The Art of Entertaining

by M. E. W. Sherwood

"Bacharach has produced another fine wine.

'He never has been to Heaven and back

Who has not drunken of Bacharach.'"

And Longfellow says:—

"At Frankfort on the Maine,

And at Würtzburg on the Stein,

At Bacharach on the Rhine,

Grow the three best kinds of wine."

We know but little of the superior red wines of Walporzheimer, Ahrweiler, and Bodendorfer, which come from the valley of the Ahr. The Ahr falls into the Rhine near Sinzig, midway between Coblenz and Bonn. The wines from its beautiful vineyards are a fine deep red. The taste is astringent, somewhat like port. There is an agreeable red wine called Kreutzburger which comes from the neighbourhood of Ehrenbreitstein. Linz on the Rhine sends us a good red wine known as Dattenberger. These are all pure wines which know no doctoring.