What an Evening!

We just experienced one of the most special and memorable nights that we have ever had in Germany.

As a Christmas gift to us, Per's PA, Nicola, prepared a beautiful three course authentic German meal and personally gave us a professional wine tasting of different wines from the Rheingau region, the area of which is is from.


We learned about the different tastes in the mouth like sweet, salty, bitter and sweet and where they fall on the tongue. Nicola came with five different wines and each one had a story behind it, which I thought was fascinating. I certainly didn't know that moldy grapes made good wine and that only Proseco which was from Italy could be called Proseco. The equivalent of that in Germany is called a Sekt.



After sampling the five different wines, we got to choose the one which we thought was our favorite and that was the one we had with our dinner.

The dinner menu was the following:
The first course was something called Spundekäs- which Nicola described as a secret from the Rheingau area - but, it was a fantastic fattening cheese dip with chives, garlic and lots of creamy stuff in it. It was to die for.


The main course was called Beef Olives which was a secret recipe that her mother has shared with her. It was very yummy. The only sad thing was that we had eaten too much of the first course and were so full that we were only able to finish half of the second course.

The dessert was called a Bavarian Cream dessert which would give us a "summer feeling" and it certainly did. Although it hadn't fully geled yet, it was still good and the raspberries on the side added an extra special flavor.


Nicola went all out. She had prepared so much beforehand. She was up at 7am preparing the food and the dishes and came with flowers, a present for Keira and just such beautifully prepared food. She brought the special glasses from which the wine was served, as well as the dishes. Her father had helped her with an explanation on each of the 5 wines in German and Nicola had spent most of the night before using Google Translate and trying to make sure that she got it all correct in English.

We were very impressed and extremely honored and touched that she went through so much trouble. We had a fabulous evening and we truly enjoyed ourselves. It was one of the best Christmas presents we have every received!