1.5-hour traditional-method Sektkellerei tour run by Ruediger Flik at the historic Marienhof in Mainz-Laubenheim. Tasting of three Sekt vintages at 19 euros per person with cellar history.
Address: Marienhofstrasse 1, 55130 Mainz-Laubenheim, Germany, Rheinhessen
Harvest-window producer visits across the VDP.Rheinhessen roster booked directly with member estates. Cellar walks, vintage tastings and vineyard work at producers including Keller, Wittmann, Battenfeld-Spanier and Gunderloch.
Robinson R44 helicopter tours from the Flugplatz Mainz-Finthen over the Rhine, the Rheinhessen vineyards, Bingen, Bacharach and the Mainz skyline. 20 to 45 minute flights bookable via Rundflug Deutschland and mydays platforms.
90 km signposted Rheinradweg from Worms via Nierstein and Oppenheim to Mainz, on a low-incline bicycle route through the Rheinterrasse. Bookable as an organised wine ride or self-guided across multiple days.
Three-hour Roter Hang vineyard walk run by Julia and Michael Voss with their 1979 Barkas Wein-Laster. Comparative tastings of two producers per varietal across the Pettenthal and Hipping slopes. Great Wine Capitals Best of Wine Tourism 2020.
Family-led Nierstein cellar walk at the Heise estate at Karolingerstrasse 15. Five-wine flight of Roter Hang Riesling, Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc and Saint Laurent with baguette and the 100-year-old Rotliegend-cellar tour.
Annual June wine presentation run by the Wein vom Roten Hang association of Nierstein producers, hosted directly on the Roter Hang Pettenthal, Hipping, Brudersberg and Oelberg vineyards with multiple-producer pours.