Mosel River Cruise & Riesling

Mosel River Cruise & Riesling

The Roman poet Ausonius sailed this river in 370 AD and wrote 483 hexameters about the vineyards. The slopes haven't changed — Bremmer Calmont reaches 65 degrees, so steep that workers use cable winches and monorail tracks instead of tractors. In 1360, Archbishop Boemund of Trier fell gravely ill. His aides brought wine from one specific Bernkastel vineyard. He recovered. The 3.25-hectare 'Doctor' vineyard has been the most expensive in Germany ever since. At the Wehlener Sonnenuhr, vineyard workers still tell time by a sundial built into the hillside in 1842.