Grapevines were introduced to the region by the Romans in the C8th A Wine Trail of Different Sort The Wine Trail wasn’t so much about liquid refreshment as a self -guided educational experience. Wine has been grown around Stuttgart since Roman times and you can still see the style of cultivation which they brought with them. While you can practically walk among grapevines in the city of Stuttgart, those at nearby Esslingen , are some of the oldest in Germany. The vines are all on stony South – facing slopes to make maximum use of the available sunshine. Struggling up some of the steep steps, I hate to think what it must have been like for workers carrying huge baskets of grapes. At regular intervals there were cute little huts and you could open one of the shutters and look inside. Round about were little stories and homilies about wine and nature notes about the kinds of herbs and plants which grow on these hillsides and which add their unique flavours to the wine fro...
Veronika Wild
Practising Geographer - nature culture places people