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Wednesday, 1 December

SR Television, 6.00 a.m.

Die Ökochecker - Christmas & Winter Holiday

Something fine for Christmas dinner! Tobias Koch wants to serve organic wine, but: Is it really more environmentally friendly than conventional wine? Out in the vineyard he makes exciting discoveries.

Wednesday, 1 December

ARD-alpha, 1.30 p.m.

Tobi's city trip: Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen up close!

The best tips for eating, drinking and experiences! Together with Tobi Kämmerer, we go on a journey of discovery to Alt-Sachsenhausen, to a floating lounge with vegan wine and even deeper into one of Frankfurt's most fascinating districts. A trip for the whole family and everyone who is looking for the extraordinary.

Wednesday, 1 December

ORF III, 9.05 p.m.

Country Life
Through Southern Burgenland

Autumn in Southern Burgenland - the reddish sunlight lies flat over the reed belt, the wines ripen, the last agricultural work is done. A region that has been spoiled by the sun like hardly any other in Austria is slowly going into winter mode.

Thursday, 2 December

TLC, 6.00

Cake Boss: Buddy's Cake World

For the 90th anniversary of a "do-it-yourself" winery, as well as in memory of its founder, Buddy Valastro and his crew are asked to bake a fancy cake. Since Buddy's grandfather had made wine himself and the "Cake Boss" holds this traditional craft in high esteem, he wants to conjure up something special for client Jimmy: a red wine cake with a large bulbous wine barrel on top, which connects the winery with the founder and the family history. As Buddy ponders finishing touches and decorative elements, he gets the idea for a new hobby: he wants to produce his own wine right away, too.

Thursday, 2 December

TLC, 10.30 a.m.

Crazy Cakes

Top confectioner Bronwen Weber gets a visit today from the organiser of a wine club: he is throwing a party to celebrate a special wine tasting at which Bronwen's cake is to be the centre of attention. The baking artist's vision: a cake that pours wine from a bottle that never runs dry. Bronwen and her team don't yet know how the technical implementation will work, but the design is in place. A cake box forms the base, the pump is hidden in another one. To go with the red wine, the team makes a juicy dark chocolate cake.

Friday, 3 December

Bavarian Television, 7.30 p.m.

Country inns

How do we celebrate festivals today? How do we arrange holidays and customs? What typical dishes are served? In the series "Country Inns", viewers experience hospitality, culinary delights and holidays in a new way. His itinerary takes filmmaker Werner Teufl to country inns with hearty home cooking and gourmet cuisine.

Friday, 3 December

SWR Television, 9.00 p.m.

City + Country = Love
Six-part dating series

"Stadt + Land = Liebe" (City + Country = Love) is a dating format that is about three loves: the love between two people, the love of crafts and the love of country life. Presenter Collien Ulmen-Fernandes accompanies five cool craftsmen: a glassmaker, a carpenter, a towing contractor, an electrical engineer and a vintner. They are all looking for the great love, which they have already found in their jobs and their homes. All they are missing is the woman for life.

Winemaker Gero on a speed date with model, rapper and influencer Deimante.

SWR/sagamedia

Saturday, 4 December

ZDF neo, 12.25 p.m.

Terra X
Expedition Germany - The Legacy of the Stones

Geologist Colin Devey continues his trek through Germany. He begins in Germany's largest contiguous forest area - the Palatinate Forest. Colourful red sandstone rocks with countless castles and ruins tower above the treetops. The red sandstone is also omnipresent in the buildings of the Palatinate. Pressed from desert sand over millions of years, it is now the region's defining building material, and you can even taste it in some of the Palatinate's wines. The Palatinate Forest is bordered by the tectonically active Upper Rhine Graben, which is considered the warmest region in Germany. On his way south, Colin Devey flies over the fertile Rhine plain, framed by the Black Forest and the Vosges Mountains.

Sunday, 5 December

3sat, 6.15 a.m.

makro on tour: Wine in Transition - Between Climate and AI

Wine consumption is increasing worldwide. At the same time, the challenges for viticulture are increasing. In view of climate change, winegrowers have to find creative solutions in order to remain competitive. "makro" editor Eva Schmidt goes to the grape harvest and meets Dr Eva Vollmer, a young winemaker who founded the "Future Wines" network. Eva Schmidt also visits the wine campus in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. There, Prof. Dominik Durner shows her that artificial intelligence is also a big topic in viticulture. Although climate change is expanding winegrowing further and further north, it poses problems for classic winegrowing regions such as Rheinhessen, Rheingau or Pfalz. Dry and hot summers or heavy rains put a strain on the vines. Under the heading "climate vines", some young German winegrowers are trying to make German wine fit for the future: less monoculture, less waste of water and new climate-resistant vines, so-called Piwis. They are also breaking new ground in marketing. Online wine tastings have been booming since Corona, and the wineries will probably be guests in many living rooms even after the pandemic. Another trend is alcohol-free wines and sparkling wines. For a long time, they eked out a niche existence because they taste more like lemonade. At the wine campus in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, research is being done on how to improve this taste.

Sunday, 5 December

hr television, 10.15 a.m.

Der Winzerkönig
39-part television series, Germany/Austria 2006 - 2010

Mayor Plattner doesn't have to wait long for a well-aimed blow: On his initiative, "Stickler & Stickler" is deprived of an important subsidy, and suddenly Thomas is completely up in the air financially.

Sunday, 5 December

SWR Television, 8.15 p.m.

Dream Destinations: The Black Forest all year round

The Black Forest is protected in many places - and is changing everywhere. In view of climate change, it is important to make it fit for the future for tourism and silviculture, for economic development and nature conservation alike. In the face of climate change, an organic winegrower relies on new grape varieties - and on truffles.

Monday, 6 December

3sat, 10.15 a.m.

Mysterious Adriatic Sea

From the lagoon landscape in the northwest to the Dalmatian cliffs lined with rugged rocks in the east: wild nature is never far from culture here. Dalmatia's vineyards and olive groves are inhabited by Greek land tortoises.

Monday, 6 December

3sat, 8.15 pm

Castles and Palaces in Austria - From Southern Styria to Slovenia

Here a bishop's seat, there a regional museum - the castles and palaces from southern Styria to Slovenia are important for the cultural self-image of the border region. In the heart of the southern Styrian wine country is Seggau Castle, which for centuries served as a representative seat of the Styrian bishops and is now home to an educational and congress centre. The current bishop Wilhelm Krautwaschl still spends the summer months here; the entire complex is a true place of strength for him. In the bishop's wine cellar - one of the oldest in Europe - he tastes the mass wine from his own vineyard every year. If you venture deeper into wine country, you can't avoid Ottersbach Castle, which is already in the hands of the fifth generation of the Abel family. Today, three generations live here under one roof. As a family business, the castle is completely dedicated to romance and makes both the castle garden and many state rooms available for wedding parties and their celebrations.

Monday, 6 December

ARD-alpha, 10.45 p.m.

Campus
The Future of Agriculture - Opportunities of Digitalisation

The temptations are great: robots could one day work tirelessly from battery cycle to battery cycle in the fields. The small machines could sow, weed and destroy weeds under digital control. The robots would be so small that soil compaction would no longer be an issue. The energy and environmental balance would also be significantly better than that of large machines. Can the robots in the future do what large tractors are normally needed for? Robots could also plant grain in lines in one part of a field and sow maize with pinpoint accuracy in the other. With their help, farmers could in future be much more responsive to the nature of the soil. And they could manage the fields on a smaller scale and more according to ecological aspects. The robot counterpart in the sky is the drone, which could become the tractor of the air in the future: It can distribute capsules with beneficial insects over large fields more easily than ever before. There are already trials with drones in viticulture. Following a fixed pattern and equipped with special cameras, it flies to certain measuring points and records a kind of thermal image. This means that irrigation is only carried out when it is necessary - and only with the amount that is required. But this generates large amounts of data. The more software and apps farmers use, the more they rely on satellite-based sowing maps, the more they run the risk of becoming a glass farmer. This is because the data generated is often used for research and development - but it is also sold on. It is not only farmers who have access to high-resolution satellite images of fields. Entrepreneurs or speculators on the grain exchanges can also view the condition of fields worldwide via satellite - and thus estimate how much grain will come onto the world market before the harvest. And thus influence grain prices.

Tuesday, 7 December

ARD-alpha, 1.30 p.m.

Expedition to the homeland
Franconian Country Tour

Where the Main River makes its loops through gently rolling countryside, where Franconian wine is grown and hearty food is served, SWR presenter Annette Krause sets off on a journey of discovery for the travel report "Expedition in die Heimat". She begins her journey at the Bronnbach Monastery near Wertheim in northern Baden-Württemberg. From there she travels via Giebelstadt, Sommerhausen and Randersacker to the residential city of Würzburg. In conversations with vintners, star chefs, artists and castle owners, she explores what makes the region so special.

Tuesday, 7 December

3sat, 3 .30 p.m.

White Horses, Blue Vines - In the Home of the Lipizzaner and the Schilcher

Extensive alpine pastures, untouched river landscapes, lovely vineyards and winegrowers' houses: this is Western Styria. This is where Schilcher grows, the rosé wine made from the Blue Wildbach grape. It was Archduke Johann who had these vines cultivated on a grand scale. Only in Schilcherland, from Ligist via Stainz to Eibiswald, does the grape variety find the best soils and the right climate. The film tells the story of the winegrowers of the land who produce Schilcher every year and go new, creative ways.

Tuesday, 7 December

3sat, 10.25 p.m.

macro: Wine with an aftertaste

Germans love wine - especially when it is cheap. Almost half of all wine is now sold in discounters. Wine production and sales are a global business. The most popular imported wine from overseas is wine from South Africa. Good and cheap - that is the image. But the strong price pressure causes difficult conditions on South African wineries. Wine from the Bordeaux region is also appreciated in Germany. Germany imports about 15 million litres per year. Many French winegrowers, however, only achieve the quality they are used to with pesticides. And in Germany, too, the cultivated image of the noble, pure drop is only part of the reality.

Wednesday, 8 December

SWR Television, 2.40 p.m.

Railway Romanticism
The Reblaus Express - A Journey from the Wine Quarter to the Waldviertel

The Reblaus Express winds its way uphill through the vineyards of Retz from the Weinviertel to the Waldviertel. Vines, fields and forests alternate, a paradise for cyclists. They enjoy using the Reblaus Express, which is run by an association. In the past, wood and grain were transported here, but now they are even thinking about resuming freight traffic. At least on weekends, the idyllic railway is experiencing a renaissance, just like the Waldviertel narrow-gauge railway, which is once again attracting guests with steam trains. Here, too, the saying goes: there's life in the old dog yet.

Wednesday, 8 December

WDR Television, 9.00 p.m.

The Household Check with Yvonne Willicks
Christmas - the festival of deceptive packaging

What should not be missing at any Christmas market? The mulled wine! What's in it? And why do some varieties not even have a list of ingredients? Home economics master Yvonne Willicks talks to winemaker Marc Linden from the Sonnenberg vineyard on the Ahr. There is also a test: is there a difference between expensive and cheap mulled wine? We invited some of our "Household Check" families to the "Household Check" Christmas market to compare tastes.

Mulled wine from the vintner. Yvonne Willicks (centre) finds out how it is made and tastes at the Sonnenberg vineyard from winemakers Marc Linden and Michaela Wolff.

WDR/solisTV

Thursday, 9 December

3sat, 15.00

on the road - La Réunion
Vines, volcanoes and steep coasts

They call it "the island with 100 faces": L'Île de la Réunion, the somewhat different piece of France in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is more than just a bathing island. At the beginning of her journey, Wasiliki Goutziomitros helps a winegrower with the grape harvest.

Friday, 10 December

WDR Television, 6.15 p.m.

Of all things - mulled wine

Christmas market and mulled wine - for almost 70 percent of the people in Germany they belong inseparably together. It is estimated that around 60 to 70 million litres are sold nationwide every year. For the mulled wine stall owners, it is the main business of the year. After a year of compulsory Corona break, the pressure is particularly great this year for many to achieve as much turnover as possible in just a few weeks. Does this affect the price? What varieties are there and how do taste, quality and price differ - from the red classic to organic and vintner's mulled wine to mulled rosé? To answer these questions, reporter Sven Kroll works for a shift at a traditional mulled wine stand. He meets mulled wine producers, does a taste and quality check with a sommelière and sheds light on mulled wine as a social phenomenon with a psychologist and market researcher.

Friday, 10 December

hr television, 21.00

Spain's Gold Coast
A journey from Tarragona to Barcelona

Juliane Hipp travels to Tarragona's hinterland, to the wine region El Priorat and to Sitges, a bustling holiday resort with many small shops, boutiques, galleries and studios. Not far away is the wine-growing region of Penedès, famous for the Catalan sparkling wine Cava.

Saturday, 11 December

3sat, 3 .10 p.m.

Collio - Italy's hills of delights

Collio, a fertile wine-growing region in the extreme northeast of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, captivates with its hilly landscape, charming villages and culinary specialities. A special microclimate characterises the region, which is culturally influenced by Austria, Italy and Slovenia. The wine there is excellent, the vinegar spicy and the prosciutto tender. The mutual cultural influences can also be seen in the cuisine. The word "Collio" means "hill" and is the somewhat fuzzy Italian translation of the Friulian term "I Cuei", "the hills". On the Slovenian side, the area is called "Brda", which also means "hills". It is in fact an extensive hilly area that opens gently towards the sea and includes the areas of the Colli Orientali del Friuli, the Collio Goriziano and the Slovenian Brda. For many centuries, the area belonged to the Habsburg Empire. At the court in Vienna, the Collio was also called "the fruit chamber of the monarchy". Particularly popular in the ruling houses: the juicy cherries and the fruity, fresh white wine. To this day, the Collio is synonymous with white wine. The Felluga family and some other winegrowers were the first to start quality winegrowing in the Collio. Today, the area is home to some of the most recognised white wine producers in the world. The wine-growing area is not only rich in good sites and vines, it is also home to the largest number of autochthonous wines in Italy. Picolit, for example, is considered the most precious drop among them, and the grappa made from it is also a taste experience in itself. Andrea D'Osvaldo, on the other hand, has dedicated himself to prosciutto. A special smoking process and the perfect climate result in the taste of the raw ham, which is not called the "Stradivarius of ham" for nothing. However, the area was also a heavily scarred battlefield in the two world wars, with more death and destruction than anywhere else in Italy. Then, in the middle of families and vineyards, the Iron Curtain descended, dividing the area into the Slovenian Brda and the Italian Collio.

Vintner Roberto Felluga

ZDF/ORF/GS-Film

Saturday, 11 December

hr television, 4.00 p.m.

Fine cuisine in the Rheingau

Even when the last work in the vineyards is done in December, the Rheingau is not in hibernation. That's when people celebrate and enjoy behind the walls of villas, monasteries and castles, and in a particularly refined way. In the candlelit ballroom of Schloss Vollrads, film author Nina Thomas shows dishes from the Greiffenclau family's old menu cards. There she also experiences the ice wine harvest in the middle of the night in freezing cold. In a sparkling wine cellar in Geisenheim, an entire menu is cooked to Rheingau sparkling wines. In Eberbach Monastery, there's something hearty in the tavern and lots of delicious nibbles at the opening of the Rheingau Gourmet Festival. The festival itself takes place at the Kronenschlösschen in Hattenheim: Anton Mosimann, the chef of William and Kate's wedding menus, will be cooking a gala dinner there.

Sunday, 12 December

3sat, 6.15 a.m.

macro: Wine with an aftertaste

Germans love wine. Especially when it is cheap. Almost half of all wine is now sold in discounters. Wine production and sales are a global business. The most popular imported wine from overseas is wine from South Africa. Good and cheap - that is the image. But the strong price pressure causes difficult conditions on South African wineries. Wine from Bordeaux is also appreciated in Germany. Germany imports about 15 million litres a year. Many French winegrowers, however, only achieve the quality they are used to with pesticides. And in Germany, too, the cultivated image of the noble, pure drop is only part of the reality.

Sunday, 12 December

hr television, 10.15 a.m.

The Vintner King (25)
The setback 39-part television series, Germany/Austria 2006 - 2010

The petition of the citizens' initiative is ignored by the local council and the expensive financing of the reconstruction of Bergham Castle is decided. Mayor Plattner now tries to push his projects by all means. He even threatens the Grubmüller family with expulsion from the winegrowers' cooperative if they do not sell their land in favour of the golf course.

Monday, 13 December

3sat, 2.45 p.m.

Mallorca's quiet sides
Hiking, wine and almond blossom

September is the month of the grape harvest and ideally suited for tasting the local wines, for example during a ride on the "Wine Express", a wooden train on wheels that takes visitors to the vineyard for tastings.

Tuesday, 14 December

ZDF info, 12.00 p.m.

Wine with an aftertaste
The tricks of the wine industry

Germans love wine. Especially when it is cheap. Almost half of all wine is now sold in discounters. Wine production and sales are a global business. With downsides for the environment and workers. The most popular imported wine from overseas is wine from South Africa. Good and cheap - that is its image. But the strong pressure on prices is causing untenable conditions on South African wineries. Wine from Bordeaux is also appreciated in Germany: Germany imports about 15 million litres per year. However, many French winegrowers only achieve their quality with pesticides that can still be detected in the wine. In Germany, too, the image cultivated by winegrowers of a noble, pure drop is only part of the reality. For in addition to pesticides in the vineyard, more than 50 additives may now be used in the wine cellar after the harvest. By no means all of them are harmless.

Tuesday, 14 December

ARD-alpha, 9.00 p.m.

Natural Paradise Vineyard

Whether shrew or buzzard, ant lion or genet - in the course of a year the vineyard attracts many wild animals and transforms into a natural paradise. The SWR film tells of life and survival among the vines. The settings are the wine landscapes at the Kaiserstuhl in Baden as well as in Southern France and Lower Austria. Impressive animal and nature footage shows the interaction in the vineyard ecosystem - from the sprouting of the vines in spring to the harvesting of the grapes in autumn. In spring, almost all wild animals have offspring and the young often explore the world of the vineyard in a clumsy way. Heartfelt love stories and fierce battles for survival alternate. Some animals work together in clever ways, others become treacherous opponents and develop sophisticated hunting methods. Even exotic-looking species cavort in the vineyard. The bee-eaters, for example, are strikingly colourful migratory birds that fly from Africa to the Kaiserstuhl to build nesting cavities in the vineyard terraces and raise their offspring. The animals deal with weather extremes, such as heat and thunderstorms, in very different ways. Not only during the day, but also at night there is a lot of activity between the vines. Bats hunt for moths, badgers perform their grooming. When the grape harvest begins in autumn, the wild animals don't miss the opportunity to take part. ^^

Friday, 17 December

SWR Television, 6.15 p.m.

Take a drive
Where the Wall Pepper Grows - A Journey to the Moselle Mountains

There is much to discover on and behind the slopes of the Moselle. In this episode, "Fahr mal hin" takes a look behind the scenes of a spectacular landscape. Near Reil, for example, goats cavort in a side valley. Organic winegrower Thorsten Melsheimer keeps them to protect the steep slopes from bush encroachment. Near Klüsserath, you can hike the steep Thörnischer Ritsch vineyard along old donkey trails. Even Adenauer appreciated the Riesling from this world-famous vineyard.

Saturday, 18 December

Phoenix, 6.15 a.m.

The Southwest from above
Our mountains

More than half of the landscape in the southwest consists of mountain plateaus and low mountain ranges. The discovery flight begins in the Eifel, where volcanic eruptions once piled up enormous craters. The journey leads along the vineyards of the Moselle into the Middle Rhine Valley. Up the Saar it goes into the Palatinate Forest and then into the Black Forest, the highest low mountain range in Germany. The journey ends at the Kaiserstuhl. Here, too, volcanic activity has created an idyllic low mountain range, the sunniest spot in Germany, a paradise for winegrowers.

Saturday, 18 December

NDR Television, 12.45 p.m.

World Travel
Christmas in Sweden

In northern Sweden, the weeks before Christmas are a special time for the people: Outside, temperatures drop to minus 20 degrees and the snow is higher than a metre. Then the inhabitants of the highlands prepare for Christmas. Many traditions are preserved. Because of the winter cold, people love it especially warm, cosy and homely inside. Birgitta Westin comes to the Christmas market every year. She sells a typical Swedish Christmas speciality, glögg. The Swedish mulled wine is brewed without alcohol, only with water, berries and spices. Birgitta Westin's glögg is one of the best in the country, she has won several awards. In her glögg kitchen she shows what it takes to make a real Swedish mulled wine.

Saturday, 18 December

SWR Television, 3.30 p.m.

Delicious in the Country - The Great Christmas Dinner

Christmas reunion at the winery of Beate Vollmayer, the winner of "Lecker aufs Land" 2015. The wine farmer from Hegau invites her fellow contestants to conjure up a Christmas menu together - with ingredients from the farms and her own family recipes.

Sunday, 19 December

hr television, 10.20 a.m.

The Vintner King (26)
The Offer 39-part television series, Germany/Austria 2006 - 2010

The third season with 13 new episodes about the "Winzerkönig" and his family promises exciting, but also dramatic times on Ersten: Harald Krassnitzer as winegrower Thomas Stickler will passionately continue the fight for the preservation of the family farm and give the supposed winegrower idyll on Lake Neusiedl a very special character. But it is a tragic accident that throws all plans for the future out of kilter. The attacks of envious people do the rest; and finally "The Vintner King" has to defend himself against slander and intrigues.

Sunday, 19 December

hr television, 2.45 p.m.

A Journey to Tuscany
Discoveries between Chianti and Maremma

A journey to southern Tuscany means gently rolling hills and cypress-lined paths and roads - the symbol of Tuscany. Less well known are the numerous hot springs in the Maremma, fed by Monte Amiata. The natural pools in the forest, where you can also bathe, are almost an insider tip. And you can also taste Tuscany. That goes for Chianti with its famous wines and for the Maremma and its good cheese. Tuscan cuisine thrives above all on good ingredients and thus on the wealth of small farms, which you absolutely must visit on a trip through Tuscany.

Sunday, 19 December

SWR Television (RP), 6.45 p.m.

Known in the country
Winegrowing stories from 100 years

A large part of German wine is produced in Rhineland-Palatinate. It has been a cultural asset for almost 2,000 years. Film footage from the wine-growing regions of the state has been available for more than 100 years. They show the great changes in viticulture. Back then, everything in the vineyard was hard manual labour. Whether in the steep slopes of the Moselle, the wide vineyards of Rheinhessen and the Palatinate, on the Middle Rhine or the Ahr: the pictures show what a back-breaking job the work in the vineyard was. "Known in the Land" tells of the winegrowers' plight on the Moselle in the 1920s, takes us through the wine propaganda of the 1930s to the boozy 1950s and 1960s, when wine had to be sweet. Technical progress made its way into viticulture at that time. The consequence was initially mass instead of class. The glycol scandal of the 1980s brought about a turnaround. In the meantime, German white wines have regained the good reputation they had 100 years ago.

Monday, 20 December

arte, 10.25 a.m.

GEO Reportage: France's Winegrowers
Tradition meets Passion Available online from 13/12 to 19/01

France, the land of wine: hills full of vines characterise the landscape in many regions, and the product is just as diverse. But in some places the cultivation methods have exhausted the vineyards, time and again clearing has to be done even in traditional growing areas. Some winegrowers are taking new paths, they want to turn their production around to counter the decline of wine culture - with unusual ideas, with a sense of tradition and in harmony with nature. One who is fighting against the dying of the vineyards in France is the vine grower Lilian Bérillon. He owns a nursery in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, a small community in the south of France. His profession is rather unknown, and yet it tips the scales when it comes to the survival of the plants: the quality of the vines he breeds determines the quality of the grapes that will later grow on them. "The situation is quite serious: in the past, vines were planted to last 80 to 100 years, but today they only have a lifespan of 20 to 30 years - modern viticulture bears part of the responsibility for this," says Lilian. He maintains close relationships with the winegrowers and travels to wineries all over the country to develop customised solutions. The Beaujolais wine region north of Lyon is also going through a turbulent time. The controversial quality of Beaujolais Nouveau has led an entire region into crisis. Here, Julien Merle, a young winegrower in the fifth generation, has broken with previous cultivation practices. Together with his partner Nathalie, he works in the peasant tradition: organically, without chemicals. The result is natural wines that are in vogue not only in France but all over the world. Can the "young savages" prevail on the wine market?

Lilian Bérillon is a plant breeder in the south of France: he fights against the vine dieback that threatens viticulture with the quality of the vines he has bred.

MediaKontor/Myriam Bou-saha

Monday, 20 December

Bavarian Television, 8.15 p.m.

Countrywomen's Kitchen
Carolin Meyer from Lower Franconia

In the 13th season of the BR series, seven countrywomen from seven Bavarian districts meet to get to know each other and cook for each other. The special task this year: at least one of the three courses should be a family recipe, but it can also be interpreted in a modern way. The women judge each other and at the end the overall winner is chosen. Carolin Meyer (26) is not only a trained winemaker and viticultural technician, but also the reigning Franconian Wine Queen and a member of the voluntary fire brigade in Castell. She officially took over her parents' farm in Greuth-Castell in February 2021. The Meyers' farm is not a classic winery, but a mixed farm. In addition to three hectares of wine, they grow sugar beet, wheat, cereals and sunflowers on 30 hectares. They also have orchards. From the orchard fruit, they produce noble fruit brandies - the Meyers' second mainstay. Carolin's father is the master distiller on the farm. Carolin knew even as a child that she wanted to take over the farm one day: "Sure, I was an only child. If I don't do it, who will?"

Monday, 20 December

3sat, 10.10 p.m.

3satDocumentary Time
Grand Cru

Documentary by Siegfried Ressel, Germany 2021. original version with German subtitles Demolition and new construction, while wine is pressed in replacement halls - anything seems possible in the high-price segment of French wines. Château Lynch-Bages has been in the family for generations. The old patron Jean-Michel Cazes provides insight for the first time. In a long-term observation, filmmaker Siegfried Ressel accompanies several harvests and the repositioning of a family business of international standing, which perfects the balancing act between rural winegrowing and noble event marketing in the small village of Bages. In the process, a multi-layered mosaic is laid out, consisting, among other things, of observations of the harvest workers, detailed shots of the structural progress and, again and again, atmospheric landscape shots. The powerhouse of this is Monsieur Cazes, who still remembers the beginnings after the war and with whom the director takes a short trip to a former prison camp in Lusatia, where his father was a German prisoner of war. But the Portuguese seasonal workers, the steel welders and construction workers and, last but not least, the international architects from Chien Chung Pei's New York office also complete the picture. His father, Ieoh Ming Pei, was responsible for the pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris in the 1980s. According to Jean-Michel Cazes, he too was a welcome guest at Lynch-Bages.

Arrival in modernity: The new halls of the Lynch Bages winery in 2021.

ZDF/Siegfried Ressel

Tuesday, 21 December

hr television, 9.15 a.m.

Cocktails, sparkling wine and finger food

Finger food is particularly suitable for New Year's Eve celebrations. You can eat it quickly standing up, you don't need so much crockery and it is easy to prepare. The chefs at the Sheraton Hotel at Frankfurt Airport have a lot of experience with it and show you what variations there are and how to prepare them. There is walnut bread with stuffed veal slices and aromatic oil, for example, or crêpes roulades with apple cider sauerkraut and smoked pork, as well as sweet sushi to finish. In the cocktail course, the bartender shows which ingredients and equipment are needed for good cocktails. He explains five different cocktails for you to try out. A modern cocktail is included, which you can pour with sparkling wine or champagne. And the drink that goes so well with big parties is also the subject of the champagne tasting. Everything from discount bubbly to big brand champagne to bottles costing over a hundred euros will be tried out and discussed.

Wednesday, 22 December

3sat, 12.35 p.m.

Winter in the Southwest

The wine has been harvested, the harvest is in, the trees are as bare as the fields. Everyone is in savings mode. But what happens in reality? What are the animals doing and what are the people doing? Winter in the Southwest, how was it in the past, how is it today?

Thursday, 23 December

3sat, 6.45 a.m.

Glittering lights and snow flurries
Christmas in Sweden

In northern Sweden, the weeks before Christmas are a special time for the people: Outside, temperatures drop to minus 20 degrees and the snow is higher than a metre. Then the inhabitants of the highlands prepare for Christmas. Many traditions are preserved. Because of the winter cold, people love it especially warm, cosy and homely inside. Birgitta Westin comes to the Christmas market every year. She sells a typical Swedish Christmas speciality, glögg. The Swedish mulled wine is brewed without alcohol, only with water, berries and spices. Birgitta Westin's glögg is one of the best in the country, she has won several awards. In her glögg kitchen she shows what it takes to make a real Swedish mulled wine.

Friday, 24 December

hr television, 1.45 p.m.

The Christmas Makers
Advent stories from Hesse

The one day in Advent that becomes an unforgettable experience, the day with the glow of lights, the smell of baked apples and aniseed: For such a day in Advent they give everything - the Christmas makers all over Hesse, in the Taunus, in the Rheingau, in the Wetterau, in Hanau, Fulda, in Schlitzerland, in Kassel, Frankfurt and in the Reinhardswald. A team of seven video journalists accompanied very different Christmas makers in their work through Advent: Among them is a winegrower who organises a small Christmas market in the Rheingau with his wife.

Friday, 24 December

Bavarian Television, 2.35 p.m.

Loriot - Christmas with the Hoppenstedts

Loriot's Christmas classic from 1978. Even then, the pre-Christmas stress had the Hoppenstedt family firmly in its grip. As is well known, Mrs. Hoppenstedt first has to endure a few visits from representatives. Loriot's Christmas classic in the edited version from 1997 contains the visits from the "Heinzelmann" hoover salesman and from wine salesman Blümel (Loriot) from the company "Pahlgruber und Söhne": "What do you feel on your tongue? Such a furry feeling?" - "Wrong! The Oberföhringer Vogelspinne is flowery and surprises with its fruity freshness!". Then, finally, all the lights are on, including those on the Advent wreath.

Sunday, 26 December

3sat, 12.05 p.m.

Winter in the Southwest

The grapes have been harvested, the harvest is in, the trees are as bare as the fields. Everyone is in savings mode. But what happens in reality? What are the animals doing and what are the people doing? Winter in the Southwest, how was it in the past, how is it today?

Sunday, 26 December

arte, 6.40 p.m.

At Table at Lake Balaton Available online from 25/12 to 25/01

Lake Balaton, in Hungarian "Balaton", is the largest lake in Central Europe. A popular holiday destination in summer, the locals have it to themselves in winter. Nature is kind to the region in western Hungary: the soil produces the best wines, the lake is home to pike, catfish and pike-perch, and the forests of the northern Bakony Mountains are particularly rich in game.

Monday, 27 December

hr television, 1.45 p.m.

The Vintner King (27) 39-part television series, Germany/Austria 2006 - 2010

Thomas Stickler returns to his hometown of Rust and to his vineyard after his stay in Bulgaria, where he has set up a new production site for a German company. In his absence, his son Paul had run the winery independently and excellently. But right at the first reunion there is a confrontation between father and son, because Thomas has still concluded a big deal with wine delivery from Bulgaria without informing his son. The argument ends when Paul hands his father the notice of termination - and Thomas is overwhelmed right at the start. At the same time, the former mayor and winegrower Georg Plattner arms himself against his returned arch-enemy. An important wine award is coming up, and Georg knows that his wines don't stand a chance against those of Thomas Stickler. So he comes up with a wicked plan that works out for the time being.

Tuesday, 28 December

arte, 6.55 a.m.

GEO Reportage: France's Winegrowers
Tradition meets Passion Available online from 13/12 to 19/01

France, the land of wine: hills full of vines characterise the landscape in many regions, and the product is just as diverse. But in some places the cultivation methods have exhausted the vineyards, time and again clearing has to be done even in traditional growing areas. Some winegrowers are taking new paths, they want to turn their production around to counter the decline of wine culture - with unusual ideas, with a sense of tradition and above all in harmony with nature. One who is fighting against the dying of the vineyards in France is the vine breeder Lilian Bérillon. He owns a nursery in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, a small community in the south of France. His profession is rather unknown, and yet it tips the scales when it comes to the survival of the plants: the quality of the vines he breeds determines the quality of the grapes that will later grow on them. "The situation is quite serious: in the past, vines were planted to last 80 to 100 years, but today they only have a lifespan of 20 to 30 years - modern viticulture bears part of the responsibility for this," says Lilian. The Beaujolais wine region north of Lyon is also going through a turbulent time. The controversial quality of Beaujolais Nouveau has led an entire region into crisis. Here, Julien Merle, a young winegrower in the fifth generation, has broken with previous cultivation practices. Together with his partner Nathalie, he works in the best farming tradition: organically, without chemicals. The result is young natural wines that are in vogue not only in France but all over the world. Will the "young wild ones" prevail on the wine market?

Thursday, 30 December

Bavarian Television, 1.00 p.m.

Strawanzen in Mainfranken

The "Mee", as the Lower Franconians call the Main, is Stofferl Wells' destination this time. His journey begins in Schweinfurt and takes him down the Main via Volkach and Ochsenfurt to Würzburg. Besides music, wine is not to be missed in this region. Down the Main, Stofferl Well explores the area from a culinary point of view and is given an exclusive guided tour of the centuries-old wine cellar of the Juliusspital.

Friday, 31 December

hr television, 7.50 a.m.

On the Hessian Main and Rhine

Half-timbered houses and big cities, natural and cultural landscapes: you can find it all on the Hessian river kilometres along the Main and Rhine. Seligenstadt with its charming old town, Hanau with its imposing castle, Offenbach with its long leather tradition, the Main metropolis Frankfurt with its high-rise buildings, Hochheim amid vineyards and finally the place where the Main - opposite Mainz - flows into the Rhine. Along the Rhine in the south of Hesse, nature reserves spread out, making the heart of every nature lover beat faster. The tour then passes Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, through the Rheingau region with its St. Hildegard Monastery, the tourist magnet of Rüdesheim and on to the state border at Lorchhausen - an adventure tour for all the senses.

Friday, 31 December

hr television, 6.40 p.m.

Dinner for one in Hessian
With Margit Sponheimer and Walter Flamme
Narrated by Frank Lehmann

"Same as last time, Miss Sophie?" servant Johann will ask, and Miss Sophie will answer as usual: "Same as every year, Johann!" - but this time "in Hessian". Hessischer Rundfunk has re-produced the cult sketch - close to the original and yet full of surprises. At the freshly laid birthday table in the Volkstheater Frankfurt - Liesel Christ, two audience favourites, Margit Sponheimer as Fräulein Sophie and Walter Flamme in the role of the servant Johann, enjoy themselves. Director Wolfgang Kaus has translated the jubilee celebration into Hessian. So we can look forward to seeing what delicacies Servant Johann will serve to Councillor Pommeroi, Councillor Winterhalter and Miss Sophie's other guests. We can only reveal this much: "Taunus trout" will be served and a "sweet wine to go with the trout", a very dry one, "straight from the cellar!

The programme may be changed at short notice.

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