The Mosel Monster bridge and a 6 lanes highway through the world famous Riesling vineyards NOW IN CONSTRUCTION

Hi Ryan,

here I am – the small vintner in the village of Uerzig on the Mosel, Deutschland.

I immensely enjoyed having met you and exchange brieflly our common view on todays barbarism with no shame and no respect. You helped to prevent the tragedy for Vega Sicilia. Thank you for that!

Mike Steinberger has already heard of our cry and supported our case with his article

” I`m tasting tar, traffic cones, motor oil …” A planned bridge could ruin Germany´s cherished Mosel wine region. www.slate.com/id/2227805/

With my reference I wanted to shock you with a parallel you had already protested against

and I hope I am successful. This monster construction would be comparable to something like that through Vega Sicilia, the national Spanish monument of wine heritage.

I am aware your time slots are seconds, nevertheless please do us the big favor to look at the attached protest formular of the leading German gourmet and wine magazine

Der Feinschmecker (Gourmet Magazine).

To fill it out properly may be a challenge or a puzzle but fun for everybody who understands the tragedy of this politician driven madness. The original reasoning: To bring material and troups as quickly as possible to the front in a nuclear war is – thanks God – past. Nobody needs this highway through our single site Riesling vineyards which are as valuable and beautiful, as difficult to work in the steep slopes and as difficult to pronounce like Uerziger Wuerzgarten, Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Graacher Himmelreich and Bernkastler Doktor to name a few.

Here is the link for the protest form for English speakers – left hand side at least a help to fill out the German form properly.

http://tiny.cc/7la9S

Closing date for this protest Dec 1st but if you need or want an extension I would bend over backwards to achieve such an extension or even a second wave, who knows – maybe we can wake up the world of wine and Riesling affectionados to join.

The people you met: Robert Joseph, Jancis R., Steven Spurrier, Gary Vaynerchuck, Kevin Zraly, Mel Dick, Jose Maguiro etc. (and I do hope also King Robert jr.) they all join Hugh Johnson and all of us in our protest against a useless and destructive project. The politicians want to execute this monstrous Non UNESCO World Heritage of Culture Destruction for their fame and dont care what the Convention of Hague 1954 asked for:

“Damage to cultural property, belonging to any people whatsoever, means damage to the cultural heritage of all mankind, since each person makes its contribution to the culture of the world.”

The people in this part of the Mosel river built these immensively steep, painstakenly difficult to cultivate, even dangerous to work in vineyards since Roman times. Well worth to defend, therefore I engaged myself here lately.

Ryan,

I am aware – time out since long – but: Can you make an exception from your 1 second internet slot this time to read this and ask your warriors to protest with us?

Many, many people will love you for that – it´s not all commercial, we need a heart from time to time in our industry as well. And if you have the will and power to write an open letter on this or a statement in the print media you are connected with – more than appreciated

admiring you,

Enno