Phone: +496519917555
Address: Palastgarten 5-7, Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 54290
City: Trier
Menu Dishes: 7
Reviews: 4038
Website: http://www.oechsle-weinhaus.de
"So this is a restaurant with a wine shop upstairs. Mainly I was looking for lunch, not even wine tasting. But I knew they had some wine tasting upstairs, so I figured I'd try some to help me decide which wine to get for lunch. The guy upstairs tells me how it works... you can do a guided wine tasting of 6 wines for (I think) 7 EU, or for 15 EU, you get a glass, and try whatever you want, as much as you want. Wait... what???Oh yes, they set you up with a glass, a carafe of water, a bucket, and a variety of bread, and you can stay there till 6PM and try any or all of their 130 wines. For everything that you see on the shelf, there is an open bottle in the refrigerators. They give you some guidance on what kind of wines are located where, and then you have the run of the house! Each wine has an explanation (in German), along with sugar, alcohol, and acidity content. I ordered a light hors d' ovre of vegetables and smoked salmon for 7EU, and soon a massive plate of sauteed and marinated vegetables and lox emerges to accompany the wine tasting. So 3 hours later... I'm doing my best not to look like I'm stumbling out of there after what was intended to be just a quick lunch, thinking how much I'm really starting to like this Deutschland place right about now... But they do a brisk business this way. They're no dummies. Out of 130 wines, there's bound to be something you like. Well more power to them! I wound up getting 4 bottles because there's only so much you can stuff into checked luggage. I saw others getting cases. Wish we had something like this back home!"
All prices are estimates on menu.
Trier, Germany's oldest city, boasts Roman ruins and the Porta Nigra; typical dishes include Riesling wine and specialties like Treberwurst and Viez.