This year's Christmas outing took the AIB staff to Mayschoss, a small village situated in the Ahr Valley south of Bonn, and its surrounding vineyards. While hiking up and down beautiful snowy hills, we learned about the region's wine growing history and practices and got to taste a few samples. Afterwards, we enjoyed a hearty dinner (and more wine...) in the cellars of the world's oldest wine growers' co-op. What are we to learn out of this? "Trinken lernt der Mensch zuerst, und später erste das Essen. Drum soll er auch als guter Christ, das trinken nicht vergessen." (one of our tour guide's wisdoms!).
