Local winemaker · Ediger-Eller
This two-hour tour takes you into the vineyards above Ediger-Eller, a wine village upriver from Cochem at the foot of the Calmont, and ends with a tasting of the local wines. There's no boat in it: pick it if you want a close look at the slopes the boats only pass.
Ediger-Eller is two villages joined into one, with around 900 people, Riesling on the slopes and streets of half-timbered houses from the 16th and 17th centuries. Ediger still has stretches of a town wall first mentioned in 1459. Eller sits under the Calmont, whose vineyards count among the steepest in the world.
The tour is simple: two hours, a guided walk through the vineyards and a tasting of the wines grown there, from $32. It's the cheapest wine experience on this site and a good counterweight to the boat days, where the wine comes in a glass on deck and the vines stay at a distance.
There's no boat in the package, and the train is the easy way to get there. Ediger-Eller station sits at the far end of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel, 4,205 m under the hills from Cochem, so the ride takes minutes instead of the long way round the bends. Check the meeting point on your voucher before you set off.
Take the regional train from Cochem to Ediger-Eller, straight through the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel.
At the meeting point given on your voucher in Ediger-Eller.
A guided walk up the slopes, with the story of the vines and the work on steep slate.
A tasting of the wines grown on the hillside you've just walked.
★★★★★[...] perfect wine tasting with a very friendly consultant!
★★★★★It was a really fun day! Lots of different activities and a great finale at the winery.
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No. This is a two-hour vineyard walk and tasting in Ediger-Eller. You get there on your own, most easily by train from Cochem.
By regional train through the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel, a ride of a few minutes. Ediger-Eller station sits at the tunnel's southern end, near the Moselle bridge.
The hill above Eller and Bremm, with vineyards on gradients that rank among the steepest in the world. A via ferrata climbs through them to the ridge.
About two hours, per the listing: a guided walk through the vineyards followed by a tasting.
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Two hours in the vines above Ediger-Eller with a local winemaker, ending with a tasting.
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