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just almost trump and slightly more potent our 2 part documentary analyzes the difficult relationship between russia and the us and between their presidents how does their rivalry and their dangerous mutual admiration affect the rest of the world to some bullies trump and putin starts august 3rd on d.w. . griffith. through much of the buying and work of human hands wind has been part of our culture for thousands of years and it's an important symbol for christians. to wine is an expression of human culture that can represent god's closeness to us humans and his total identification with us to. the cathedral city of trivia
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probably more than anywhere else in germany here one can see the close connection between catholicism and why the independent ios and vineyards produce them wine specifically for use in the mass. is what it was there for the it involves a lot of manual work and requires a lot of dedication for one of the leading wine producers in the mosul region it's important to us to continue the tradition of wine growing and nurture this cultural property it's our heritage our mission of. what's the origin of the close connection between the catholic church and why. what makes the grapes so important in the history of christianity. the story of the grape is a thread running through the whole of biblical history beginning with noah in the
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book of genesis the builder of the ark is named as the 1st farmer to plant a vineyard his story culminates in jesus who catholics believe is truly present in the eucharist wine. wine and grapes the vine everything to do with wine making are mentioned more than 600 times in the old testament you sense that something very important. wine influenced the lives of ordinary people in the bible it was part of everyday life inseparable from jewish and christian culture. jacob brought it to him and he ate and he brought some wine and he drank genesis $27.00 verse $25.00 of it in there since wine is associated with social life it's with eating and drinking together it's also connected with human relationships i'm sure but sealed but. i am the vine and you are the branches if you remain in me and i and
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you you will bear much fruit john 15 verse 5 even today the grape is a symbol of fertility and of a country's prosperity but he believes wine is also a visible and symbolic expression of god's blessings. and i don't know any other plant or any other cultural property that is such a powerful metaphor of new tougher gopal. on the slopes of the river mosel the heart of germany's oldest wine region the connection between church and wine is tangible even today the history of tree cathedral has always been linked to wine growing. historical documents show that members of the archdiocese used to be released from their religious genes his jury in the great harvest and the medieval tradition of
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parishes and monasteries producing wind is still alive and well today. the vineyards belonging to the tree archdiocese are among the most admired in germany in fact they set the benchmark for the entire moselle region. these vineyard stretch of 130 hecticness an area almost 3 times the size of vatican city but they haven't always been they speak in 19663 large estates each of them centuries old or amalgamated the archbishop's vineyard the vineyard of the diocesan seminary and the cathedral vineyard. most of the diocese in vines are planted on the steep slopes of the mosul valley
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they include world famous and prestigious chair walk like the cancer out and back. it spring and their loosening up the soil traditional techniques sustainability and respect for the environment a core values here. i. know it was much of the work is exhausting especially in hot weather because a lot of the work is done by hand. there are many plots which attract contacts s. there we have to do everything by. traditional techniques are also used in the enormous surplus with the winds are aged in barrels. spread out over some 30000 square meters underneath the city center the cellars house winds from the slopes of the muzzle the roof and the song. each cell is the
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size of 4 soccer fields no wonder yohannes spec it uses a bicycle the lanes extent of a kilometers becca is lord of this wind up or inthe he's been chief winemaker since 987. i mean i've been racing around these lanes for the past 42 years i know these sellers better than my own home. games of so unlike many modern wineries we use traditional wooden barrels and we use the same techniques that were used 500 years ago we don't interfere with the wind. you see somebody here for instance you see a barrel made in 1966 which was. when we filled this one with the peano blank from which will later make a cremona style sparkling water. because one of the criminal needs to mature in an old barrel so it doesn't take on the oak flavors for sort of open only when
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a barrel is really old and has been primed as the wind relatively unaffected by the woods. here as to why should i now here is one of the oldest barrels we have as you know. but we don't know if it was cooper to 958 or 10 years from partitions that makes it over 60 years old which is about the life expectancy of this kind of barrel as old fossil. it's not just the barrels that are old in another part of the cellar there are water pipes station back to roman times the 2nd century a.d. . so he home the entire film here we have an example of roman plumbing discovered by my predecessors in the 1960 s. when they were excavating the cellars tell us if they don't give us a lot of the pipes lead down to the tree or imperial. the romans built a large complex of thermal babs about 500 meters from here the old city of tree or more parts of it are virtually under our feet here the romans also brought wind to
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the mosul region could be seen roman wine prices have been found all the way down the mosel valley providing evidence of a wine growing tradition it's very good with you that's why. the sale is a food myths and legends like something out of a harry potter movie. see its i know form this is one of the 7 treasure chambers in our old cellar vaults. until the 1950 s. there was a tasting room for clients. after swirling the wine around in their mouths they spat it out and to this sandstone drains those who don't use. the stella isn't use for wine tasting anymore. instead it houses some intellectual treasures
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the archbishop's very finest vintage racing's. sort of home to you know here we have our iler coupe for the superb wine from 2011 but it's a fruity riesling that venom fied with residual sugar it has lots of fruit flavors and a wonderful spiciness iler coop is simply a great one for one of our in. the wind takes its name from the hill on which the vineyard is located on the famous mostly southwest face. in slope. given you just sat and the sun has referred to this specific environment gives candidates the grapes it produces. here where i live cope has a slate bedrock which is important because it stores the heat by day life and radiates the warthe back to the vines at night that gives our wine
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a wonderful aroma. along with its epicurean qualities wine has played a different role in history one than today we're surprised that so much wine in beer was drunk in monasteries it probably has to do with the fact that water was so dangerous like a fairly today we know this was because of bacteria and. also in the ancient world clean drinking water was a rare commodity beer and wine diluted with water were there for common beverages. the bible even attributes healing properties to wide. for instance in the book of proverbs we read. let beer be for those who are perishing wine for those who are in anguish proverbs 31 verse 6. in this white wine became an important cultural tradition which the archbishop's of
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tria foster to this day though their motives are of course different. some are in the diocesan vineyards is a busy time for staff and more and he's the wine est manager responsible for all the workers in these lenience. my is showing in the growth period we have a lot to do our vineyards stretch from the mosul to the sar as far as wilting and these are war and the weather is always a major concern it's our biggest worry for the weather does whatever it wants we can't influence that by. warm temperatures in march
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late frost in april droughts in july it hasn't rained for weeks the vintner's work is at the mercy of extremes weather and wind growing are often a stress test. yard in america that's true and you can see we need some rain soon so on the other hand lines have very deep roots that everything's ok for the moment or we must watch what happens in the course of the year but right now we'd be glad of a little rain. conditions that modern wind grows consider a stream or part of the course an anxious times the geographical location of the holy lands produced a climate of hot summers and perennial drought various plagues also annihilated harvests. the vine is dried up and the fig tree is wither surely the people's joy is withered away one in verse 12. but not everything is
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left to chance in july the leaves are pooled in the tree of diocesan vineyards careful pruning is important for the vine that way it gets more sunlight. the diocesan vineyards are brown as a business so they have to make a profit and produce good returns. if an angle isn't. growing he explains that the business is very different to what it used to be 100. vineyards are run entirely by professionals now.
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in the days when parishes in this region have their own vineyards to make wine for the masses but also to provide revenue are long gone and for. today the tree. is an independent private enterprise a great just a company employing 33. with the morning. 2018 is going to be a good. laws i think so the acid levels. are stable the only negative thing is process damage and some scalding which means we'll have a much smaller harvest and. these produce some 620000 bottles of wine each year their oldest and most traditional customer if not the biggest is the catholic church.
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one man in particular personifies the link between tree a cathedral and wine growing assistant bishop franz yourself gave it even has a grape ball in his coat of arms france gave it was born into a family of local wine growers and is a trained wine cooper. as a theologian he's also very aware if the religious significance of. the eucharist is the source and climax of all ecclesiastical life without the eucharist there would be no church and without wine. so there's an essential link between.
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all you have created rightly gives you praise for through your son our lord jesus christ in their car by the power and working of the holy spirit you give life to all things and make them holy and you never cease to people to yourself. a pure sacrifice may be offered to your name. we humbly implore you by the same spirit graciously make these gifts we have brought you for consecration. of your son our lord jesus christ. and we celebrate these mysteries in which he himself took bread and giving you thanks he said the blessing broke the bread gave it to his disciples saying. take this all of you eat of it for this is
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my body which will be given up for you. in a similar way when supper was ended he took the chalice and giving you thanks he said the blessing and gave the chalice to his disciples saying take this all of you and drink from it for this is the chalice of my blood the blood of the new and eternal covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins . the catholic church teaches that christ is truly present in the consecrated great and wine. and he's in reciting the sacrificial prayer we believe that it affects what it says that's to say a change of substance occurs and without the outward characteristics of the bread
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and wine changes that we can. of course that's an act of faith but it's the basis of every mass. so wine is crucially important and the sacraments matter becomes a vessel of divine salvation. and to waters that baptism of. wine and bread in the eucharist. this isn't magic it's the working of god and his spirit but it's not just words not just ideas it's done comes on and that's why we need matter that we can't touch that we can't eat and drink called water in which we're submerged the woman. well there are how to have our school very very house car one preacher and deirdre jesus through the schools until the 16th century catholics mostly used red wine for the mass the color was considered especially appropriate to symbolize in the blood of christ but it was gradually supplanted by
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white wines for practical reasons most of the wine north of the alps was white and red wine could stain the old linens. however be should give it has his own theory. is governed a bit in the middle ages there were many stories of miracles where blood dripped from the consecrated bread and i assume that white wine was introduced because one didn't want to strong in association with blood like the fruit of the sea. motive or the reason the church has never regulated the color of mass wine only that it must be pure and unadulterated. it has to be choose from pressed grapes that's been fermenting or you can't use any artificial substances then you have to. the. laws governing the production of wine in germany forbid the use of additives anyway this means that at least in theory priests in germany can buy wine
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for the mass at the local supermarket the bishop gave it wouldn't dream of doing such a thing he personally selects the wine for massa celebrated in tree cathedral and of course it all comes from the dial sisson vineyards. 6 and. once a year he meets up with irvin angle for a wine tasting. more of the the 1st mass is at 7 in the morning or so we have to select a fairly light wine or on the 1st minute of an arm to have an angle can't say exactly how much mass wine is consumed in a tree a diocese each year but it's no longer absolutely necessary for the cathedral to be
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producing its own wine the diocese is not dependent on it financially. this is the an honor for me as with families there are certain things that we want to errands and one does them out of respect for the past year the church is marduk society it's embedded in a particular lanza gave this so we can serve the region's cultural values is to a pray go on i'm already here on the most all wine has been produced since roman times and i going to one called kids always been the air and we don't question it is untrue except for stone fish god the wine culture here on the most of the roof or in the sun attracts people from all over the region and thousands of tourists flock to the wine festivals each year even in biblical times wine was associated with celebrations and festivities. and there is life to
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a man who is without wine it has been created to make men glad ceroc 31 verse 27. john's gospel tells us that jesus is 1st miracle was to turn water into wine as a wedding jesus said to the servants fill the jars with water and take it to the master of the banquet and he tasted the water that had been turned into wine john 2 verses 7 through 9. says he find john the baptist have often spoon why because of its alcohol content jesus on the other hand appears to have enjoyed the great he was even labeled a draw. drunkard by his enemies but moderation in all things is a virtue. in the time machine latin or no mean us that means our one bottle you are then the number of people resident so if you're alone none more quiet. but there'd be
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no wind at all without the great powers in the tree and ios is in vineyards the harvest starts in october the long awaited rains have finally arrived the grapes bust be harvested immediately all the cold and damp will make them start moldering . time is of the essence now and the work starts very early. they work up to 10 hours a day on the steep slopes carrying up to 50 kilos on their backs this is hard work . but many of the pieces return year after year they all have a special relationship to the vineyard.
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are some of this is not my 1st time i've been coming here for 26 years it's gone from the cloud i feel well don't use new stuff i wouldn't want to change my job because i know everybody in the firm and they're going to answer the phone you're. giving. me a bit of 25 tons of harvested each day and delivered to the wine press a bit of. just a few kilometers away here a chance hofburg the grapes oppressed. the work requires sensitivity the grapes oppressed gently so that the bitter substances
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are extracted more slowly the harvest is smoothed last year and the quality is very good. and i think that's because of the dry summer we had hardly any rain after below 0 temperatures in may and hail some days we had 10. it has between 40 and 45 degrees celsius it can't be helped anyway the quality of the grapes is better so we can't complain as i saw 1st the falls. there's a lot of work to be done before the wine in stop involves. the harvest is the best time of year. in life dedicated to one growing. here on the banks of the most on the move or in the song this is a sense of harmony between the people and their environment the close relationship between wine and religion is the heritage of disco drawn landscape.
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