Neumagen:
We hoped to find lunch there, but it was closed. Down by the river there's a landing stage where a replica wine ship is moored, but the place was deserted, so we headed on to Bernkastel-Kues, and from there to our next destination, Aachen.
