To wine is an expression of human culture that can represent gods closeness to us humans and his total identification with us. The Cathedral City of tree and probably more than anywhere else in germany here one can see the close connection between catholicism and why the independent who simply needs produced someone specifically for use in the mass. Is what it was there for the it involves a lot of annual work and requires a lot of dedication or one of the leading wine producers in the mosul region its important to us to continue the tradition of wine growing and nurture this Cultural Property its our heritage our mission of. Whats the origin of the close connection between the Catholic Church and why. What makes the grapes so important in the history of christianity. The story of the grape is a thread running through the whole of biblical history beginning with noah in the book of genesis the builder of the ark is named as the 1st farmer to plant a vineyard his story culminates in she says the catholics believe is truly present in the eucharist whine. And whine and grapes the vine everything to do with wine making are mentioned more than 600 times in the Old Testament you sense that something very important. Wine influenced the lives of ordinary people in the bible it was part of everyday life inseparable from jewish and christian culture. Jacob brought it to him and he ate and he brought some wine and he drank genesis 27 verse 25 of it and is all in there since wine is associated with social life as with eating and drinking together its also connected with human relationships and im sure but sealed but. I am the vine and you are the branches if you remain in me and i knew you will bear much fruit john 15 verse 5 even today the grape this is a symbol of fertility and of a countrys prosperity but to believe is wine is also a visible and symbolic expression of gods blessings. And i dont know any other plant or any other Cultural Property that is such a powerful metaphor a new tougher go paul. On the slopes of the river mosel the heart of germanys oldest wine region the connection between church and wine is tangible even today the history of tree cathedral has always been linked to wine growing. Historical documents show that members of the archdiocese used to be released from their religious jews his cheering the great poverty and the medieval tradition of parishes and monasteries producing what is still alive and well today. The vineyards belonging to the tree archdiocese are among the most admired in germany in fact they set the benchmark for the entire muslim region. These been huge stretch of 130. 00 hecticness an area almost 3 times the size of vatican city but they havent always been misspeak and 96063. 00 large estates each of them centuries old were amalgamated the archbishops vineyard the vineyard of the diocesan seminary and the cathedral vineyard. Most of the diocese and vines are planted on the steep slopes of the mosul valley they include world famous simplicity just here walk like the consummate out and back. Its spring and theyre loosening up the soil traditional techniques sustainability and respect for the environment a core values here. As much of the work is exhausting especially in hot weather because a lot of the work is done by hand. There are many plots which attract contacts us there we have to do everything by. Traditional techniques are also used in the enormous settlements with the winds are aged in barrels. Spread out over some 30000 square meters underneath the city center these cellars house ones from the slopes of the mosul the river and the somme. Each cell is the size of 4 soccer fields no wonder your highness spec it uses a bicycle lanes extent of a kilometers becca is lord of this wind that brings hes been chief winemaker since 987. I mean ive been racing around these lanes for the past 42 years i know these sellers better than my own home. Games of so unlike many modern wineries we use traditional wooden barrels and we use the same techniques that were used 500 years ago we dont interfere with the why. Would somebody here for instance you see a barrel made in 1966. When we filled this one with the peano blank from which will later make a criminal style sparkling why. Theres only a criminal needs to mature and an old barrel so it doesnt take on the oak flavors for sort of looking only when a barrel is really old and has been primed as the wind relatively unaffected by the woods. Who is to question why now here is one of the oldest barrels we have in order. But we dont know if it was cooper to 958. Parties i know that makes it over 60 years old which is about the Life Expectancy of this kind of barrel as old fossil. Its not just the barrels that are old in another part of the cellar there are water pipes station back to roman times the 2nd century a. D. So he homerun title here we have an example of roman plumbing discovered by my predecessors in the 1960 s. When they were excavating the cellars close to go give us a lot of the pipes lead down to the tree or imperial. The romans built a large complex of thermal babs about 500 meters from here the old city of tree or or parts of it are virtually under our feet here the romans also brought wind to the mosul region scene roman wine presses have been found all the way down the mosel valley providing evidence of a wine growing tradition its very good with you thats why. The cell is a food of myths and legends like something out of a harry potter movie. Since i know form this is one of the 7 treasure chambers in our old cellar vaults. Until the 1950 s. It was a tasting room for clients. After swirling the wine around in their mouths they spat it out and to this sandstone drains we dont know who. The santa isnt useful wine tasting email. Instead it houses some intellectual treasures the archbishops very finest vintage racings. Sort of home the and here we have our iler coupe for the superb wine from 2011 because its a fruity riesling invent a fight with residual sugar it has lots of fruit flavors and a wonderful spiciness iler coop is simply a great wine for one of our in. The wine takes its name from the hill on which the vineyard is located on the famous mostly southwest face. In slope. The vineyard just sat and the sun has risen date the specific environment gives candidates the grapes it produces. Theory i look hope has a slate bedrock which is important because it stores the heat by day and radiates the warthe back to the vines at night that gives our wine a wonderful aroma. Along with its epicurean qualities wine has played a different role in history one than today were surprised that so much wine in beer was drunk in monasteries it probably has to do with the fact that water was so dangerous like a fairly today we know this was because of bacteria and. Also in the ancient world clean Drinking Water was a brit commodity beer and wine diluted with water with therefore common beverages. The bible even attributes Healing Properties to wine. For instance in the book of proverbs we read. Let beer be for those who are perishing wine for those who are in anguish proverbs 31 verse 6. In this white wine became an important cultural tradition which the archbishops of tria foster to this day though their motives are of course different. Some are in the diocesan vineyards is a busy time for Stephan Moore and hes the wine estate manager responsible for all the workers in these vineyards. Most choice yet in the end the growth period we have a lot to do our venue its a stretch from the mosul to the sar as far as wilting and this and these are war and the weather is always a major concern its our biggest worry for the weather does whatever it wants but we cant influence it is by those. Warm temperatures in march late frost in april droughts in july it hasnt rained for weeks even as work is at the mercy if extremes weather and wind blowing are often a stress test. Guys in america its true and you can see we need some rain soon on the other hand the winds have very deep roots that everythings ok for the moment or if we must watch what happens in the course of the year but right now wed be glad of a little rain. Conditions that modern wine growers consider a stream a par for the course in an ancient times the. She a graphical location of the holy lands produced a climate of hot summers and perennial drought various plagues also annihilated harvests. The vine is dried up and the fig tree is wither surely the peoples joy is withered away one verse 12. But not everything is left to chance in july the leaves are pooled in the tree it says in vineyards careful pruning is important for the vine that way it gets more sunlight. The diocesan vineyards are brown as a business so they have to make a profit and produce good returns. If an end only isnt all 10 to one growing he explains that the business is very different to what it used to be 100 years ago. The. 100 or. The dire scene vineyards are run entirely by professionals now but truckload i would if i had. I in the days when parishes in this region have their own vineyards to make wine for the masses but also to provide revenue are long gone in for. Today the tree is diocese and been yeah it is an independent private enterprise and registered company employing 33 workers. With the morning hands are alone. It looks as though 2018 is going to be a good vintage juggling balls laws i think so so a bit like the acid level stable of you are stable the only negative thing is straw. Damage and some scalding which means well have a much smaller harvest and all as well. These vineyards produce some 620000 bottles of wine each year their oldest and most traditional customers if not the biggest is the Catholic Church. One man in particular personifies the link between tree a cathedral and wine growing assistant be shipped franz yosef that he even has a grape or bowl in his coat of arms france gave it was born into a family of local wine growers and is a trained wine cooper as a theologian hes also very aware of the religious significance of wine. Celebration of the eucharist is the source of all Ecclesiastical Life without the eucharist there would be no church and without wine or no eucharist so theres an essential link between. Indeed holy. And all you have created rightly gives you praise for through your son our Lord Jesus Christ in their car by the power and working of the holy spirit you give life to all things and make them holy and you never cease to gather a people to yourself. A pure sacrifice may be offered to your name. We humbly implore you by the same spirit graciously make these gifts we have brought you for consecration. And blood of your son our Lord Jesus Christ. And we celebrate these mysteries. On the night he was himself took bread and giving you thanks he said the blessing broke the bread and gave it to his disciples saying. Take this all of you eat of it for this is my body which will be given up for you. In a similar way when supper was ended he took the chalice giving you thanks he said the blessing and gave the chalice to his disciples saying take this all of you and drink from it for this is the chalice of my blood the blood of the new and eternal covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. The Catholic Church teaches that christ is truly present in the. Consecrated bread and wine. In these and in reciting the sacrificial prayer we believe that it affects what it says thats to say a change of substance occurs and without the outward characteristics of the bread and wine changes that we can calvins are of course thats an act of faith but its the basis of every mass of the so wine is crucially important in short and the sacraments matter becomes a vessel of divine salvation. And stigma to waters of baptism of. Wine and bread in the eucharist. This isnt magic so im going to its the working of god and his spirit but its not just words not just ideas its on calls on on the we need matter that we cant touch that we cant eat and drink clean cut water in which were submerged the woman. Well there are how to have our school very very house car one preacher in the year 2 as usual status goes until the 16th century catholics mostly used red wine for the mass the color was considered especially appropriate for symbolizing the blood of christ it was gradually supplanted by white wines for practical reasons most of the wine north of the alps was white and red wine could stay in the old linens. However bishop get it has his own theory. Is governed a little out in the middle ages there were many stories of miracles where blood dripped from the consecrated bread and i assume that white wine was introduced because one didnt want to Strong Association with the blood work the fruit of the seed the. Motive or the reason the church has never regulated the color of mass wine only that it must be pure and unadulterated. It has to be choose from pressed grapes thats been fermenting you cant use any artificial substances you have to. Laws governing the production of wine in germany forbid the use of additives anyway this means that at least in theory priests in germany can buy wine for the mass at the local supermarket the bishop gave it wouldnt dream of doing such a thing he personally selects the wine for masses celebrated in tree cathedral and of course it all comes from the dial sassoon vineyards. 6 once a year and he meets up with irvin angle for a wine tasting. More of the the 1st mass is at 7 in the morning or so we have to select a fairly light wine on the 1st minute of a bar and so have an angle cant say exactly how much mass wine is consumed in a tree a diocese each year but its no longer absolutely necessary for the cathedral should be producing its own wine the diocese is not dependent on a financially. The an honor for me as with families there are certain things that one errors and one does them out of respect for the past the church as mart of society its embedded in a particular landscape of this so we can serve the regions Cultural Values if the 2 are prego. Here on the most all wine has been produced since roman tiles or i going to wine quickly its always been here and we dont question it. Through steps to spend with god the one culture here on the most of the room or in the sun attracts people from all over the region and thousands of tourists flock to the wine festivals each year even in biblical times wine was associated with celebrations and festivities. What is life to a man who is without wine it has been created to make men glad ceroc 31 verse 27. Johns gospel tells us that jesus is 1st miracle was to turn russia into wine as a wedding jesus said to the servants fill the jars with water and take it to the master of the banquet and he tasted the water that had been turned into wine john 2 verses 7 through 9. A set is lined john the baptist have often spoon why because of its alcohol content jesus on the other hand appears to have enjoyed the great he was even labeled a. Drunkard by his enemies but moderation in all things specific to. The time machine or i mean us that means one bottle fewer than the number of people resident so if theyre alone none more crowded. But thered be no wind at all without the great partners in the tree and ios isnt vineyards the harvest starts in october the long awaited rains have finally arrived the great spots be harvested immediately all the cold and damp will make them starve moldering. Time is of the essence now and the work starts very early. They work up to 10 hours a day on the steep slopes carrying up to 50 kilos on their backs this is hard work. But many of the pieces return year after year they all have a special relationship to the vineyard. At. Least some of this is not my 1st time ive been coming here for 26 years its gone from the cloud i feel old only snitched out i wouldnt want to change my job because i know everybody in the firm and theyre going to want seas for home. 25 tons of harvested each day and delivered to the wine press. Have been. Just a few kilometers away here a chance hofburg the grapes oppressed. The work requires sensitivity the grapes oppressed gently so that the bushes substances are extracted more slowly the harvest is smooth last year and the quality is very good. At least and thats because of the dries summer we had hardly any rain after below 0 temperatures in may and hail some days we had 10. It has between 40 and 45 degrees celsius it cant be helped anyway the quality of the grapes is better so we cant complain of 1st of all so. Theres a lot of work to be done before the wine ends up in both of us. The harvest is the best time of year. And life dedicated to wine growing. Here on the banks of the most on the roof or in the sol this is a sense of harmony between the people and their environment the closer relationship between wine and religion is the heritage of disco landscape. So you know. There are around 1000 different languages on the planet and yet we know very little about how human language develops. 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