The Queen and Us

OPPENHEIM -- Readers, when I was first in Oppenheim at Hotel Zwo, looking out my window, I saw a

black BMW pull into the parking lot. I could see, painted on the hood of the car, the words "Deutsche Weinkonigin." Now I know about as much German as Young Werther knew Pig Latin, but even I could tell that the words translated as "German Wine Queen." What t…