Rheingau and Mosel, Germany

Instead of just put the "pedal to the metal" and get back home to Sweden we made a trip of it.

We had an overnight in Salzburg and then made our way up to Koblenz. It's located very good geographically in the region towards Mosel and Rheingau. It's an incredible wine region!

German wines are famous and also infamous for "sweet" Riesling.

But lately they have been showing more to it's famous side...

We had a booked tour with this amazing producer, Josef Leitz.

We had a great time! Here we are driving around in the vineyards and being educated by the master himself, Johannes Leitz.

The beauty and history of this region is impressive!

The grape, Riesling in it's prime

Imagine the strength of the pickers when the slopes are like this...

Well, it all comes down to the golden juice in the bottle :-) M's excited to try the beautiful wines.. Leitz is defenitely one of the top producers in Rheingau.

The small cozy streets of Rüdesheim...

Another top producer is Künstler. Amazing wines and a pretty nice building too :-)

Yep it taste as good as it looks :-)

Day 2 we had a Mosel day. We made a booking at Dr Loosen.

I'm familiar with their wines from before so I knew they make fantastic wines.

2010 was no exception! Incredible wines and 2 boxes went into the little Prius...:-)

This is how some wineproducers live...:-)

We also made a booking with Dr. Thanish. This was upon recomendations from S back in Sweden. This was also an amazing producer, very classic Riesling. Great!!

Of course we asked where to dine here in the region... There was a few tourist traps so Michael at Dr Loosen recomended this little pearl.

This was a hotel, a fine dining restaurant, a cooking studio/banquett restaurant and also a bistro. The bistro was open so we went there...

M's salad with fresh garden greens and seared beef stripes was very good.

My home made sausage with mustard and sauerkraut was amazing!!

Finishing off with wafers and redwine infused cherries....yeah!!!

There is a lot of people travelling around in the region and sometimes busloads of seniors comes crashing in, but it's a great place.

Follow recomendations and try to find these little cool places and you will love it!!