wine-related picures from the Mosel and Rheingau

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Super-ripe Riesling grapes in Zeltinger Sonnenuhr
Harvest 2009

Heavily Botrytised Riesling grapes

The Mosel wine harvest 2009

Part of Zeltinger Sonnenuhr. The area around the rocky outcrops used to be known as Zeltinger Rotlay, and some winemakers still use this name.

The pretty village of Ürzig

Parts of Ürziger Würzgarten are simply astonishngly steep.

Ürzig seen from near the top of the Würzgarten.

Erdener Prälat is the small steep vineyard in the lower right.

Graach seen from part Of Graacher Himmelreich.

The view from Graacher Dompropst.

Wehlener Sonnenuhr seen from Zeltinger Sonnenuhr.

Hard at work in Wehlener Sonnenuhr. As in many of the best vineyards there is no soil at all, just broken slate.

Bernkastel with the Doktor vineyard behind.

Bernkastel seen from the Doktor vineyard.

A tiny weinstube (wine bar) in Bernkastel,
built in 1416.

The gravestone of a Roman wine merchant, now in Trier Landsmuseum.

The Porta Nigra, a Roman gate to the city of Trier, built around AD 180.

Just one of the stunning collection of Roman artefacts in Trier Landesmuseum.

An ancient Roman milestone near Piesport

Piesporter Goldtröpfchen

Trittenheimer Apotheke

The loop in the Mosel at Trittenheim.

Eitelsbacher Karthäuserhofberg

Eitelsbacher Marienholz

Picking Eiswein grapes in Zeltingen in the very early morning while they're frozen solid.

The plastic netting is used to protect the grapes from birds. 2007.

The 2004 eiswein harvest in Zeltingen

An ancient winepress now in Bernkastel
wine museum

These vines are extremely old - over 150 years - and produce tiny amounts of wonderful wine

An ancient wine-press, now in the headquarters of the Hessische Staatsweingüter, Eltville.

The beautiful Kayla, 4, in Wehlen. Wehlener Sonnenuhr and Graacher Dompropst are on
the other bank.

Traben-Trarbach with the ruins of Grevenburg castle behind.

The ruined castle by Jan Erik Hoel

A picture of Kröv by Jan Erik Hoel

Cochem, seen from the Reichsburg, by
Jan Erik Hoel

The fairy-tale castle of Burg Eltz, seen from
the north, by Jan Erik Hoel

An ancient winepress now in Bernkastel wine museum	These vines are extremely old - over 150 years - and produce tiny amounts of wonderful wine	Old vines
Small grapes from old vines for the best Auslese	An ancient wine-press, now in the headquarters of the Hessische Staatsweingüter, Eltville.	The beautiful Kayla, 4, in Wehlen. Wehlener Sonnenuhr and Graacher Dompropst are on the other bank.
Traben-Trarbach	Traben-Trarbach with the ruins of Grevenburg castle behind.	The ruined castle by Jan Erik Hoel
Traben-Trarbach	A picture of Kröv by Jan Erik Hoel	Wolfer Goldgrube
Cochem, seen from the Reichsburg, by Jan Erik Hoel	The fairy-tale castle of Burg Eltz, seen from the north, by Jan Erik Hoel