Weinfest der Mittelmosel Bernkastel

Weinfest der Mittelmosel Bernkastel

In 1955, Konrad Adenauer poured Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling for Nikita Khrushchev. The tasting freed 10,000 German POWs. A bottle of that 1953 vintage was auctioned for $25,000. Every September, 200,000 people flood this half-timbered Mosel town for Germany's largest Weinfest. Saturday night, fireworks launch simultaneously from three points including Landshut Castle ruins directly above the Doctor vineyard. On Sunday, 20 villages march through town with illuminated wine floats. The Spitzhäuschen — a 1416 house whose upper floors are wider than its base — has been hiding this structural impossibility for 600 years.