Phoenix, 21.00
The journey leads to Lake Geneva in the wine-growing region of Lavaux. It is famous for its Chasselas wine. New grape varieties are being developed to adapt to climate change and changing tastes.
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hr-television, 12.25 p.m.
In addition to his own business, Thomas Stickler now has an obligation to Claudia's winery, because Paul, who is now the heir, is in the worst possible mental shape.
3sat, 15.00
On his foray through Europe, Lojze Wieser and Martin Traxl explore south-eastern Styria, where they find a unique wealth of natural and cultural landscapes. The fertile volcanic soil offers optimal conditions for viticulture, elderberry plantations and the almost forgotten orchard meadows where old apple varieties are cultivated.
arte, 3.45 p.m.
It was the Romans who brought vines to the Moselle.
SWR Television, 4.30 p.m.
Ulla Bernhard-Räder - winemaker and herb lover in Rheinhessen The hill country of Rheinhessen is home to winemaker Ulla Bernhard-Räder. She runs a family winery with her husband Rüdiger and son Philipp. Organic wines are a new mainstay. Ulla organises tastings and develops ideas to give wine lovers a look behind the scenes of the winery. The walled farm garden is Ulla's hobbyhorse and an enchanted place to relax. The colours and also the scent and taste of herbs and flowers fascinate the 54-year-old.
3sat, 5.35 a.m.
The province in the south-east of Austria has a diverse landscape. The soil there is fertile, wine, apples and pumpkins thrive.
ZDF neo, 5.35 a.m.
It's a sensation in the Baltic Sea. Following a tip from a fisherman, amateur divers venture to an unknown wreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. In the depths, however, they do not discover the treasures they had hoped for, but only ancient bottles filled with what seems to have been undrinkable champagne for a long time. But then it turns out that each bottle is worth more than 10,000 euros. Surprisingly, the noble drop from the depths has held up superbly and still tingles deliciously. "Terra Xpress" tests whether storing champagne and wine under water can even be better than the traditional methods used so far in cellars.
SWR Television, 6.45 p.m.
The Naheweinstraße was launched in 1971. It had role models such as the German Wine Route, which had already been founded in the Third Reich, and the Baden Wine Route, which was established in 1954. They were and are all projects to promote viticulture and tourism. But in contrast to the German Wine Route, the Nahe Wine Route did not really catch on. After euphoric beginnings, the project fizzled out. But the Nahe region is now becoming better known among wine lovers. Viticulture benefits from a mild climate and extremely diverse soils, and the landscape offers spectacular panoramas. Spa towns like Bad Kreuznach and Bad Sobernheim have long attracted recreation-seekers to the area, who explore the charming landscapes of the Naheland from the healing springs.
3sat, 15.40
At the beginning of her journey Wasiliki Goutziomitros helps a vintner with the grape harvest.
arte, 3.50 p.m.
Along with language, the Romans also introduced wine to Gaul. The wine history of the Corbières region began when the first vines were planted by the Romans in 125 BC. The Via Aquitania led through the vineyards of Château Coulon and Château Veredus today. Even then, wine was transported between Narbonne and Toulouse in large amphorae. Even today, shards of earthen wine jugs can be seen. The programme is also available online from 04/02 to 11/02 on the ARTE internet portal.
3sat, 11.40 a.m.
On his foray through Europe, Lojze Wieser and Martin Traxl explore south-eastern Styria, where they find a unique wealth of natural and cultural landscapes. The fertile volcanic soil offers optimal conditions for viticulture, elderberry plantations and the almost forgotten orchard meadows where old apple varieties are cultivated.
NDR Television, 2.15 p.m.
Föhr is considered the green island in the North Frisian Wadden Sea. Lenz Roeloffs takes advantage of one effect of climate change. He grows wine on Föhr. The 21-year-old has learned the winemaking trade and cultivates a two-hectare vineyard. The wine is so successful that the area under cultivation is soon to be enlarged.
hr-television, 9.00 p.m.
"A convent is a great talent shed. You discover things about yourself that you had no idea about before." This is what Sister Thekla says, who first learned the profession of winemaker at the St. Hildegard convent in Rüdesheim - because it was needed. The monastery owns extensive vineyards where grapes are harvested for the monastery's own white and red wine. Sister Thekla also walks through the vineyard with groups of visitors. Viticulture, like the monastery shop, the goldsmiths or the ceramics workshops, is a separate branch of the economy that finances monastic life in Rüdesheim.
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ANIXE, 5.50 p.m.
The well-known TV chef Johann Lafer goes on a journey of discovery with Anixe to his beautiful homeland - Styria. There he travels through "the green heart of Austria" and explores the advantages of the region. The wonderful wine country impresses the chef with its beauty.
ZDF, 4.10 p.m.
Wine merchant Maximilian Kreuzeder is found beaten to death in his wine cellar. But it is not only the dead man who poses a mystery, but also a missing bottle of wine from 1876, which is allegedly worth several 10,000 euros. A theft in which Kreuzeder got in the way of the perpetrator? A first suspicion falls on the competitor Paul Wetterstein, who also runs a wine trade and from whom Kreuzeder snatched away more and more customers. Finally, the missing wine bottle is found in Paul Wetterstein's wine cellar of all places.
SWR Television, 2.15 p.m.
The Valais, Switzerland's sunniest region, shows its most beautiful side. Before Stalden, the steepest section of the Glacier Express begins with 125 per mille. A little less per mille is served here in slanted glasses on the train - Heidawein. The glasses are slanted so that they stand up straight on the table during a steep mountain journey. The wine, by the way, comes from the area. Above the track, near Visperterminen, is the highest vineyard north of the main Alpine ridge at an altitude of 1,150 metres. The wine tastes fruity and has it all. Up to 14 percent alcohol is not uncommon. Heida wine is therefore also called "leg-breaker".
3sat, 4.15 p.m.
Thanks to constant ash rains, the slopes of Mount Etna are among the most fertile in all of Italy. That is why the inhabitants of Catania accept the danger and grow the best oranges and excellent wine there.
3sat, 5.45 pm
The landscape of the Canary Island Lanzarote is marked by volcanic cylinders that bear witness to the battle between fire and water. Wind and ash have made the land extremely fertile. But it is not easy to farm. The excellent wines are proof of how resilient man and nature are.
3sat, 10.00 a.m.
Three different regions comprise the wine country of Styria: "Paradise on the Border", "Styrian Tuscany" and "Rebenland" are the names of the attempts to find apt descriptions. A must for every visitor to the Styrian hill country is a trip along the South Styrian Wine Road. Ernst A. Grandits guides you through Styria along the oldest and most famous of all Styrian wine roads and introduces wine varieties and growing areas. Bizarre cliffs characterise the landscape of south-eastern Styria. They originate from extinct volcanoes, and this is a blessing for the wines. This, reinforced by the cool climate, gives them their unmistakable spiciness and aroma. Western Styria is considered the most idiosyncratic wine-growing region in Austria, where the most idiosyncratic wine also thrives. The 430 hectares of vineyards are predominantly planted with the grape variety "Blauer Wildbacher". This variety is exclusively used for Schilcher. In Graz and Vienna, the former farmer's drink experienced a remarkable career to become a cult wine.
3sat, 10.40 a.m.
Wachau, Burgenland, Weinviertel, Southern Styria, Vienna and the Thermenregion: Austria's great wine-growing regions cultivate their cultural wine tradition. From the growth of the vines and grapes to the work of the winegrowers with the ripening wine to the diverse small animal and plant life in the vineyards and cellars: the film shows Austria's wine culture in the course of the seasons.
hr-television, 12.35 p.m.
"Der Winzerkönig" and his family face exciting but also dramatic times in their supposed winegrowing idyll on Lake Neusiedl. It is above all the unexpected challenges that suddenly and violently arise, the attacks of the envious, the resistance that arises and the serious decisions that "Winzerkönig" Thomas Stickler, played by audience favourite Harald Krassnitzer, cannot avoid.
NDR Television, 7.35 p.m.
The Douro flows through the north of Portugal and flows into the Atlantic Ocean at Porto. The Douro Valley is the oldest protected wine-growing region in the world and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001. Only wine grown here can be called port.
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ZDF, 1.45 p.m.
Hannah Powell, an ambitious winemaker who has lived in France for a long time, is given the opportunity of a lifetime: she is to revamp a vineyard in her native southern England.
hr-television, 4.45 p.m.
It is not only wine that matures in the cellars below ground in the Rheingau. In a 300-year-old vaulted cellar at Schloss Reinhardshausen, the smell is of something quite different: The Rheingau affineur is at work here. Cheese master Reiner Wechs refines the finest cheeses here. The Rheingau Round, the Rheingau Cistercian Cheese, the Rheintaler and many more mature in the beautiful cellar - delicious with Rheingau wine. At Vaux Castle, it's all about the sparkling pleasure, the best that wine can become. That's how Count Plettenberg, the director of the sparkling wine manufactory, sees it. At an event of the Rheingau Gourmet Festival, he grants a look into the cellars and explains how the sparkling drink is made. During the menu that follows, guests can experience how well sparkling wine goes with food.
ANIXE, 1.20 p.m.
Actor Falk-Willy Wild explores traditional villages, idyllic vineyards, chapels decorated with frescoes, remote monasteries, ancient churches. Of course, wine tasting at one of the most famous wineries, Zambartas, is not forgotten.
3sat, 15.30
Italy offers many places with dreamlike landscapes - some of them are visited by "Sehnsuchtsland Italien". Those who love the mountains, the sea and good food are in good hands in Friuli and Veneto. Stops on the tour include the border region around Sauris, the provincial capital of Udine in the Friuli region, the vineyards around Treviso, the famous ham factories in San Daniele and finally the region's coast with the port city of Trieste and Miramare Castle. Further south, towards Treviso, are the vineyards where the grapes for Prosecco and Grappa grow. If you are here in early winter, you can look over the shoulders of the grappa distillers.
Bavarian Television, 3.30 p.m.
3sat, 5.00 p.m.
The north of Portugal and the Costa Verde are considered the "Garden of Portugal" - with romantic mountain landscapes, lush meadows and always vineyards. The grapes for Portugal's most famous wine grow in the river valleys of the Douro.
hr-television, 12.30 p.m.
3sat, 2.55 p.m.
The banks of the Tagliamento are ideal breeding grounds for wine. Especially in the last decades there have been efforts in Friuli to revive the diversity of autochthonous grape varieties and to give many wine varieties that had fallen into oblivion a new future, for example by the winegrower Emilio Bulfon.
hr-television, 4.30 p.m.
The final of the "Lecker aufs Land" cooking competition takes place at the home of winemaker Christine Huff. The 29-year-old runs a vineyard with her parents and husband Jeremy near Mainz. There is a lot for the family to do in the steep vineyards on the Rhine. The graduate winemaker focuses on independent, high-quality wines and appreciates the variety that the small vineyard offers her. Her husband Jeremy keeps a flock of sheep, as he is a sheep farmer and comes from New Zealand. After a longer stay in Germany, he actually wanted to go back, but because his father has vineyards of his own, he added a few weeks at a vineyard in Rheinhessen without further ado. That's where he met Christine and stayed.
ARD-alpha, 9.00 p.m.
This documentary from 1961 is about wine, its cultivation and refinement, vine breeding and the cultural history of wine. This cultural history is shown during a visit to the "Wine Museum" in the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer. The film ends with a short introduction to the "science" of the right wine glass. Why does the same wine taste full-bodied from one glass and flat from another? In this documentary from 1961, author and presenter Karl Grösch invites the viewer to first join him on the trail of a winemaker's working year. Work in the vineyard begins right after the snow melts in February. And because this film comes from long ago, when farmers fertilise their vineyards, they still bring the manure there with ox teams. Karl Grösch notes that the manure for this is not cheap nowadays and is hard to come by.
arte, 7.30 p.m.
The source of the Moselle lies in the southern Vosges, whose dense forests inspired a world-famous theatre. Its sun-drenched slate slopes are home to one of the steepest vineyards in the world - the infamous Calmont. Along its 544 kilometres, the Moselle shapes a centuries-old cultural landscape and people whose fates have been firmly linked to it for generations. "360° Geo Reportage" visits fairies and elves, climbs into gigantic power station turbines and flies over the steep Calmont. Kilian Franzen is one of those young and creative winemakers on the Moselle. His vineyards, located in the steep Calmont, have tradition. The slate soils typical of the Moselle, the steep slopes protected from sun and weather, offer the best conditions for winegrowing. The programme is also available online from 17/02 to 19/03 on the ARTE internet portal.
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Bavarian Television, 3.30 p.m.
hr-fernsehen, 6.50 p.m.
It has been rumoured in France for a long time: Bordeaux is a serious competitor for Paris. It produced the philosophers Montaigne and Montesquieu, its architecture is a prime example of classicism, and Bordeaux is the world capital of wine. A visit to the wine museum "Cité du Vin" is a must. "service: reisen" explores the city the French way with a restored 2CV lady in Charleston look. Its owner, Martine Marcheras, guides you through the city on the Garonne in a charming way. Only an hour's drive away, always heading southwest, is the Cap Ferret peninsula with its colourful settlements of oyster farmers. If you like to slurp oysters, this is the place to be. Only here is paté served with them. Away from the coast, we head into the heart of the Bordelais to Saint Émilion. Here, too, wine is the elixir of life. In September, the Jurade, the wine brotherhood, gives permission for the grape harvest - a reason to celebrate. It's a huge spectacle that enchants not only wine lovers.
ZDFinfo, 12.45 p.m.
Thieves harvest an entire vineyard overnight. Estimated loss: 15,000 euros. Professional gangs are also on the loose in orchards. Farmers and police hunt down the culprits.
SWR Television, 3.15 p.m.
In Saarland, Heike Greis meets Isabel von Oppel today. Together with an old vineyard in Perl-Nennig, Mrs von Oppel acquired a historic wine barrel. Wood craftsman Jan Knopp transforms the barrel into a beautifully shaped everyday object.
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SWR Television, 6.15 p.m.
Besigheim has one of the most beautiful medieval town centres in the southwest. Not far away, the imposing vineyards with their typical natural stone walls stretch like a ribbon along the steep slopes. Chances are good to see Reinhold Reuschle renovating all the walls in his vineyards. The pensioner has given himself five years to do it. Those who do not shy away from the heights will experience breathtaking views in the rock labyrinth of the imposing rock gardens, also known as the Swabian Dolomites. In the Felsengarten cellar just below, you can learn a lot about the winegrowing culture in the Neckar valley over a good glass of wine.
hr-television, 12.30 p.m.
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SWR Television, 9.15 a.m.
The centre of the Holy Roman Empire, a corner at the end of the world, a place of longing without borders - 1,000 years of history shape the landscape and people of the "Swabian Sea" - Lake Constance. A smuggling trip by two young men across the lake is revolutionary: they bring the newly bred and hardy Müller-Thurgau grape from neighbouring Switzerland. It finally helps winegrowing on Lake Constance to gain acceptance: the Lake Constance wines that were considered acid become quality wines that are also enjoyed outside the region. A first winegrowers' cooperative is founded, and the prices now allow the winegrowers to make a better living.
ANIXE, 21.00
In the southernmost region of Spain, Anixe accompanies a language student on her journey. In an old bodega she tastes Picasso's beloved sweet wine. The language school takes her to a wine tasting of 16 different varieties, including sweet liqueur wine.
arte, 6.35 p.m.
The Duero, called Douro in Portugal, has its origin in the Spanish province of Soria. For centuries, the river formed the disputed border between Islam and Christianity. Mighty castles bear witness to the fierce struggle on its banks. A few kilometres away, winegrowers like Susana Arroyo in the Ribeira del Duero press red wines that are appreciated by wine lovers. Across the border, the grapes from which port wine is made grow on steep slate slopes in the Douro Valley. Traditionally, Port is stored and shipped in the Atlantic port of Porto and Gaia. The programme is also available online from 25/02 to 27/03 on ARTE's internet portal.
SWR Television, 23.30
arte, 1.00 p.m.
René Lalique, who revolutionised jewellery and glass design at the end of the 19th century, came from the Champagne region. The grandson of a winegrower, he grew up in the midst of the world-famous vineyards. They inspired his creations, in which motifs such as vines, ferns, grasses, butterflies or dragonflies appear again and again.
3sat, 3 .20 p.m.
It's off to the Crete Sienese, Italy's wine cellar, where Chianti and Montepulciano come from and such noble drops as Brunello di Montalcino. At the end of the journey, the special steam train takes its passengers to Rimini on the Adriatic coast. Lonely and deserted, the beaches lie in the magical light of a sunny October day.
hr-television, 9.45 p.m.
The contracts have been signed, guarantees and loans have been secured, the sale is perfect: at the age of 67, Dieter Walz hands over his Odenwald noble distillery and sparkling wine manufactory to Max Bäumlisberger. Even though the apple harvest was sparse last year, the 27-year-old Bäumlisberger hopes to continue the business successfully. Fortunately, the old boss is still available to help and advise the young successor for some time. Bäumlisberger wants to win new customers and build up a new brand. Many things are new and surprising for the young entrepreneur.
arte, 6.35 p.m.
From its source it is not far to the Mediterranean, but the coastal mountains force the Tagus (in Portugal: Tejo) westwards to the distant Atlantic. At 1,007 kilometres, it is the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula. The Cadaval wine estate in Portugal, situated on the river, is not spared environmental risks. Countess Teresa is concerned about the water supply for the organic vines. The programme is also available online from 27/02 to 29/03 on ARTE's internet portal.
arte, 6.35 p.m.
The town of Laguardia is situated on a rocky hill high above the Ebro valley. It is the centre of the Rioja Alavesa wine region, which proudly emphasises its affiliation to the Basque Country. Winemaker Javier San Pedro Ortega wants to press unusual drops from old vines. The programme is also available online from 28/02 to 30/03 on the ARTE internet portal.