Stuttgart Wine Country (June 17, 2007)

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Last weekend, AEGEE (the student group that organizes all of these foreign kid excursions) had an event at a wine museum and some wine tasting here in Stuttgart. This was cool - wine is also very popular in Germany, especially in the south. There are many vineyards around Stuttgart too, and Baden-Württemberg is well known for its wines.

We started out visiting the wine production museum in Uhlbach, a part of Stuttgart just on the other side of a hill across from Untertürkheim, which is where the Mercedes factory is. This was a somewhat interesting museum - we had a crazy German tour guide who had funny looking hair take us around and show us some of the different sorts of grapes and so on. There was also a neat collection of the tools and tractors and such that the workers would use.

After the museum tour, we walked down the road up to the top of one of the hills, passing through cherry orchards and, of course, many vineyards. The grapes (the ones we saw were Riesling grapes) were still very small and not ripe, but it was cool to be right there on the sides of the hills. When we made it to the top (to a mausoleum monument), we all sat down on some benches and sampled a variety of German wine that our student guide had brought along.




It was a very nice afternoon spent in a very nice area of Stuttgart!