Monday, July 28, 2008

Visit to Stoffel Family

12 July - All 7 of us visited the home of our favorite German Son, Michael Stoffel, in Leiwen (Liven) Germany. Leiwen is about 15 miles east of Trier on the Mosel River. Michael lived with us 5 months in 2007 as an exchange student. Michael's parents, Alfons and Petra, were excellent hosts. They greated us with sparkling wine then took us on a tour of the vineyards. Michael's family owns a vineyard (winegut) and guesthouse (gasthaus). http://www.weingut-stoffel.de/index.htm We ate a wonderful lunch of salad, schnitzel, French Fries (Pommes Frites) and dessert at a hotel overlooking the Mosel River valley. It was a great lunch with family.

After lunch, went to the Mosel River to see a recreation of a Roman Wine Barge. The region was settled by the Romans over 2000 years ago who introduced grapes to the area. Leiwen is the 2nd largest wine producer on the Mosel with over 3 billion grape vines.

We returned to Michael's home where Petra served two outstanding desserts. James asked Petra to marry him!! After the desssert, Alfons held a wine tasting (wineprobe) for all. We tried 11 wines from dry to sweet. The wine was fantastic. Jamie was helping Petra cook dinner. Jamie had a great time and I think Petra really enjoyed having a girl help out in the kitchen.

We ate grilled pork cutlet or grilled pork cutlet wrapped in bacon, salad, baked potato (kartoffel), tomato/mozaralla salad, bread (brot). IT WAS GREAT!!!!!!!! and of course Stoffel Wine!! and a cremefreche dessert with grapes.

We departed full of food, wine and memories of a great day. Kim drove :))) We look forward to many more happy memories with the Stoffel Family.


Michael, Alfons, Petra, Judy, Jim, Kim, Jamie, James, Tot


Roman wine Barge


Dinner prepared by Petra and Jamie - OUTSTANDING

Leiwen on the Mosel
Tasting the best German wine - Stoffel wine

2 comments:

The G's said...

Did Michael enjoy his gum you bought? Looks like you had a great time.

Myungsup said...

You had a great time in the great place with great food and wine together with great family. All of you look so happy. We will also have such a great time in two years or so.