BETWEEN THE RHINE AND THE MOSELLE

Mission preservation

An episode from the series FRENCH HERITAGE JOURNEYS (52MNS)

Synopsis

Geographer Antoine Beyer flies over the Rhine and the lakes of the Alsatian mountains.

Wine merchant Christian Pion meets producers along Alsace's famous wine route. With the Schoffit family, he harvests Alsace's spectacular Rangen vineyards planted on vertiginous slopes.

Pantxika de Paepe, curator of Colmar's museum, looks at the famous Kaysersberg's altarpiece, an extraordinary example of 16th-century Rhenish art.