Wines from the Palatinate (image: Neustadt Tourism/tks)

Germany is, as regular readers of this blog will know, a country that I value above all for its mastery of the art of brewing beer. Well, not above everything, but at the top of the list of reasons I moved to Germany, beer is right up there next to functioning public transportation and irresistible pork products. So there’s a certain irony to the fact that my most recent excursion in Germany was to one of the country’s major wine-producing regions, the Pfalz, or Palatinate as it is called in good English usage.