Germany has its fair share of stereotypes to battle. As Rainer Lingenfelder, a well-known Pfalz producer and exporter, puts it: "Germany is seen as a high -tech country where everyone is an engineer who is obsessed with ‘vorsprung durch technik’, racing up and down the autobahn. These guys don’t eat or drink and only occasionally stop to enjoy a Beethoven concert. "The fact is ,…