Trip to Germany

[Zinner]

CCK
All of us are green-eyed! Especially if we've been to Germany which I think also has some of "the" nicest people, some of them the vintners there.

My suggestion would be to get a copy of the current Gault Millau German Wine Guide(hope that's the title, can't find my English language version). It's written by Armin Diel, who is both a winery owner and journalist and Joel Payne, an American journalist who's lived in Germany for years.

If you go to Kloster Erberbach(which has very nice accomodations within it, by the way), then Weingut Robert Weil is nearby. Wilhelm Weil is very nice to look at and oh so charming, but I can't vouch whether he's single or not. Your're on your own there!

As for the wineries, there are so many wonderful ones---Fritz Haag, Schloss Lieser, Dr. Loosen, Reinhold Haart, Von Hovel, Franz Kunstler, Von Kesselstatt, Gunderloch, Reichsrat Von Buhl, Dr. Burklin-Wolf--well, you get the idea. I spent about 10 days just in Germany last trip and didn't get to half that I wanted to visit.

But I tend to do trips that cover less territory than you propose because I hate to spend too much time in the car just going from one place to another. I like having time to stop and chat with the locals.

The German Wine Information Bureau in New York would have booklets on the regions and festivals and such. I don't have the info at my desk(trying to get off on a shorter trip myself now) but I'll be back in a week or so and will look then if you still need contact info. They shouldn't be hard to find.