This is it, the big weekend of Freinsheim Food and Wine Hiking – the Kulinarische Weinwanderung. Today, after a week of warm “old woman” autumn, it is suddenly windy and cold. (A result of fickle nature – other years it has been almost too hot.) No matter, the wine keeps us warm.
We wander among the grapes of many varieties and sample 
vintages and culinary delights, for example sheep’s cheese (Schafskäse), grilled outdoors on a barbecue constructed from a former wine press.
Relatives and friends join us along the way, and near the end I get to taste “new wine,” available only in the autumn. It tastes (dangerously) innocent, like grape juice, but packs a wallop in alcohol content, something like hard apple cider.
The Weinwanderung, held in the fourth weekend of September, has been a tradition for around twenty years — May it live on for many centuries to come.
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