Taking a trip to Germany in September - want to spend 2 days relaxing on/near a vineyard - also looking to do some tastings. We will have a car and be driving from Munich - any thoughts on the best region to visit / recommendations on a hotel?

We loved the Mosel region. Vineyards running up and down the steep hills. Lovely region to drive around. Little towns all over.

We stayed in Beilstein at this family run hotel: http://www.hotel-haus-lipmann.com It was our splurge and worth every penny. Gorgeous big rooms. Their wonderful breakfasts are served in the original knight's hall and their dinners are served on the front terrace facing the river. Gorgeous view.

We did a bit of wine tasting in Cochem and especially loved the ice wine from this region. It is a beautiful country.

Thanks! Any ideas on Baden-Baden regions or Rheingau?

you could spend a couple of days in Mainz-Wiesbaden Rheingau area, visiting Eltville / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltville and Hochheim / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochheim_am_Main "Located in the Rheingau, Hochheim has historically been a center of trade in wine. The English word Hock, a generic term for Rhine wine, is derived from Hochheim."
Behind Rüdesheim (nice, but too many tourists) in Assmannshausen / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assmannshausen you'd have the best choice of German red wine ( a bit expensive).

From Munich you would find the vinyards near Lake Constance easiest to get to. I have a little info at http://www.mybikeguide.co.uk/Constance_Food.php#Wine if that is enough then you need to surf on Baden Baden which is a wine region what reaches over to Lake Constance.

Rheingau is said by many to be the best wine region. Rudesheim is the core and there is a great cable car that rides over the vinyards to a fine hike back to town.

I love the Mosel but that is away across country.

From Munich, the Mosel, Baden, and Rheingau regions are all on the other side of the country. You could instead stay in Bavaria and visit the Franconian wineries. Würzburg is a well-known center of wine culture and a 2-hour train ride from Munich.

Information and good links at this site:
http://www.wuerzburg.de/en/tourisman...try/index.html

A wine-lover's blog on Franconian wine experiences:
https://themanfrommoselriver.wordpre...anconian-wine/

Franconain reds are still relatively cheap but really nice, (until they appear in some Japanese manga comic.) It'll happen, if I'd just knew what to buy . Part of the Franconian tribe moved west and gave that big country its name. Check out those wines from Franconia!

Franken wine is really based around Sylvaner and if unlucky Muller Thurgau, then placed in Boxboital (spelling well off) but a sort of flat glass bottle that can only be described at Mateus Rose and sold to tourists.

If you get to Wurzburg then go up to the Cardinal's palace to the South and taste the wines up there as it is the best of relatively poor wine.

I was in Germany last October and I had a great experience at a Kallstadt winery. There was a tour (given in German) and a tasting afterward, followed by a further tour of how they do the processing and bottling of the wine. The tasting was quite generous, in my opinion. When my cousin came to pick me up, I wasn't quite finished the tasting part of the program and she said my nose was all red! I got to try three reds and three whites.
Does that help?

I have stayed at the guesthouse of the S.A. Pruem Winery on the banks of the Mosel at Bernkastel ( http://www.sapruem.com/guesthouse.0.html ) and would recommend it. It is about an hour east of the Rhine in the heart of the Mosel wine country. The countryside and town of Bernkastel fit my idea of what a wine region should be.