Ingredients for 4 people: 1/2 l cream, 1 tbsp. sweet paprika, 12 slices of bacon (180 g), 12 slices of pork tenderloin (approx. 3 cm thick, 700 g), 2 tbsp tomato paste, pepper from the mill.
Simmer the cream and paprika in a shallow saucepan until reduced by half, add the tomato paste and pepper. Wrap the bacon around the fillets and place in a gratin dish, then pour over the hot pepper cream. Cook in a preheated oven at 225 degrees on the middle rack for 10 to 15 minutes. In addition rice and mushrooms.
Wine recommendation: Erbacher Hohenrain Riesling Kabinett trocken (winery Heinz Lebert). Or Pinot Noir "R" red wine dry (winery Lamm-Jung.) Both Eltville-Erbach).
The first vinotheque in the Rheingau
It took its time. Alternatives were developed and discussed, but one year ago it was finally time, and the result can truly be seen. The first local vinotheque in the Rheingau was opened.
More than 120 wines and sparkling wines from twenty wineries from Eltville and the districts Rauenthal, Erbach, Hattenheim and Martinsthal can be tasted here. And this without the customer being forced to buy in any way. Whoever decides to buy wine, however, is pleased to find out that all wines and sparkling wines are sold at producer prices, so one does not pay more than at the vintner's.
In an old half-timbered house with an unplastered quarry stone wall, which is characterized by a beautiful ambience, the vinotheque is located on two levels. On the ground floor, there is the sales room with tasting possibility, on the upper floor, wine accessories are presented and events take place.
The creators are Ulrike and Ulrich Bachmann. The architect from Bad Soden and the native of Kassel, who earns his bread as a lawyer in the Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs in his main job, are enthusiastic about wine. With their project of the Eltville vinotheque, they obviously succeeded in bringing wine and culture together in a way that they fertilize each other.
"We had the idea of a vinotheque with integrated tourist information years ago and continuously pursued it,
<x> Ulrich Bachmann says. About half of the customers are locals. "We are often in the newspaper with our events, so word got around". More than half of the customers come from Eltville, the others from the Rhine-Main area and from all over the world. Most of them take three to six bottles with them. "We sell far more than one thousand bottles per month and will soon reach the two-thousand mark."At a tasting of their wines in the French twin town Montrichard in the Loire valley, the vintners from Eltville had a nice success. The presented Rheingau Rieslings, but also the Pinot Noirs and even a Pinot Blanc found great resonance. Which is saying something considering the difficult status German wines still have in France.
For the Schwarzriesling from the Belz winery, which is rare in the Rheingau, to the legendary Pinot Ultra extra brut, a white-pressed Spätburgunder sparkling wine from the Barth winery, to the excellent white and red wines from Hans Lang, many top vintners are already represented with their best wines.
For the fact that some are still missing, for example Schoenborn Castle with its five hundred year old wooden barrel cellar; the Hattenheim vintner Balthasar Ress; Langwert von Simmern from Eltville, the oldest wine growing family in Germany or Reinhartshausen Castle in Erbach, Bachmann understands. "It is not for free". Self-confident and calm enough to say "We are not running after anyone there", but he is also.
Eltviller Vinothek
Ulrike and Ulrich Bachmann
Rheingauer Straße 38
65343 Eltville
Phone: 06123-601780
Fax: 06123-794835
Mobil: 0172-6642019
Email: info@eltviller-vinothek.de
Internet: www.eltviller-vinothek.de
Opening hours: Mon-Thu 4pm-7pm, Fri and Sun 12pm-7pm, Sat 10am-7pm
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from Waldemar Thomas