Festival · Mosel

Mosel Kellerfest Piesport

Mosel Kellerfest Piesport — July wine festival — local vignerons open cellar doors (kellerfest = cellar party) — Riesling verticals from producers who dot narrow river valley; live music between pours.

What to do there

FestivalMosel Kellerfest PiesportUnder 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.

Wine bars and wineries nearby

Wine bar · Zeltingen-Rachtig Zeltingen & Wehlen Mosel twins: Zeltingen (1780 operetta village) + Wehlen (50 sundials, Sonnenuhr vineyard)—steep slate Rieslings, wine festival heritage.
Wine bar · Ürzig Steep Slate Vineyards Ürzig's Mosel slopes hold Germany's steepest terraced vineyards with red volcanic Rotliegend soil yielding fiery, spice-forward black-currant Rieslings.
Winery · Piesport Roman Wine Press (Piesport) Piesport's 4th-century AD Roman wine press (7 basins for 60-hectare harvest) ranks largest north of Alps, discovered during 1985 excavation.