The Wineparty
Michele Chiarlo turns 70. More precisely: his winery. And anyone who looks at which vineyards this family farms in Piedmont might come up with a fairly impertinent question: Could Chiarlo possibly be bigger than Gaja?
WINEPARTY publisher Gerhard Ziegler was on Zakynthos and Kefalonia. Back in the editorial office, he got a dressing-down from WINEPARTY editor-in-chief Manfred Klimek. He had actually been waiting for a new editorial feature to be completed. Instead, he got a travel report – and Ziegler got into trouble. A transcript.
Every year, the wine world reports extensively on the harvest and the vintage. This year, however, coverage has been rather restrained. But that is a mistake in times of crisis. Our author Claude Auguste has surveyed the situation across Europe. And delivers a first comprehensive report.
The East was red. Is the East dead? Not at all. Our Veronese author Claude Auguste has written a long read on winegrowing in the former GDR for German Unity Day. About its history. And what there is to discover—not only for the better-off Wessis.
I felt it with the first sip around 30 years ago. And the wine was one of Domaine Coche-Dury’s. Then I found this phenomenon in other, far more affordable wines too. Yet to this day I do not know where it comes from. A search for clues. The WELT am SONNTAG column from last Sunday (circulation: 262,155 print copies)
A young winery, an ancient method and a wine range that explains Georgian Amber Wine pretty perfectly. A visit to 39 Qvevri in Bitsmendi – in a country that dances politically restlessly between Europe and Asia. And where winemaking and wine drinking are never questioned. Gerhard Ziegler took a look around.
At the age of 62, Andrea Wirsching is leaving the famous family winery in Iphofen and taking over the management of Karthäuserhof on the Ruwer. There she will meet Mathieu Kauffmann, one of Europe’s most brilliant oenologists. What begins as a personnel matter is becoming something bigger: a remarkable new constellation is currently emerging in German winegrowing.
Jancis Robinson has been writing about wine for fifty years. She has now written in the Financial Times about what has changed during that time. The result is not merely a reckoning of an era. It is the story of how a drink for older gentlemen became a global culture – and how that culture is now fighting for its future. Claude Auguste has read her assessment in the FT.
All of a sudden, Canada is in the European spotlight. Yet Canada is also a wine-producing country. How is that possible? With scarcely any Gulf Stream influence and brutally cold winters. Our author Claude Auguste has taken a look. And discovered a few wineries, too. The Wineparty at the weekend.
Ten years of a weekly wine tip in WELT am SONNTAG. Nowhere else does wine receive this weekly attention in a mass-circulation publication. The texts are short and concise and accompany Volker Hobl’s recipes. Ten years – that means more than 500 wine tips. Here are the last ten weeks.
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