Seeking advice from Riesling fans: Mosel/Rhine Cruise

Hi all,

My wife and I are taking my mother-in-law on a river cruise for her 70th birthday. The cruise goes down the Mosel and Rhine rivers. I know taht obviously a cruise limits flexibility compared to visiting the area by car, but if anyone has recommendations on bars, shops, or winery visits that we should fit in, it’d be greatly appreciated.

The cruise stops are:

Frankfurt
Mainz
Ruedesheim
Boppard
Cochem
Trier
Remich
Bernkastel (unfortunately time here is very constrained - 6pm the night before through 2pm the next day. I’d really like to go to a winery - Joh. Jos. Pruem is booked already.)
Bonn
Cologne

Thanks for any advice anyone has to give!

This should help

Schloss Lieser is a 4 minute taxi ride away (4 km) from Bernkastel. We were there in July and had a wonderful tasting. Very relaxed and informative tasting of 8 wines. Set a reservation and enjoy!

Tom

this is one i am really considering. Schloss Lieser, Markus Molitor, Willi Schaefer, and Selbach-Oster.

Also, don’t forget to visit Weinhaus Porn in Bernkastel. Usually you can taste some wines there and you can find bottles of old vintages too.

It’s been a dozen years or more since I was in Trier, but von Kesselstadt is based there and they had a casual restaurant with many of their wines by the glass, including some older ones.

Walk/take the gondola through the Rudesheim vineyards up to the Niederwald monument and park. You can continue to Assmannshausen by taking the chairlift down. Walk, taxi, or take the riverboat back to Rudesheim. I recall that there is an all-in-one (gondola, chairlift, riverboat) ticket.

In Rudesheim, have lunch in the garden at Georg Breuer’s Rudesheimer Schloss. Eat the local smoked trout if on the menu and drink from their reserve wine list.

They seem to have a knack of selecting wines for tasting that are at their (early) peak. Quite special!

Leitz is in Rudesheim. Fabulous wines.

Don’t expect to find taxis easily outside of the major towns. You can have a long wait in Bernkastel for example.

Breuer had a walk-in tasting room in Rudesheim, reservation recommended at Leitz for sure.
Kunstler in Hocheim is near Mainz. Also, Das Weinhaus in Trier.

Das Weinhaus is also an excellent restaurant and as mentioned has an extensive wine list.

Tom

this one is so heartbreaking. we arrive on one of the last days of April at 6pm and depart the next day at 2pm. Weinhaus Porn/Rieslinghaus is open from 2-6pm until May. pileon