Wednesday, October 22, 2008

October: Winery tour on the Mosel River

We took our photography club to a winery on the Mosel River. The grapes were mostly picked already but the fall colors were pretty. We learned a lot about grape growing. For instance the red leaves are for the red grapes and yellow leaves are the white grapes.
Alfred and Mary's fields are across from Briedel. They often take the ferry to get to the fields.


Mary took us up a steep hill where grapes are grown in slate.

She is a wonderful teacher. We learned a lot about growing grapes that day.


We also got lots of good exercise.
Mary happily sold quite a few bottles of wine at her place after our excursion!

At the end of our journey Mary took us up to the top of the hill, Marionberg, where we overlooked the entire valley. There's a former monastery at the top.