{"id":564,"date":"2018-12-12T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2021-06-20T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T11:44:07","slug":"water-to-winethe-cellar-of-bacchus-speicher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/12\/water-to-winethe-cellar-of-bacchus-speicher\/","title":{"rendered":"Water to Wine: The Cellar of Bacchus Speicher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Wine is sunlight, held together by water&#8221; &#8211; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Galileo Galilei<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antonie and Andreas Pietsch are cultivators. &nbsp;Soil embedded under rugged fingernails, skin bronzed by the outdoors and cheeks rosy from external elements. &nbsp;Like the 2.2 hectares of gnarled vines the couple tends and the liquid they produce, Antonie and Andreas aren\u2019t trying to disguise themselves or their ruby and golden tinged libations as anything other than what they are: simple and good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-551 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG-0545-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pietschs have restored an abandoned crumbling water reservoir, turning it into a wine cellar storing thousands of bottles&nbsp;<\/span>of M\u00fcller-Thurgau, Riesling and Sp\u00e4tburgunder bearing their label.&nbsp; Attached to the cellar is a tasting room complete with a cosy fireplace and communal style tables.&nbsp; The family dog happily lounges across concrete flooring.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sitting among the trees, forest and stone water tower of Bacchus Speicher you\u2019re bound to sense the realm of something magical. A lovely evening is all but guaranteed under the stars on a terrace overlooking vineyards stretching towards Mainz. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-552 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG-0542-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For generations this land has gifted the community with liquid nourishment, if not from water then from wine. Prepare to be enchanted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/12\/maronen-suppe-chestnut-soup\/\">*Click here for a recipe using one of their wines*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bacchusspeicher.de\/index.html\"><strong>Weingut Bacchus Speicher<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>G\u00e4nssaalweg 25<\/p>\n<p>55246 Wiebaden Mz-Kostheim<\/p>\n<p>Tel 061342989589<\/p>\n<p>Email: kontakt@bacchusspeicher.de<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;Wine is sunlight, held together by water&#8221; &#8211; Galileo Galilei &nbsp; Antonie and Andreas Pietsch are cultivators. &nbsp;Soil embedded under rugged fingernails, skin bronzed by the outdoors and cheeks rosy from external elements. &nbsp;Like the 2.2 hectares of gnarled vines the couple tends and&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/12\/water-to-winethe-cellar-of-bacchus-speicher\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,7,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unveilingwiesbaden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}