Tour of a Sekt Cellar (May 24, 2007)

Complete Set of Photos

This Thursday the international student organization group offered a tour of the Kessler Sekt cellar in Esslingen, a suburb of Stuttgart which I have previously blogged about. Sekt is essentially German champagne, but they can't say champagne because that's a trademark of the area in France.

The cellar was located right next to the main church in Esslingen in a ~700 year old building! It was a cool tour - we got to see the bottling equipment, the racks in the cellar, how they go around and hand turn the bottles to make the yeast sediment settle on the bottom, how the wines are selected to be made into champagne,

At the end of the tour, of course, we got to sample some of the Sekt! There were three different kinds that had fermented right in the cellar underneath us. They were pretty good too!