Weinprobe in der Sonnenbrunnen-Strauße

So past week I was fortunate enough to be able to go on a wine tasting!!! ---> Amazing!!

The Freiburg-Madison Sister City Association set up a wine tasting that was only for people in our program so it was very personal and cozy. We took two trams and a bus to get there, so it was still in Freiburg very far east in a part called Freiburg-Opfingen.
Here's their website: http://www.weingut-sonnenbrunnen.de/
The man on the page is the owner of the vineyard and winery, his name is Jörg Scheel - very German. haha. He has been in business for 20 years but before that he was a kind of therapist so in the house there were tons of pictures on the walls that his patients had painted for him. It was a very rustic old building, it was very picturesque - set up all like fall, the woodwork was very old, and the building was made of stone. When you walked in there was a wood-burning fire. It really made me a bit homesick, we have one just like it in my living room at home.
We sat at two long tables and after a while started the wine tasting. It was so fun! Herr Scheel had 8 different wines to try; 4 different white wines (Freiburger Rivaner, Grauer Burgunder, Rielsing, and a Pino Noir, Blac de Noirs), a Rose (Spätburgunder Rosé), and 3 different red wines (Rotwein0Cuvee "Freiburger Bobbele", Regent Rotwein, and Spätburgunder Rotwein). I really liked the white wines, but I'm not a huge fan of the reds. They really aren't too dry here so it was still really good. During the wine tasting we got to eat bread and listen to him tell all about each wine and how he made it. It was so much fun! He even taught us how to properly taste it by swishing it around in your mouth and making a gurgling noise... apparently you need to do this so you get the real taste of the grapes. I don't know.. I tried.
At the end of the wine tasting we all just sat around in this cozy stone room and talked for a while. Then Herr Scheel brought out loads and loads of Flammkuchen. - it is some what similar to a pizza but it has a very thin crust and instead of tomato sauce it'd made with creme fresh and it had cheese and schinken on it. They just kept bringing them out I swear we must have ate 20 of them. Everyone was stuffed!! At about 9:30 we left, but not before busying tons of bottles of wine. haha.
We all walked back to the bus stop and made our way home. It was an awesome Tuesday night!