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Salzburg Christmas Markets and Fortress Hohensalzburg

Posted on December 24, 2014 by waywardwine

In case Christmas Eve gets too festive, I’m posting this now.

142 days of travel and we have winterized ourselves. Our EU Austerity Drinking Tour leaves icy, sober Dachau for the Austrian border and glorious Salzburg! Home to Mozart, music, and…salt. Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austria, Champagner, Christmas market, Classical Music, Europe, Mozart, Music, Salzburg, travel | 2 Comments

Jack Creek Cellars, Estate, Pinot Noir Reserve, Central Coast, California, 2006

Posted on December 22, 2014 by waywardwine

Let’s break from our EU Austerity Drinking Tour for something more to home. This Thanksgiving our family took a turkey break and visited Pinot Noir country in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Stops at Archery Summit, Angela, Lange, and Troon all highlighted the many forms and clones that Oregon Pinot could take on. Continue reading →

Posted in Pinot Noir, Uncategorized | Tagged 2006, and Troon, Angela, Archery Summit, California, Central Coast, Estate, Jack Creek Cellars, Lange, Oregon, pinot noir, Pinot Noir Reserve, Willamette Valley, yamhill carlton | 3 Comments

Dachau

Posted on December 18, 2014 by waywardwine

Today we sober up from the Munich palaces and an unpronounceable Scheurebe white wine with a visit to Dachau’s concentration camp. We link a train and shuttle and then shuffle through snow and suburbs. Then the duplexes stop abruptly at … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arbeit Macht Frei, Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany, Nazi | 4 Comments

Scheurebe Wine from Bruder Dr Becker, Rheinessen, Munich, Germany

Posted on December 15, 2014 by waywardwine

With the holidays in full swing, we need to escape from the joy/stress of shopping, family/work parties. So Wayward Wine will up posts EU Austerity Drinking Tour in the following weeks.

Last Monday’s post, Munich’s Residenz palace managed to glow through winter. We slighted some rather nice beer (mainly out of frustration with the monopoly of big producers). So let us give Germanic wine a chance.

Munich lacks water bodies to make wine this deep into the continent. So this white comes of the steep banks of the Rein, in the heart of Germany’s western wine country: the Rheinhessen: Continue reading →

Posted in EMPTIED BOTTLES, Riesling | Tagged Brüder Dr. Becker, Germany, Kabinett, Rhein river, Rheinhessen, riesling, scheurebe, wine | 2 Comments

Munich: Residenz to Bavarian Royals and an EU Austerity Drinking Tour

Posted on December 8, 2014 by waywardwine

The 140th straight day of travel ticks over with my wife and I (still married) jetting across Germany into Munich. Strasbourg charmed us with its bilingual, Alsatian wines, Christmas markets, and history. What will the land of lager bring our EU Austerity Drinking Tour? Continue reading →