Trier Wine Culture Trail 
As one of the largest wine-growing communities in the area Mosel-Saar-Ruwer,
the classic Riesling wine area, Trier is considered the cradle of German
wine culture. Everything in Germany having to do with wine, wine history
and culture has its origins in Trier. As a special offer to all wine friends
and those who wish to become wine friends, the Association of Olewig Wine
Growers maintains the Trier wine teaching path. Beginning in the direct
vicinity of the Roman Amphitheatre, you can learn along a path about 1600
m (1 mi) long "interesting and curious" things about the life and cultivation
of vines. Along the way, you can read from illustration panels about the
relationship between grape varieties, climate and soil and, for example,
about the Devonian slate typical of the Moselle region which possesses
a great capacity for retaining heat and thus favourably influences the
microclimate of the vineyard.
Every season offers its own special landscape charm, when the vines are
pruned in Winter, the ground ploughed in Spring or the young shoots are
tied up in Summer. You can learn the diverse tasks of the grower in the
vineyard: from varieties of cultivation, ploughing (with or without wenches),
new vineyards, fertilising all the way to the wine harvest, when the fruit
of the year's labours can be taken in as the crowning finale. But then
the work really begins; the grapes must be taken care of quickly, the
must tended, the fermentation watched over. And here you have the opportunity
to have a look as well. After about an hour of comfortable walking, the
wine teaching path takes you to the Trier wine village of Olewig, where
you can visit the wine cellar of one of the growers of the Association
of Olewig Wine Growers, who rotate weekly. You learn about mash, degrees
of Oechsle or racking off before you can then enjoy the individual characteristics
of the very diverse wines in a wine tasting. This offer is rounded off
by specialities from the kitchen of the respective grower.