Arweiler, Germany
April 17th 2007

Today we had an excursion with school to the city of Arweiler. This tiny city is famous for its wines. In fact, our visit today was centered around visiting an old family run wine company and learn how wine is made. (All in German of course, after all this was a “study” tour).

The city itself is located near the banks of the Rhine, between Bonn and Koblenz. It is a charming little town, probably a nice place to spend a weekend – away from the hustle bustle of the city, clean air, great restaurants and cafes, and of course vineyards. We had a small city tour at first, and then we broke out for lunch. After lunch we visited the wine company.

We did not spend much time with the actual wine making process tour. This was a really small business apparently so it took us about an hour to learn about the wine making process. After that – the treat we all had been waiting for – wine tasting! This was no wine tasting; it was bottles of wine and a lot of wine at that. Reminded me actually of the wine tastings we have in school at USC. How I miss those. Anyways, this was just as nice. Sitting in the cellar and trying the different wines. My favorite was a Lieblich white wine which was a little sweet. I found that so refreshing. We tried about seven different wines and were given the whole bottle. Considering that there were 10 of us drinking wine, we all probably had about ¾ of a bottle each. Not bad at all. :-)

Adam, Wes, Andy, Ellis, Josh, Jeff, Me, Abby, Brandi, Jeff and Anna

Maya posing with Fruh Kolsh beer :)