The Moselle Wine Road - Germany

Trier is the oldest village in Germany and is quite lovely although the museum visit was a little hard for us to follow but we discovered that all Roman architecture in Trier is part of the Unesco World Cultural Heritage List and is protected.

We had a lovely lunch, and sitting in the sun we chatted and enjoyed the memories of our family and friends who would be safely asleep in Australia. The time difference is about 19.5 hours so for most of the time some of us are awake and enjoying the sun and the rest of us are asleep and keeping out of the cold.


We enjoyed a little retail therapy and bought each other a pair of '5 Fingered' shoes which were surprisingly more comfortable than they look before getting back into the van and heading to the Moselle Wine district in Germany.

The Moselle Wine Road 

What an amazing region with a length of more than 240km from the German-French border and 40km running through the grand-duchy of Luxembourg to Koblenz where it meets the river Rhine. The Moselle encloses an overwhelming rich wine-growing region, the foundations of which were laid by the Romans and examples of their magnificent architecture can still be seen today.

Vines grown in shape of company logo

We enjoyed driving through this area and stopped at Cochem, which is about half way, where we strolled the streets, had lunch and then walked to the Imperial Castle which overlooked the village. It was a beautiful place, full of people and the odd bus but was quite lovely with market fountain and old city walls. The castle overlooked the city and had an amusing live Eagle display where the bird, clearly with a mind of it's own, decided to fly into the clouds and stayed there for a while enjoying the temperate wind flows before being 'buzzed' by a bird much smaller as it tried to return to the castle. This 'little' bird was quite determined to make a name for itself and continued with it's own little act for quite some time much to the amusement of those who continued to watch.

Beautiful flowers

The old and the new

 On an early morning walk, we were taking the photo of a wine grower as he sat on his tractor, when he sprang up and opened a nearby door and proudly showed us the tractor his father owned. He then proceeded to take us to his underground cellar, which was dark and mouldy, and continued to chat about his winery in half German / Half English before taking us into his office area for some wine tasting.

Our 'winegrower' loved his tractor and shasring his

We bought several bottles

OO-LA-LA  - it was some wine. A fabulous 2009 Moselle and before we knew it, we'd purchased 7 bottles in anticipation of our trip with Traci and Tim. He was a fabulous fellow, really friendly and helpful and certainly helped to make our time in this area very memorable.