Wine tasting Alsace or Mosel valley

[Bennybannsider2]

I'm trying to plan a holiday to Germany for either Halloween or Easter. We will go to either phantasialand or Europapark for a day. We will have a hire car. We will probably stay in a centre parks/ landal type accomodation (possibly over the border in Netherlands or France.)

And I would like to do some wine tasting. Has anyone toured the wineries either in Alsace or Mosel? Easter is in March 2027- will this type of trip work at Halloween or March? (I see that the Alsace wine bus only does weekends in march and we probably won't be there over a weekend.)

The wines in these two regions are very different so I would say it also depends what kind of wine you like.

i can only talk about white though.

i only have been in late September or early October for the wine harvest so can’t comment what is available later in the year or so early. But I assume most vineyards do some form of tasting all year rounds.

Mosel is fairly full bodies, Alsace is dry. If you normally drink New Zealand for example the Alsace ones may be too dry and a bit too sour for you.

For example my PIL in Germany buy direct from a vineyard in Palatinate, across the border to Alsace. My favourite grape is a Silvaner and I just can’t drink it at their house.
it tastes utterly different from the ones in Frankonia, Northern Bavaria, where I lived for several years.

I know that Waitrose sells some Alsace wines and M&S some Mosel. Maybe get some bottles of the same grape, for example a Riesling, and compare.

In general I prefer Mosel whites but I'm an amateur and only drink ones widely available in UK.

I hope the vineyards are open all year!