The grapes grown here are overwhelmingly Riesling, although in the less steep vineyards, Müller-Thurgau, Kerner and Dornfelder are also raised.

In the Douro it is grown in searing heat in steep schisty vineyards that are more rock than soil.

The landscape of Altenberg was cross-terraced recently to improve the management of the steep vineyards.

JUST over a mile east of Wiltingen, a village in the pastoral Saar River valley, a steep vineyard called the Scharzhofberg rises near the road.

Many of the best vineyards in Germany are steep vineyards overlooking rivers, where mechanisation is impossible and a lot of manual labour is needed to produce the wine.

Stevenson also notes that on the steep, terraced vineyards of Ribeira Sacra that Albariño has the potential to produce the most exciting wine.

After mountain biking through the steep vineyards or picking a few hundred kilos of grapes, book an ayurvedic massage.

The steep, Rhine-like vineyards of the Danube west of Vienna produce very pure, minerally Grüner Veltliners intended for laying down.

Take a steamboat up river to August the Strong's summer palace at Pillnitz, past some of Europe's steepest and most northerly vineyards.

The slopes, set at between 50 and 55 , are Europe's steepest vineyard terraces.