European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hiick of grapes ready for the 1958 Vintage 9 the the produce wines for and Eden opens Princess Heide joins including rdc St time in the Rotor bottling 1958 West Germany is celebrating a Good 1958 wine with Quality reported fair to Good by Brendan staff writer at this time of Kafi All Germany is in mood in Celebration of a Mit according to o German winegrowers production u very Good n Quantity and the Quality is fair to the German populace along to Moses and in the in the  Nouth of Mannheim and in the area of the Middle Rhine Between Donn and Bingen Are turning out in droves to help celebrate tin Good in the Wuerttemberg North Baden area and from Linden Linden to Freiburg and in the Ahr Valley North of similar crowds Are also on hand to Hilp make the local Winti oils a Hough Only two per cent of German lurid in used for it produces nearly 70 Thoi Kund Gallons of wine and fur no Mes employment for a Hal million people during the wine wine production in Germany in a of shot million annual Busl the town of de Kohm in the Fth lne Palatine to area u a typical Ici Inan wine with a population of just Over it u located on Germany famous is a Road Rurik link parallel to the Rhine front Mon Helrn Soulli almost to the French for Miles along the Wein Slusne the land in completely gluon Over to grape Cultivar and each town Joni the route in a Furt Ioui name plume in its own known to wine  the world to Mark what the  called an exceptional the townspeople knocked off work for the annual three Day wine ext in thanksgiving for year and Alno us a Short re Halle from the hard work of gathering the at As the wine film if a time for fun and frolic but it is also a time for a serious appraisal of the local the fun includes the selection of a wine fest Queen and music and entertainment by Folk dunce troupes and band of the ubiquitous Gorman travelling carnival moves into town and sets up shop in the Public to the blare of trumpets and the heat of 17yearold Helde the wine made her grand sur rounded by her carnival she raised a huge Goblet of wine in u Toast to the new in which she was joined by nearly persons present in the festival then came More ruffles and flourishes and tin grand entry of the voyeur old enrol like Hurt then the guests and visitors settled Down to merriment and wine the More serious aspect of the a Dan Koben or any German wine fast for that in the ritual tasting of the various wines produced in the wine tasting in n solemn rite at which n com Mittee wits around a Long table while bring the various samples to be tested by smoking in forbidden in the testing area and the wines Are served according to numerical the stars and stripes tasting does not involve according to Albert a member of the Ede Koben tasting with the reputation of being the Foremost wine taster in the he recently appeared on German television is a member of a fireman committee rated is the top win tasters in following his own Bolbus Sam pled each specimen by taking a Small por Tion and swishing it around Over his Tongue and after which he spat it with 20 or More samples to choose a wine taster could soon lose his tasting said Walter head of the palatinate school of Agricula who also served on the the leading German wines cant be according to a German winegrowers Union it changes each according to How the a Reuther was in the different win producing wine which is Good in one year might not be Good the next because of insufficient Sunshine or rain or vice the Best German wine is always the so called  which Means that the grapes Are left on the Vino until they Are dried before the process of wine making this is always mentioned on the Label of the the fun of the German we newest is not merely for the local the wine fests Are major tourist visitors Are Welcome and practically guaranteed an enjoyable few Page 13