Bottle of wine hits the spot?

A friend came round and as is the custom, brought a bottle of wine. There's always a hidden agenda with this person so I did some research.

It was a Riesling Gräfenberg 2001 which comes from the Rheingau region in Germany, from a vineyard site that's three kilometers from the Rhine river.

The wine has a very good pedigree. At a Rheingau wine auction, a bottle of 1998 Grafenberg Riesling, sold for DM 3,132 (about £1200), the highest price among wines in its class.

So probably not your average bottle of plonk.








The small town of Gräfenberg in Bavaria belonged in the 14th century to the Kings of Bohemia.






Its main claim to fame is the birth place of Hydrotherapy which dates from about 1829 when Vincent Priessnitz , a farmer of Gräfenberg started selling his water 'cures' and went on to establish a world-famous spa.

















This link with water seems to be celebrated in the 1987 film, 'Grafenberg Girls Go Fishing' which features "an arousing bubble bath sequence" and much of the action takes place in a fishing boat.








Keeping a close eye on things is the Gräfenberg Observatory which is a very famous earthquake monitoring station.




Could the earthquake station have been named after Dr Ernst Gräfenberg who certainly knew something about making the earth move.



He was arrested in Germany in 1937 for trying to smuggle a valuable stamp out of the country. On his release he went to the US where he opened a sex clinic in New York. He was commemorated for his work on female erotic zones by later sexologists naming this the Gräfenberg spot, more commonly known as the g-spot.






So now we know about the message in the bottle.

Did the wine hit the spot? Not telling - hehe.