ah ah ah ah, with tristan on the elbow river. it's early in the morning and the old town is only just beginning to stir, waiting for the 1st tourists. you could spend days just going through the churches and museums blue, but i've got other plants. i have a steamship waiting one from dressed in white fleet. today i'm going to take you on a trip along the saxon wine route, right. y and root. the name says it all, and one of those ships down there is gonna take me quite comfortably into the vineyards starting here in grayson via are the boil all the way up to the town of

mason. my day includes a sparkling wine to her at buck about castle. we visit the irish spoken mason, the cradle of sexton and my colleague nicholas were released has sent us a travel report from spits bergen. ah ah the white fleet and dressed and still as 9 historic paddled steamers. ah these days the ship stopped. vian steams along the saxon wine route. one last look at dress and skyline. and then it gets rustic. ah!

after about an hour i go ashore aminada boil, the city is the center of the saxon wine route. it is one of the smallest and northern most wine growing areas in germany. ready the steep slopes, the small palaces and the dry stone walls. that's what the region is known for. most of the wind produced here is served and consumed locally. the oldest winery in saxony is the whole fuson. it's. it used to belong to the saxon electors and the most famous of them. augustus the strong is said to have celebrated lavish wine gallows. here to day, organic winds are produced on the hoof loose knits which you can taste on the terrace time for a 1st class and a 1st jet blue. hello. hello. you have already prepared something. what do we drink? let's get the. what's the point of this?

welcome drop is the tra mina. what is that? this is a wine, great. that's been grown here for centuries to the best of health. good. huge. you only offer organic wine, why? my english? so the 1st of las nits is the 1st and only organic vinyati in the form of east germany. would the decision to do this was made immediately after the wolf fell. we'd had pretty bad experiences with the pesticides used during these german years . what we wanted to do things different role as they did outside and with rosen faithlink. so it was natural for us to occupy this nation or dialogue and a half less. next is doing quite well to fill them with guns, good. divine the wine that is produced here in saxony. oh, can i buy it anywhere jonathan? asthma, it's available over the internet. most finance have an online order service that most of the sacs and wine is drunk. here and saxony, abo, of that course i, the sexton by, this'll take share of germany. total wine production comes to chance 0.2 percent,

and a 1000000 unto for new komatsu by a put centers. i chose how little it is been a lot more wine as drunken saxony than grows here. i feel vexed if there are many stories about august strong he said to have drunk 3 leaders of wine daily. is that correct? as the hep swipe as well and said that he drank 2 to 3 bottles a day on good days in chancel company might have been as many as 6 or 7. yes. me that he drank excessively or both as i'm off on the but can pat his father. johan gail, the 3rd who was a real drinker augustus was fairly moderate. will on and a double instrument, relative musical thing. go lead like modern things, don't eat to a health ah, for sex, an elector love the beautiful things, not only wine and women, but also pump and splendor in every form. he has made that east and what it is to

day. a pearl of the barrack, and here are the highlights. ah, 300 years ago, augustus the strong ruled as prince elector of saxony and king of poland. he brought artists and architects to his court. he had seen and marvelled at the splendors of courts in france and italy as a young man, and invested great sums to transform the sleepy dresden into a european class metropolis of the arts. he had that spring a palace built, for instance, in this sprawling complex the prince celebrated lavish, gallus court balls and masquerades that often went on for days to day that spring, a houses several collections started or greatly expanded by august. as the strong

one is the old masters picture gallery among the masterpieces to be seen. here are raphael sistine madonna, with its world famous details. the collection focuses on great works from the 15th to the 18th centuries from titian to rembrandt. that singer hosts great names of art history, much to augustus the strong's credit. the prince elector also decreed a thorough renovation for the dresden castle. he had the state apartments installed . now after being closed for over 70 years, they've reopened to the public. after world war 2 bombing, the dresden castle was just a shell. reconstruction only began piece by piece in 1986. the painstaking restoration of the state apartments is yet another phase and a long process. the dresden armory started by

saxon dukes and electors has been open to the public since 2013 incidentally augustus the strong was not quite as good a commander in wartime as he wasn't architect or art collector. his treasure chamber. the green vault sparkles with jewels and precious gemstones augustus the strong himself put them on public display. what good his wealth and fine taste in art without some one to admire it. among the most spectacular pieces is the royal household of delhi, encrusted with nearly 6000 diamonds. originally, it cost some $60000.00, which took august is 5 years to pay off. finally, we come to the residence frau and kalia. august is the strong lived to see its cornerstone laid, but not its completion. this church of our lady, too, was consumed by the flames of the 2nd world war bombing. it was only reconstructed

after germany's reunification. the frown tiasha with its slender almost floating dome, is a masterpiece of baroque architecture. augustus the strong would certainly have liked it. ah, now we go up to the winery called golden of ogden, the golden wing of god, a boy it. hello. hello lucas. it's nice to have you here at the golden wagon before we go to ride back to my toilet is an innkeeper tour guide and hobby vintner. he claims this staircase many times a week. he owns a little vineyard next to the golden wagon. so out of breath. no, no, no, i'm in good shape. listen as it keeps me fit. the long climb is rewarded with a spectacular view of the elder valley. on clear days, he can see all the way from the golden wagon to jason and the czech republic. by

october, most of the grapes have already been gathered. only a few bunches remain on the vines. thomas corbett says about 80 percent of all vintners in saxony. do it as a hobby, like he does. as a boy, he worked in his uncle's vineyard and later took it over. the work is tiring, but the wine is delightful. all these walls are they just ornamental or do they serve a purpose and inspect the mountains and go walls are very important facts and he's very far north for a wine region and we've got some problems with climate and in a wall like this soaks up the sun all day and stores heat like an oven and then radiated backwards as we i'm a little to work with and is there a difference between wine growing in east germany 30 years ago? and today as before, when that i said john gets indian vine back, not that much has changed about the vineyard. wanted to stay the steep slopes in particular, are still kept up by the hobby vintners. as for the commercial wineries down here produced their premium winds,

their top quality winds up on the slopes as well. of course it's to my knowledge, but the hobby vintners are the ones who sweat and strain to keep these walls built up. though with state financial support and others would have to but physically it's very demanding, worked and globally stag lane. all right, so you're all b vintner. jo ryan, up, we found a smart solution in saxony, but we work smaller areas, not as many vines, but put all the more love into it. nissan was helping her. you look down on by the professional wine growers assessment adjustment. as if the pope is in the professional wine growers are glad to have the hobby vintners working to keep the countryside in shape by peoples that they would not be able to handle it economically. such di, this deep slopes couldn't be maintained without a hobby vent. nurses, and if the vineyards fell into ruin, the tourists wouldn't come in, and the commercial wineries wouldn't be able to sell their wines any more. i'd muffle cove and cummins on do you have to work daily or are there rest periods? and i what happens for example in winter was by his most been vinto as it been though still in the winter,

the vines have to be pruned and the trellis is repaired. what's left on the window when others meanest. of course if it's minus 20 degrees celsius out and snows on the ground, that's when you enjoy your wine. i said you hobby venza labovic but you have to have the time now to switch to po unbundle. i skipped, they say a vine wants to see if the master 17 times shaped oxide house. but there are different views on how to spread those around a year dug up to those feet by them. if you know how many vines are you, the master for 830 and these 830 vines will make 830 bottles of wine, and i'll try one of them. so without having to write, i brought you a flavor full drop from the golden wagon and try it. hoop yamaha. it's was to visit the solars. thank you for what fruit does that remind me off. maybe pineapple. i thought i lost. ah yes. yeah. very good luck in that the pineapple not quite pronounced. am i wine connoisseur?

mine cannot blend because you're learning. i'm impressed. it has a taste, greg, was it? that's the most important thing. charitable is getting to know the country and its people tasting typical food and typical drinks. that's very important for a lot of people when it comes to traveling. some people also need a little bit of action me, for example, or our view xena moorlick, her holiday video from australia for our demons. lot looks like a lot of action. ah, shores hand on the beach. but isn't the street a couple of times with

a jewel of saxony, vignettes, it's back about castle named after the count, who had it built around 1730. today, it's the location of the saxon state vignette. it produces wine both sparkling at none and offers tours and overnight stays. i've sampled several winds to day. now i choose a sparkling wine tour. it begins with beginnings of course, and to look back at the castles history in yachts that's over 180 years ago. in $1836.00 saxon wine, gro, as had the idea to bring the bubbly beverage to saxony, including north, that was champagne at the time it trending. you drink upon a french cell, a monster brought the art of making sparkling wine from champagne year to the elbow . hillsides mala, the tour proceeds to the winery the various types of wine age in enormous tanks.

the cell a monster, combines them to produce sparkling wine. did fulton aim right, his compliment each other very nicely. elise ling kana, and pino bronco together to create our classic bottled fermented sparkling winds in the tradition of augustus the strong and aku bay. though the base wine ages over several years then yeast is added for the alcoholic fermentation mckayla, myself on a cell. a master says the sparkling wine is perfect, i'm ready for pouring the bottles, go into a wriggling racket with lots of french invention in the quite suzy affinity. all the bottles are riddled or rotated daily for 4 weeks. so the lease or debt yeast settled in the neck at it's done by hand when pop is clicking thumb is the best part of the many stages of making sparkling wine is the last one, the tasty. the, the to the 2nd one,

routable time for our euro. traveled thought my colleague because poorly was travelling in the far north of europe on spits. burden. well in the archipelago is definitely not a destination for people who are prone to chill, blaine, but the call was wrapped up properly. ah, it almost seems like the north pole is just over the horizon, a last outpost of civilization and the frozen noise. you may well be wondering where on earth i am. i'm in long year been in small bard. i'm in europe northernmost town, and that is by far not the only record long here be in holes. ah valve are lies about halfway between the northern tip of norway and the north pole. longer

been with a population of around $2100.00 is the largest settlement is on the 78th north parallel. no other settlement with over a 1000 residents lies farther north in time for a 1st look around, but i'd rather go in the company of my guide, frederick broberg and his rifle polar bears could be anywhere here real ones this time. this is the best thing to have with you when it go outside this town. no secret trick to scare them away. you know as to the different kinds of bears in the world. the black bear shall brown bash and white bears that says that the, if it's brown lay though, if it's black fight back, if it's white goodnight due to the permafrost, all of the homes here are built on stilts. it's practically impossible to raise lie, stop or farm. still some one was brave enough to try benjamin bit. martin

a chef from the us. wow. some green. finally. he plans herbs and vegetables and his polar greenhouse. mm hm. mm. cant even taste the arctics with as i good about it, the guy benjamin 1st came a small bird back in 2007 and fell in love with the place. the only problem was the lack of greens. i wasn't happy with the food situations, you know, you pay 50, kronos for iceberg lattice. that's a lot of money for an iceberg, lettuce, and i'm thinking home, i would never even eat this. i wouldn't even needed. somebody gave it to me. but here i'm like, i'm iceberg lettuce on on, you know, you have to eat because you don't have anything else and i just was so frustrated. so you know, this is, i have to do some either i leave or have to do something. now he's applied local restaurants like the groove, a logger at with his herbs. here,

fine dining is served up in a former coal mining warehouse headset. phillips arcadia has served the likes of the norwegian, royal family. with the next morning i prepared to make an expedition frederick fro back, takes me to one of the nearby fjords. ah, he wants to show me the wall of the 2, no brain tidewater glacier. ah, every time you come to a small boat or get out in nature, the light is different and that makes it very special because it's like seeing a new place every time it without. i'm truly impressed with long here being the northernmost town on earth. ah!

the steamboat takes me now from god, a boy to my son. the shut vian is the oldest ship edris white fleet. it was built in 1879, but 140 years slater. the engine is still running smoothly. now of a town of mice and comes in sight with its vineyards and castle hill at the markets wherein mason there is also a fountain kiddish of just like and dressed. in addition, narrow streets and lots of wine bars. by the way, the 1st vignette and saxony was documented here and my son, 850 years ago. and then again climbing stairs. but

i'm already used the beth. oh, the mice and to feed root is 80 meters high. and 800 years old. the 2nd attraction up here is the i wastes book, the oldest castle in germany. now you might ask yourself the i will it's book. is it a fortress or is it a castle? well, the answer is it is both. first, it was a fortress van. it was a castle and later even a factory. this building is more or less 1000 years old, and a lot has happened at that time. to day my son's i'll brush spoke might come across as charmingly elegant.

but a 1000 or so years ago when it 1st took shape above the elbow, the fortress was designed to be daunting and unassailable. going along with funds in 929, king henry the 1st henry, the fowler, came to this river. i fought against the slobs and took his hill back. i knew he had a fortress built on it at the time on stilts and bull goes far. and that's really when it all began for the saxons for the us and others. beginning saxony, rulers lived in the fortress through the high middle ages until the age of fortified castles ended, the nobility demanded, housing befitting their status. and so in 1471 work began to convert it into the 1st german palace with ball rooms and living and working quarters. arnold of vest failure was the court builder there on the phone with fine arnold valia introduced

3 essential architectural innovations to the castle. which was this one. is the cell bolting with its fascinating play of light and shade. because the bolting reaches high into the roof. in the stalking nigh, and the arched curtain windows were the very latest fashion, the vento shine, the elegant round stairway has been copied many times since. the windows brought lots of light into the previously dark castle. but as splendid as the castle was hardly any one actually lived in it. my son had meantime forfeited it status as residents of saxony. rollers to dressed in the castle stood empty till augustus the strong had an experimental laboratory set up for the alchemist johan. treat wish put go, but go had promised to make gold, but the gold he finally made was white. porcelain. in 1710,

europe's oldest porcelain manufacturers started production in the outbreak spoke. received the machine, the hub might so got various machines were installed, not including a steam engine in the 19th century inside them on norfolk to a hub, seem glad if busiest a good 700 people were working here in the castle i did in the late 19th century the factory moved down into the town. to day mice and porcelain is still hand made there. once again, the albert's boat was left empty, and once again, it was renovated and painted with several murals depicting chapters from saxony. turbulent history, which began here in my son's. i'll brush, spoke ah, do you know what it takes to make a real castle?

exactly. a casso tavern, even if the weather is not very inviting, it's enough for a last look over mice. i noticed one thing above all to day, most of the wine here is served directly in the taverns or at the wine growers on side. that means if you want to try some of that delicious wine, you just have to come to the saxon wine route. i have to admit it's a small wine region, but it's got a lot of history and culture. cheers. ah ah ah ah

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