My great amiga Jamie has not only mastered the art of taking a 9-way photo (I have no idea how to do that!), she's just sent me intel on a delicious sounding evening over her way - in Germany. It's a night full of food, wine, laughs and I'm sure lots of funny misunderstandings (unless you speak German, of course).
She's living over there these days with her rock star hubby...near his family...that happens to own an enchanting wine farm. Sometimes she rolls back to the US to work with me on TV shows, but once the insanity of production and reality show crazies is over, she's on the first flight out. Straight back to the simple life - with lots of wine, of course. I can see why. All fresh, all fascinating, all new, all things that we should all experience once in our lives.
She and her team over there deserve a shout out to all Toothies for living the inspiring life -- so here are the deets (in Jamie's words) for those of you headed to Europa soon:
weingut geissler was started by dave's grandparents after the war and is now owned & run by their son/dave's uncle- wolfgang geissler and his wife, christiane.
so over here, winemakers can open a weinstube (which is a cross between a restaurant & a bar- but a bar that only offers the winery's wine!) for a total of 4 months a year and they are allowed to serve ONLY regional specialties in terms of food... like, we can't do a pizza night or even put olives on the table as a little welcome bite... so anyone that runs a true weinstube it's almost always a small menu. plus, most places do a lot of pre-packaged/pre-made stuff (i.e- frozen fries, store bought potato salad etc. like equal to costco style in the usa). (MST - Grody)
we are different in that EVERYTHING is either homemade or bought from local artisans. high-end weinstube! our potatoes come from the organic farm the next town over; our bratwurst- the meat was literally hunted, killed, broken down, gone through the old-timey grinder, special seasonings added and filled the traditional way... all by the winemaker himself. christiane bakes almost all the bread and what she doesn't make we buy at the baker fresh in the morning. tonight we literally used wild chives that wolfgang saw and plucked out in our vineyards this morning... also, weingut geissler is a founding member for our chapter of slow food here in the rhineland-pfalz.
everything is super simple - we just serve all our wines and maybe a menu of five special things...we open every thurs, fri and sat at 6pm from now through the end of may and then we'll open again after our harvest: october through- december.
all toothies are welcome - and you can come in anytime the 'stube isn't open for a tasting!
we are in duttweiler- neustadt an der weinstrasse (this is the town),
rhineland-pfalz(this is the state)- exact address and info:
weingut geissler
Burggarten 7
67435 Neustadt - Duttweiler
Tel: 06327 2770
Fax: 06327 1546
email: info@weingut-geissler.de
web: www.weingut-geissler.de
*Back to MST - I can't get past how delicious this all sounds, how fun the night would be, how tanked I'm certain I'd leave there, and how great it is to have friends 'round the world doing really cool stuff. Life gets shorter and shorter every day. Live now. Eat now. Travel now. Be happy now.
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