MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Thomas' wine cellar is in the final stages of construction. This means that his future as a winegrower is taking on a very concrete shape.
arte, 12.15 p.m.
Chinese investors are buying up wine estates and châteaux in Bordeaux, in the southwest of France, on a grand scale. They are enthusiastic about the French way of life and the red wines, which in China are synonymous with a luxurious lifestyle. But what does the Chinese shopping frenzy mean for the Bordeaux wine region? The Chinese Li Lijuan is a real estate agent, her clients are among the richest men in China and Taiwan: industrial magnates, tycoons, stockbrokers. Men who count their fortunes in billions. Li Lijuan profits from the new trend among Asian billionaires: Suddenly everyone wants to own a wine chateau in France. In China, after all, one no longer wants to be considered "nouveau riche", but wants to prove class by buying into European tradition. Li Lijuan accompanies the Taiwanese investor Chengchang Lu, who has just bought the Château Bel Air wine estate in Bordeaux, to Saint-Émilion. The medieval town is the epicentre of the Bordeaux wine region. No other place symbolises so well the combination of tradition, French lifestyle and ancient wine culture. Once a year, the official start of the wine harvest is ceremoniously announced here. On this occasion, Chengchang Lu, together with other Asians, is ceremoniously enthroned as a new member by the 800-year-old wine fraternity "La Jurade". If you look at viticulture from a purely economic point of view, you can only welcome all this. Thanks to traders and investors from the Middle Kingdom, the prices and profits of French winegrowers have exploded. No wonder: despite a slump in exports in recent years, China remains the main customer for Bordeaux wines. The programme is also available online from 31/10 to 30/11 on ARTE's internet portal.
SR Television, 6.45 p.m.
Things are happening in the wine scene on the Saar and Upper Moselle. The children of long-established winegrowing families are starting to work in the wineries and are breaking new ground. Or young people are doing their own unusual wine project. We are in the Moselle wine-growing region, the fifth largest in Germany, and nowhere are there steeper vineyards. The most expensive Rieslings come from there. The feature shows the personal stories of six young winegrowers or winegrowing families: from the family business to the salaried farm manager to the small vineyard of one's own that is managed in the evening. Two of our winemakers are new discoveries of 2018, have been awarded by the wine guides Gault & Millau and Vinum. What they all have in common is the joy of making wine. The young winemakers are mostly highly educated, have completed a winemaking degree in addition to their apprenticeship and have looked beyond their own nose, for example in South Africa or New Zealand. As a result, they are strongly networked and bring many new ideas to their home region. They help each other and exchange ideas, give each other feedback and want to make simple, natural wines, often spontaneously fermented. Far from brass bands and wine queens, they organise cross-border wine events, present themselves as modern and cosmopolitan and are thus ambassadors for the region. In addition to the feature "Old vines, young ideas", the Saarthema also features a short talk on development trends in regional wine and the upcoming super wine year 2018. Roman Bonnaire guides the programme.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
It's autumn in Rust. School starts for Anna and Thomas' first grape harvest is coming up.
WDR Television, 2.05 p.m.
Why is it so beautiful on the Rhine? Tamina Kallert and Stefan Pinnow know: they explored the most beautiful castles and palaces, enjoyed wine and good food and visited romantic towns like Rüdesheim. They met legendary figures like the Loreley, hiked the Rheinsteig, floated over vineyards, looked down on the Siebengebirge from the Drachenfels and drank Kölsch in the shadow of the cathedral. The two hosts present their personal highlights between the Rheingau and Cologne and give tips for excursions.
Wine and good food, picturesque villages and old castles, romance and conviviality - Stefan Pinnow found all this in the Rheingau. He hiked a bit on the Rheinsteig, visited spas in Wiesbaden and immersed himself in the hustle and bustle of Rüdesheim before taking a cable car ride over the vines. Eberbach Monastery near Eltville is a synthesis of history, architecture, culture and wine - and was the setting for the film "The Name of the Rose".
Tamina Kallert experienced pure romance in the Loreley Valley between Koblenz and Bingen, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. At the ruins of Rheinfels Castle, she fought a sword fight and wandered through the gloomy cellar vaults. She helped nuns with the grape harvest and met the then "Loreley", who told her the story of the legendary blonde siren.
Das Erste (ARD), 8.15 p.m.
Henriette Richter-Röhl has to deal with a series of strokes of fate as the junior boss at the "Weingut Wader": first she loses her beloved father, then there is a dispute about the inheritance and finally the traditional family business is on the verge of going out of business. Alone, she fights against the selfish interests of her relatives, played by Leslie Malton and Max von Pufendorf, and the takeover by her father's arch-enemy. A bright spot in the intrigue is a teenage heartthrob, played by Sebastian Fräsdorf, who returns home after many years abroad. The German Wine Route with Hambach Castle as a landmark provides a great backdrop for the family story.
SWR Television, 8.15 p.m.
Wine and wild animals - the Zabergäu is a small paradise near Heilbronn. It is particularly beautiful here in autumn. Like a colourful patchwork carpet of red, green and yellow, the gentle hilly landscape spreads out, shaped entirely by viticulture. Brackenheim, the heart of the region, is the largest red wine community in Germany. SWR presenter Annette Krause sets off on a wine tour. She discovers the advantages of Lemberger at the winery of the Counts Neipperg, helps with the harvest, learns a lot about the history and meets wine-loving people in wine taverns and at wine festivals in the region.
SWR Television, 7.45 a.m.
The Kaiserstuhl - a small island-like elevation in the middle of the Upper Rhine Graben, famous for good wines and sunny weather. Beneath its surface, the Kaiserstuhl hides an unusual history of its origins, which the presenters Sven Plöger and Lena Ganschow get to the bottom of.
hr-television, 12.25 p.m.
Due to a misunderstanding, David Legedy believes Paul is the father of his grandson Karoly. He breaks off all contact with the Sticklers. Thomas goes to Hungary to clarify the situation. Eventually he even succeeds in reconciling father and daughter. Paul will take care of the Hungarian vines in the future - nothing stands in the way of a successful cooperation.
hr-television, 4.45 p.m.
Nina Thomas takes a trip to the other side of the Rhine - to the "ebsch Seit", as it used to be called. That is long gone, and the Hessians on both sides enjoy visiting each other. Rheinhessen has excellent wines and many creative chefs. On a trip through the rolling hills of the vineyards, Nina Thomas visits a vintner, looks into the pots in country inns and restaurants, climbs into an old, winding wine cellar and experiences a vintner's vesper with Weck, Worscht and Woi on the red slope.
hr-television, 8.15 p.m.
From its source in Blankenheim to its mouth near Sinzig, the Ahr flows for 89 kilometres through a landscape dominated by vineyards. While Stefan Pinnow hikes south of the river on the emerging Ahrsteig, his fellow presenter Bernd Stelter is drawn to the opposite side of the Ahr: to the Red Wine Trail. Bernd Stelter introduces three young female winegrowers and takes a look around the Kloster Marienthal vineyard.
hr-television, 9.45 p.m.
The programme takes you to Hessian regions where lovely landscapes evoke the spirit of Rhine Romanticism and where cosiness and hospitality are writ large: to the Rheingau, Germany's wine chamber, and to the Taunus, which with its gently rolling and densely wooded landscape is one of the most beautiful low mountain ranges in Germany.
SWR Television, 6.00 a.m.
The Lavaux wine-growing region between Lausanne and Vevey is considered one of the most beautiful landscapes in Switzerland. The mighty rock faces of the Savoy and Vaud Alps protect it from cold winds, and Lac Léman - Lake Geneva - which is over three hundred metres deep, also provides a mild climate. As early as 100 AD, the Romans planted vines on the steep banks. In the Middle Ages, Cistercian monks began to lay out terraces in the shape of steps, fortified with masonry, thus increasing the quality and yield of the vines. It is said that three suns pamper the vines of Lavaux. The direct sunlight, the heat reflected from the lake surface and the heat stored in the stone terraces. Over the centuries, winegrowers have covered the south-facing slopes with terraces as high as the forest. In between, like nests, picturesque winegrowers' villages, their houses crowded into the smallest of spaces. Every square metre is used to grow wine. Despite the use of modern techniques, viticulture in the Lavaux is still extremely complex due to the steep slopes. To facilitate cultivation, dizzying monorails have been built to transport people and materials up to the upper terraces. The steepest slopes are those of Dézaley, which were formed by the Rhone glacier. The clay and chalky soil gives the wines - especially the Chasselas, the Gutedel - their typical taste. The Lavaux - mountains, lake, vineyards and settlements form a unique cultural landscape. This is why it was inscribed on Unesco's World Heritage List in 2007.
Saint-Emilion is one of the most romantic wine towns in the world. The small town is situated on a limestone plateau, framed by vineyards where the grapes of the famous "grands crus" grow. Over the centuries, a symbiosis of nature and man has developed in Saint-Emilion. It was the Romans who planted their first vines in this area in the 5th century and thus began to cultivate an exceptional landscape. The Benedictine monk Emilion is associated with the actual emergence of the site in the 8th century. Under the rocky plateau, he found a spring in a grotto, which he developed into the Hermitage. Emilion began to preach. Legends of his abilities to heal and perform miracles spread quickly. More and more people made pilgrimages to his hermitage and settled near him. St Emilion was administered by a chapter of the Order and a secular authority - the Conseil des Jurats - of the Jurade. In 1199, John Without Land, King of England and Duke of Aquitaine, granted the inhabitants communal rights with all their privileges and liberties. The "Jurade", once a secular government, is still active after more than 800 years, but today its whole interest is exclusively wine. In September of each year, the "Jurats" announce the grape harvest in a colourful spectacle. With Saint-Emilion, UNESCO has also declared wine a World Heritage Site. And rightly so, because Saint-Emilion stands for the perfection of wine. UNESCO has been protecting the world's most valuable natural and cultural monuments as "Heritage of Humanity" since 1972. The television series "Treasures of the World" tells about these places in impressive pictures.
MDR Television, 2.00 p.m.
In Freyburg, TV presenter Axel Bulthaupt meets a young winemaking couple who not only grow a very tasty wine, but have also converted an old natural stone house that was in danger of collapsing into a cosy inn.
Bavarian Television, 2.20 p.m.
In 1981, Würzburg, the residence and bishop's town, was listed as a World Heritage Site, and in 2004 it celebrated its 1300th anniversary. Würzburg is a city steeped in history. The many historic buildings, such as its landmark, the Marienfeste or the Residenz, are impressive. But Würzburg also has a highlight to offer for culinary connoisseurs: "Der Stein" is the largest continuous vineyard in Europe and at the same time a defining element of the cityscape.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Now the grape harvest is just around the corner. Thomas' new cellar is ready for operation and is licensed by the building authorities. Georg, in his function as mayor of Rust, cannot help but congratulate his opponent Thomas. In doing so, he notices that the most important thing, the wine press, is not yet there. Thomas informs Georg that the new press is to be delivered that same afternoon. When Georg leaves the cellar, he immediately calls Ressler, the cellar fitter, and asks him to come over. Georg puts pressure on Ressler until he gives him the press intended for Thomas for several times the price. Thomas, in turn, is told by Ressler that the press is wrong and has been delivered somewhere else.
arte, 10.40 a.m.
Bali is a tropical paradise and is considered the island of the gods. The Hindu priest Rai Budarsa was the first to succeed in cultivating wine on Bali. The grapes can be harvested three times a year on the tropical island. A blessing for the entrepreneur - but a challenge for the devout Hindu priest in view of the many religious festivals and ceremonies. Whether Rai Budarsa succeeds in the balancing act between the hard everyday life of an entrepreneur and the religious obligations of a priest is the subject of this "360° Geo Reportage". The procession for the funeral has already been waiting on the street for an hour. Hindu priest and wine merchant Rai Budarsa hastily strips off his polo shirt and Bermudas, because as the highest representative of a priestly caste, he has to preside over every ceremony in his community. When his mobile phone rings, he just manages to tighten the knot of his black sarong before answering the call. It is his cellar master Don Buchanan. He is missing bottles for the bottling of Pino de Bali, a top product of the company. And this is during the religious holidays in Bali, of all times, when the restaurants and hotels have to be supplied with the regional wine. At a run, Rai Budarsa promises to take care of it. Hastily he climbs onto the two-metre-high palanquin and the procession sets off towards the sea. There, the dead man is cremated according to the rules of Hinduism and his ashes are scattered over the waves. Even before the flames are extinguished, the phone rings again. The wine production in the village of Sanur is missing red grapes. When the ashes are carried into the sea, the priest Rai Budarsa has already said goodbye and is taking care of business as an entrepreneur. At the end of the day, Rai Budarsa has conducted a total of three ceremonies. The battery of his phone is empty, but the vintner was able to organise both the red grapes and the bottles. The next morning, he pays homage to the gods as usual. It will be a good day for the Hindu priest and entrepreneur Rai Budarsa.
hr-television, 11.35 a.m.
Nina Thomas takes a trip to the other side of the Rhine - to the "ebsch Seit", as it used to be called. That is long gone, and the Hessians on both sides enjoy visiting each other. Rheinhessen has excellent wines and many creative chefs. On a trip through the rolling hills of the vineyards, Nina Thomas visits a vintner, looks into the pots in country inns and restaurants, climbs into an old, winding wine cellar and experiences a vintner's vesper with Weck, Worscht and Woi on the red slope.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Late autumn in Rust. The wine is in the barrels. Thomas and Paul taste their first wine. Something particularly fine is developing. Peace might have returned if Mother Stickler hadn't started to renovate the inn.
3sat, 2.10 p.m.
High above the Gulf of Genoa, a chain of forgotten places and impressive landscapes stretches from the French Riviera to the hills of Tuscany: the Ligurian High Route. The rhythm of the ceaseless ascent and descent culminates in the work on the narrow wine terraces of the Cinque Terre - a distinctive cultural landscape that has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
The first wine is ready for bottling. Thomas has also found an interested wine merchant who wants to buy a few thousand bottles.
3sat, 5.00 p.m.
On the green mountain slopes of the Tróodos, wine has been growing for thousands of years and made Cyprus famous as the first commercial wine producer. More than 300 days of sunshine per year provide ideal conditions for this.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Mayor Georg Plattner returns from Brussels with four million euros in subsidies for a new marketing structure. He wants to set up a new winegrowers' association that can sell high quality at low prices. Since he misinforms Thomas Stickler about this, the latter has to refuse membership. Georg definitely does not want Thomas to gain a foothold as a winegrower in Rust - if he has not managed to do so by the time of the harvest, he now wants to prevent his rival from selling the wine to the buyer at all costs. Grand vintner and former mayor Gottfried Schnell sees this as a new devilry on Georg's part and joins the new cooperative. Georg must experience with great annoyance how his predecessor in office tactically undermines him.
ARD-alpha, 9.45 a.m.
Alcohols are an extensive group of chemical compounds that have many similarities but also great differences. The best-known alcohol is produced when wine yeast ferments the sugar in grape juice. The film takes the winemaker's wine-making process as its starting point. Pupils experiment in the laboratory, they set up a fermentation experiment and test the chemical and physical properties of different alcohols. Animated film segments illustrate the homologous series of these compounds. Experiments and real film segments show how alcohols give rise to their derivatives, how ethanol becomes ethanal or acetic acid. The esters are also derived from the alcohols; they are common flavourings in nature.
SWR Television, 6.15 p.m.
Former German Wine Queen Janina Huhn hosts the new pleasure programme about wine: in each episode, the wine expert takes a celebrity guest to a wine region and lets him or her experience culinary adventures there.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Right at the beginning of his second season as a winegrower, Thomas suffers a severe setback. A large part of the harvest fails to materialise due to severe frost. When the powerful winegrowers' cooperative led by mayor and winemaker Georg Plattner, Thomas' brother-in-law and arch-enemy, pushes the wine prices down, Thomas Stickler's calculations don't add up and he is faced with a mountain of debt.
Das Erste (ARD), 8.15 p.m.
Henriette Richter-Röhl alias Anne Wader cannot leave the "Winery Wader" behind so easily: When the Palatinate organic vintner learns of difficulties in the family business, she immediately rushes to help. The heavy suspicion of deliberately driving the tradition-rich winery into ruin falls on her successor and even on relatives. Moreover, the decades-long conflict between the two Wader patriarchs weighs on the family clan like an evil curse. When Anne uncovers a secret about her late father, her Uncle Bruno's family breaks up. The boundless rage of her cousin, played by Kyra Sophia Kahre, also has severe consequences for Anne. In the second film of the family saga, the new life the organic winegrower is building threatens to collapse again.
hr-television, 12.15 p.m.
Although not yet fully recovered, Georg is released from the rehab clinic early and resumes work on his vineyard, no thanks to Thomas and Paul.
SWR Television, 6.05 p.m.
A gem in the Southern Palatinate is how the inhabitants describe their village of Niederotterbach. Only a few kilometres from Bad Bergzabern and the French border, the village lies at the very south-eastern end of the Südliche Weinstraße district. Niederotterbach currently has 330 inhabitants and is characterised by agriculture and viticulture. The beautiful village is always worth a visit. Many holiday flats invite you to stay.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
The financial situation of "Stickler & Stickler" is very bad. After a conversation with his fatherly friend and mentor, the great winemaker Gottfried Schnell, Thomas regains hope: much like the former manager, he decides on necessary restructuring in the company, but without informing his son and partner Paul. A discussion between father and son brings Thomas and Paul back on the same page: with the help of EU subsidies, they want to clear the old vines and plant new varieties of wine instead. Once again, mayor Georg Plattner plots against the Sticklers' plans in the local council. He is able to win over the notary Petra Thaler, who has still not got over the fact that Thomas has chosen Claudia instead of her. The Sticklers' application is rejected - even though Paul has already started clearing the sticks.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Thomas Stickler is worried: he urgently needs to buy more grapes to compensate for the loss of harvest. Under the seal of secrecy, Edina gives him the address of a winegrower from her home country. Thomas also needs 80,000 euros to keep the farm going. Mother Hermine offers him the sum as an interest-free loan, but Thomas, out of pride, does not want to accept the money for the time being.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Georg Plattner is in a coma after his heart attack. According to the doctors, Andrea cannot hope for a quick recovery. Since she cannot run the winery alone, she asks her brother Thomas for help. Together with Grand Winemaker Schnell and Claudia's father Blasius Schmalzl, he spontaneously takes over the management of the Plattner estate. Thomas has to discover that the Hungarian winegrower recommended to him by Edina is her father David Legedy. He goes to Hungary anyway and is thrilled by the vines - it is exactly what he is missing after the frost. But Thomas has qualms about cooperating with Legedy as long as the latter is on bad terms with his daughter Edina.
arte, 6.35 p.m.
Russia's largest sparkling wine cellar is located in Abrau Durso. In kilometre-long tunnels "Shampanskoye", the Russian version of champagne, is stored there.
arte, 7.40 p.m.
The winegrowers on Crete are cultivating their old vines again. In the 1970s they had torn them all out in favour of Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot and Syrah - now they want to shine again on the international market through independence, as heirs to a 3,500-year-old tradition of Cretan viticulture. Maria Tamiolaki's father is a pioneer of the old Cretan vines. He no longer wanted to press copies of Bordeaux wines or Retsina, whose resin disguises the true taste. He planted old Cretan vines again, Vidiano, Mandilari, Kotsifali, which already existed in King Minos' time, 3,500 years ago. Tamiolaki's daughter Maria and her husband Dimitri continue their father's legacy on 50 hectares of cultivated land. She studied viticulture in Bordeaux and met her husband there. The grapes ripen in a breathtakingly beautiful location: steep, barren mountains, spoiled by the sun, small fields, a lot of manual labour - Cretan wine is organic farming. Archaeologists recently recovered an amphora of Cretan wine from an Egyptian ship that sank 3,000 years ago - pressed from the vines that are becoming en vogue again today. Crete's new wine is still an insider's tip: the Tamiolakis produce 50,000 bottles a year, but plan to double that soon.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Claudia doesn't know where her head is as she prepares for her first seminar at the wine academy. The workload for Thomas and Paul also continues to increase: In addition to their own business, they have to take care of Georg Plattner's vineyards.
3sat, 4.20 pm
The canalisation of the Saar in the 19th and 20th centuries has changed the landscape, and some of the deepest locks in Germany can now be found in its lower reaches. This is also the home of winegrower Christian Ebert. Industrial use and ecological viticulture may seem like a contradiction in many places, but not so on the Saar. Even steep slope expert Ebert has nothing against the cargo ships chugging along in front of his vineyards, on the contrary: the development into a major shipping route ensures an evenly wide expanse of water. This moderates the temperatures in winter. Less susceptible to frost and with a more pleasant acidity of their wines, the canalisation of the Saar has been a blessing for the winegrowers here.
3sat, 5.00 p.m.
Between the source at Schwenninger Moos and the mouth of the river, the film team meets sorority girls in Tübingen with an official punting diploma as well as the oldest wine harvesting crew in Stuttgart, who are still clambering around on steep slopes in the middle of the pulsating capital of the Swabians at the age of well over 60.
3sat, 5.45 pm
The film introduces a real princess who, after a heavy blow of fate, took over the family business on the steepest vineyard of the Main.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Paul will take care of the Hungarian vines in the future - nothing stands in the way of a successful cooperation.
hr-television, 8.15 p.m.
In France, it has long been rumoured that Bordeaux is a serious rival to Paris. Bordeaux produced the philosophers Michel de 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. The film author Christine Seemann turns her back on the coast and drives eastwards into the heart of the Bordelais to Saint Émilion. The gently hilly wine-growing region was the first to be put on the UNESCO World Heritage List. For Saint Émilion is a synthesis of the arts, as it nestles picturesquely into the landscape, full of enchanted corners and architectural treasures. And wine is the elixir of life around which everything revolves. In September, the Jurade, the wine fraternity, gives permission for the grape harvest - a reason to celebrate. An emotional spectacle that enchants not only wine lovers.
SWR Television, 8.15 p.m.
Many important poets have visited the romantic Rhine and immortalised it in verse, telling stories, for example, about old Bacharach and a sorceress who is said to have lived within the walls of the town. What do these old stories say today? How can this cultural heritage be encountered when travelling along the Rhine to drink Rhine wine and enjoy half-timbered romanticism?
hr-television, 12.20 p.m.
Georg Plattner finally takes the helm again and rather rudely dismisses Jakob Ressler as interim mayor. Back in office, he harasses Thomas Stickler wherever he can. He calls him an organic farmer, has his vines sprayed with chemicals at night and then sends the Federal Office of Viticulture after him.
hr-television, 3.00 p.m.
In France, it has long been rumoured that Bordeaux is a serious rival to Paris. Bordeaux produced the philosophers Michel de 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. The film author Christine Seemann turns her back on the coast and drives eastwards into the heart of the Bordelais to Saint Émilion. The gently hilly wine-growing region was the first to be put on the UNESCO World Heritage List. For Saint Émilion is a synthesis of the arts, as it nestles picturesquely into the landscape, full of enchanted corners and architectural treasures. And wine is the elixir of life around which everything revolves. In September, the Jurade, the wine fraternity, gives permission for the grape harvest - a reason to celebrate. An emotional spectacle that enchants not only wine lovers.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Although not yet fully recovered, Georg allows himself to be released from the rehab clinic early and resumes work on his vineyard, no thanks to Thomas and Paul. Gritting her teeth, Andrea has to care for her weak husband in the house they share. Meanwhile, Paul takes care of the Hungarian vines.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Georg Plattner finally takes the helm again and rather rudely dismisses Jakob Ressler as interim mayor. Back in office, he harasses Thomas Stickler wherever he can. He calls him an organic farmer to his detriment, has his vines sprayed with chemicals at night and then sends the Federal Office of Viticulture after him. For Andrea, this is the end of her consideration: she finally files for divorce - where she is observed by community doctor Eibecker in an ambiguous situation with her good friend Jakob Ressler.
arte, 7.15 a.m.
Bali is a tropical paradise and is considered the island of the gods. The Hindu priest Rai Budarsa was the first to succeed in cultivating wine on Bali. The grapes can be harvested three times a year on the tropical island. A blessing for the entrepreneur - but a challenge for the devout Hindu priest in view of the many religious festivals and ceremonies. Whether Rai Budarsa succeeds in the balancing act between the hard everyday life of an entrepreneur and the religious obligations of a priest is the subject of this "360° Geo Reportage". The procession for the funeral has already been waiting on the street for an hour. Hindu priest and wine merchant Rai Budarsa hastily strips off his polo shirt and Bermudas, because as the highest representative of a priestly caste, he has to preside over every ceremony in his community. When his mobile phone rings, he just manages to tighten the knot of his black sarong before answering the call. It is his cellar master Don Buchanan. He is missing bottles for the bottling of Pino de Bali, a top product of the company. And this is during the religious holidays in Bali, of all times, when the restaurants and hotels have to be supplied with the regional wine. At a run, Rai Budarsa promises to take care of it. Hastily he climbs onto the two-metre-high palanquin and the procession sets off towards the sea. There, the dead man is cremated according to the rules of Hinduism and his ashes are scattered over the waves. Before the flames are extinguished, the phone rings again. The wine production in the village of Sanur is missing red grapes. When the ashes are carried into the sea, the priest Rai Budarsa has already said goodbye and is taking care of business as an entrepreneur. By the end of the day, Rai Budarsa has conducted a total of three ceremonies. The battery of his phone is empty, but the vintner was able to organise both the red grapes and the bottles. The next morning, he pays homage to the gods as usual. It will be a good day for the Hindu priest and entrepreneur Rai Budarsa.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Due to the warm weather, the harvest in Hungary and Rust has to start almost at the same time.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Georg Plattner wants to push ahead quickly with the realisation of the conference centre at Bergham Castle and finance it primarily with tax money. In exchange, important social projects are to be postponed. When Thomas realises that Georg is also pressuring friendly winegrowers to buy their fields cheaply for the planned golf course, it is clear to him that a citizens' initiative must be founded to stop the mayor's megalomania.
3sat, 3 .35 p.m.
The gold of today in New Zealand is wine, as winemaker Nick Mills tells us. Pinot Noir is the most famous grape variety from the southernmost of all vineyards, which has gained international recognition. Just as ships full of hopeful gold miners used to come to New Zealand, today they set off in the opposite direction, laden with wine.
SWR Television, 6.15 p.m.
The former German Wine Queen Janina Huhn hosts the new pleasure programme about wine: In each episode, the wine expert takes a celebrity guest to a wine region and lets him or her experience culinary adventures there.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Mayor Plattner doesn't have long to wait for a well-aimed counter-attack: on his initiative, "Stickler & Stickler" is deprived of an important subsidy and suddenly Thomas is completely up in the air financially.
Bavarian Television, 7.30 p.m.
Sheltered by the Steigerwald forest, the small wine villages of Iphofen, Mainbernheim and Rödelsee nestle around the legendary Celtic Swan River. Here, a small village museum and the Löwenhof inn with its crispy Schäufele (pork) tempt visitors to stop for a bite to eat.
hr-television, 12.05 p.m.
Due to the warm weather, the harvest in Hungary and Rust has to start almost simultaneously.
hr-television, 4.00 p.m.
Even when the last work in the vineyards is done in December, the Rheingau is not in hibernation. This is 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 Rheigau 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.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
hr-television, 12.05 p.m.
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 Rheigau 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.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
Thomas Stickler returns to his hometown of Rust and his vineyard after his one-year stay in Bulgaria, where he set up a new production site for a German company.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
The big wine festival is coming up in Rust. Georg Plattner, head of the winegrowers' cooperative, has organised it and, as if by chance, overlooked Thomas Stickler. Thomas sees this as a clearly planned act of malice against him and his business. So he prepares to take countermeasures and organises his own wine tasting with a tombola and other events.
MDR Television, 8.55 a.m.
hr-television, 8.15 p.m.
Istria - this part of Croatia is not only popular with summer holidaymakers but also with gourmet lovers. The peninsula with its rocky coasts in the west, lively bathing bays in the east and a hinterland that could hardly be more fertile is one of the country's top gourmet regions for good reason: the finest truffles, the best olive oil and renowned wines without end - what grows here meets the highest standards.
SWR Television, 8.15 p.m.
Steffen König in search of women's power on the lower Moselle. Women who know the world and love the Moselle: on the river, on the steep slopes, in the villages between Cochem and Koblenz. Whether they are drop-outs, returnees or newcomers - all of them are new starters and make their visions and life goals come true here on the Moselle: with a lot of courage, energy, desire and heart for the region. The girls from the "Russenhof" in Winningen, Rebecca Materne and Janina Schmitt, prove that it is possible to create a good winery from the slippery Moselle soil and do so very successfully!