Federweisser

At this time of year if you go into a German supermarket you will probably find bottles of red, white & rosé wine standing in chilled cabinets. Our local supermarket has them alongside the chilled vegetables!

These wines are the fresh current year wine filled after pressing and still in the process of fermenting. If you pick up a bottle and turn it horizontally to inspect the label, you will end up with wet trousers. The caps are not sealed so that the gases can escape. Naturally, important to transport them home standing up.

Traditionally eaten with things like onion flans in Germany. I bought myself one as a treat, mine from Italian wine. Cost less than €2 bottle but need to be drunk fairly quickly, but taste different each day as they go through the fermenting process, even the alcohol level increases.

Had been out shopping locally to show UK friends video material of our full supermarket shelves and lack of queues at petrol stations. It is almost tempting, with my German driving licence allowing me to drive a 7.5t vehicle towing a 7.5t trailer, to go to the UK and offer my skills to help out as requested by UK Government in their letter to Germans living in UK. What a joke UK has become.

With the brilliant sunny daytime weather, we were reminded it is actually autumn and had to light the sitting room wood fire this evening.