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After a pleasant stay in Bad Sobernheim, I took a...
After a pleasant stay in Bad Sobernheim, I took a short trip across the Nahe and up to Meddersheim to visit Weingut Hexamer. The young proprietors were out delivering wine but the senior Hexamer was kind enough to give me a tour and taste some wines. There is the usual... Continue reading
Posted Aug 22, 2010 at O S Winery
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Bad Sodernheim
Bad Sodernheim is the lovely town just upstream from Oberhausen where I stopped for weiss beer and schnitzel and spent the night at the Hotel Ratshof with seating outside on the edge of the beautiful town square. My room on the other side looked out an interesting complex of houses... Continue reading
Posted Aug 2, 2010 at O S Winery
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Helmut Donnhoff and his family are the proprietors...
Helmut Donnhoff and his family are the proprietors of one of the world's great wine estates. Nestled amongst the bucolic hills of the Nahe Valley in the little town of Oberhausen is Weingut Donnhoff, an exquisite winery, above and below ground, producing an armada of amazing wines. Pinot gris, pinot... Continue reading
Posted Jul 14, 2010 at O S Winery
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The ride down the Rheingau from Eltville to...
The ride down the Rheingau from Eltville to Rudesheim involves a number of towns: Erbach, Hattenheim, Winkel, Osterich and of course Geisenheim, home of the elite university program in oenologiy and viticulture. There is a no schedule needed to ferry across the Rhein to Bingen with two or three boats... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2010 at O S Winery
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Kiedricher Grafenberg is primarily owned by...
Kiedricher Grafenberg is primarily owned by Weingut Robert Weil and is one of the great vineyards of the Rheingau( rheingau www.edenwines.co.uk ) I tasted a full range of dry and off-dry wines from R Weil. They were uniformly impressive, wines with highly defined flavors carried on a structure as strong... Continue reading
Posted Jul 8, 2010 at O S Winery
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David Rayer (Dahveed Rahyeah) helps with the Pinot...
David Rayer (Dahveed Rahyeah) helps with the Pinot Noir at Keller which is stellar. Klaus-peter Keller and Julia both did stages in their training at premier Burgundy estates. M. Rayer has a very informative blog moselfinewines.com (which is interesting for a French guy). I was too shy to take pictures... Continue reading
Posted Jun 22, 2010 at O S Winery
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This is the courtyard to Weingut Keller, the...
This is the courtyard to Weingut Keller, the starting point for an extraordinary tasting. The vineyards are here in Florsheim-Dalsheim and in neighboring Westhofen, NW of Worms, in the southern Rheinhessen. Continue reading
Posted Jun 22, 2010 at O S Winery
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The cars were lining up all day, Jun 3, at Weingut...
The cars were lining up all day, Jun 3, at Weingut Keller's release event. It's a dynamic tasting with distinctive separate tasting locations to match the distinct different groups of wines. The wines are dramatic and precise. The 2 wine makers Klaus-Peter Keller and his wife Julia Keller preside over... Continue reading
Posted Jun 21, 2010 at O S Winery
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How old do you think Herr Wolfgang Schon is. After...
How old do you think Herr Wolfgang Schon is. After biking 20 km with him from Nackenheim to Gundesblum at a steady 30-35km (it's fairly flat) and rotating the lead ever few Km I'm thinking about maybe 50 something. This hotshot is 71 and claims to drink a bottle of... Continue reading
Posted Jun 21, 2010 at O S Winery
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This is the first night in Germany Jun 2 at...
This is the first night in Germany Jun 2 at Pizzaria Pisa in Wallau where my new friend Jason lives southeast of Wiesbaden and northeast of Hochheim . The beer is Bitburger. Great pizza. I'm ready for a long ride up the Rhein and back. Continue reading
Posted Jun 21, 2010 at O S Winery
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DAY 1-Rheingau, Rheinhessen, Nahe, Saar, Mosel and Ruwer: 15 days of Riesling and Roadbiking
1st Sargent Jason Meineke at Domdechant Werner'sches Weingut in Hochheim with a half case of Riesling Trocken I bought as thanks for all his help. He sat next to me on the flight from Amsterdam and offered to store my Bicycle box at his house near the Frankfurt Flugehaven. It... Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2010 at O S Winery
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Wow, landed at Frankfurt OK but experienced my...
Wow, landed at Frankfurt OK but experienced my first case of slow to arrive luggage (my bicycle of course). In true Owen fashion I was rescued by my seatmate 1st Sgt Jason Manicke who lives nearby and put me up until the bike was delivered. In the meantime we drove... Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2010 at O S Winery
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Tasted wine and had lunch with Rahgav Kehr ( check...
Tasted wine and had lunch with Rahgav Kehr ( check google) What a nice guy and just a little fascinating. He's got the wine bug. Welcome aboard Rahgav. You know that song "The Spider and the Fly"? It's really about the wine business. But we love it anyway Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2010 at O S Winery
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This new blog has been made with the expert...
This new blog has been made with the expert assistance and advice of the incomparable Jordan Soltman of Vashon Island Tech Support. Big hand for Jordan! Continue reading
Posted May 18, 2010 at O S Winery
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Two weeks from now I'll be cycling down the...
Two weeks from now I'll be cycling down the Rheingau, Nahe, Saar and Mosel rivers indulging in my version of the Daily Double: two of the worlds greatest wineries per day, starting with Robert Weil in Kiedrich, Weingut Keller in Florsheim, The Staatsweingut at Kloster Eberbach etc. Yo can look... Continue reading
Posted May 18, 2010 at O S Winery
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