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- Duane Meissner - 09-06-2008
Visited a great little city called Neustadt in Rhineland-Pfalz today. Ate at a great little local restaurant (can't recall the name). Had a popular local dish called "Saumagen" (or Sow's stomach) mit saur kraut und brotchen and real german mustard. Excellent. You can only find it sold in Rhineland-pfalz. It's some type of pork meat with chunks of potato, chestnuts, and spices in loaf-form. Had this with a glass of the local "neuwein," which is a mostly unfermented, unfiltered, cloudy white (riesling in this case I'm sure). Very refreshing.
I love being here!
- Innkeeper - 09-06-2008
Duane, if you ever get to Oppenheim please try to track down the Noll family winery. I suspect they may be long out of business because when we were there ('66-'68) Mom & Pop were elderly and the only son was studying to be a doctor.
It is lovely town in Rheinhessen. At least when we were there, you just had to drive down the main drag and knock on the door of any house that had wine bottles in the window. Sure miss it.
- TheEngineer - 09-08-2008
Duane,
Keep posting your experiences! I love reading about this! Your description of the Neuwien makes me wanna try some. must be like some homey'er more honest version of Beaujolaise neauvous!!
- wondersofwine - 09-08-2008
I hope while you are in Deutschland you get to visit some of my favorite places such as Triberg in the Schwarzwald (nice waterfall as well as the cuckoo clock places) and Burg Eltz near Moselkern (fantastic castle in a fantastic setting.) http://www.burg-eltz.de/e_index.html
I also loved Heidelberg on the Neckar River and Michelstadt in the Odenwald. In my experience, while Munich, Cologne, Dusseldorf, etc. had some things worth seeing, the smaller villages were more fun to visit than the large cities.
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