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Restaurant Mittermeier

In the busy basement enoteca, decidedly less pricey and formal than the fine-dining room upstairs, dark walnut tables are full of hip young locals; it's like being back in the 21st century. The owner, 42-year-old Christian Mittermeier, is a voluble, bearlike man who apprenticed as a butcher as a teenager, before managing a small hotel just outside of town.

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From Travel + Leisure , FEB 2009

True to his word, Mittermeier shows up the next morning, and together we drive north through pastureland and orchards brimming with apples and pears—it's no wonder the Germans call this the Romantische Strasse. Up the side of a steep ridge sits Mittermeier's winery, Tauberzell, where we try the Riesling grapes and take in the valley below ...MORE>>

– Jeff Wise Exploring Germany’s Rhine Valley

Last updated February 2009