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After six days straight in the vineyards, I started to dream about rocks, slate to be precise, so much so that I wrote my my maid of honor speech for my best friend’s wedding around the theme of rocks for her big day the next weekend.  Don’t ask… Slate. It covered the ground, in many […]

After almost 48 hours awake, 14 hours of sleep, and a big Deutsche breakfast, we were ready to check out the vineyards. I should clarify, we had one breakfast at 2am on Saturday, accompanied with a glass of Riesling halbtrocken, when we woke up and couldn’t fall back asleep… It’s been a relatively dry summer […]

Fortunately or unfortunately, this post is not about Charlie Sheen getting drunk on Riesling in the German wine region. [Insert: *This was actually a very special day because the evening before Johannes had planned a very romantic champagne boat ride on the Mosel River during which we got engaged! I said yes, in case anyone had doubts…] […]