driving in Winningen, Germany

This is a driver's view or front seat view of a Viking Cruises narrated tour bus ride through various parts of the German town of Winningen, which is a wine making center located on the Moselle River fairly near to Koblenz. We were here as part of an "optional excursion" (meaning extra cost) during a Rhine Getaway river cruise. This was the Moselle Wine tour which ended up at the Richard Richter Winery. The date of this video is June 30, 2016. We really enjoyed our Moselle wine tour and highly recommend Germany as a tourist destination and Viking as a cruise line.

P.S. 8/11/22. We subsequently did an Austrian wine tour during a Danube Waltz Viking Cruise and I liked this Moselle one better, mainly because they got into way more detail about the vineyards and the wine making process and actually took us out into the vineyards during this Moselle wine tour. It doesn't hurt that I prefer German wines to Austrian ones, even those made with the same grape variety, Riesling--for whatever reason, the German wines, especially Moselle ones are consistently sweeter than Austrian or Alsation (or Alsace) ones made with Riesling grapes. No one was able to explain to me why that was so consistently true even though I asked as many people as I could.

P.S. #2 8/11/22. This was our first Viking Cruise and we have now had 6. Given this was during our first I was reticent to say much but now I can say with total confidence Viking has consistently exceeded any reasonable expectations I had concerning what a cruise or cruise line should be. Whatever issue arises (not that there are many), they fix it and quickly. Really amazing care. Once you land, everything is up to Viking between then and the airport return flight. They pick you up and deliver you to the airport among other things. Another important thing I think is that even though this was an optional excursion, the included excursions with Viking are generally fabulous and sufficient and one gets to do substantial and informative excursions without ever paying extra. Most of my videos are from included tours but I don't consistently distinguish which is which.

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