Mosel Kellerfest Piesport

Mosel Kellerfest Piesport

Under Piesport sits the largest Roman wine press north of the Alps — 44 metres long, seven basins, built when Trier was capital of the Western Roman Empire and this press may have fed Constantine the Great's court. During Kellerfest, winemakers open their actual production cellars: no tasting room performance, no marketing — you're drinking from the barrel where the wine was made, surrounded by the tools that made it, for €2-3 a glass. The Goldtröpfchen vineyard above was nearly destroyed in the 1970s when cheap producers hijacked its name. The wine in your hand is the reclaimed original.