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(Manfred Klimek / animated pic: Runwayml) Why does nobody actually put Markus Schneider’s wines in the cellar? And wait. I attended a rare private tasting of mature Schneider wines. The question of the ageing potential of popular Schneider wines arose when a handful of bottles were opened that had been sitting there – almost by accident – for years Read the full article…
(Claude Auguste / Manfred Klimek – Editorial) The closure of the von Hövel winery on the Saar surprised many. But the winery is not a direct victim of the much-cited “wine crisis” that has been making the headlines for months. The decline in sales in Europe and the USA explains only a small part of the story. The real reason lies Read the full article…
(Jacqueline Dolati in Paris / Manfred Klimek Editorial / animated pic: Runwayml) Ask the winemaker? We did. Martin Tesch on his and Hanspeter Ziereisen’s bistro evening in the French capital, on the importance of Scandinavian customers – and Prowein and its Pronleme, now having to compete against Wine Paris: WP: Martin, you were during Read the full article…
(by Claude Auguste / Editorial / Photo: 20th Century Fox / animated pic: Runwayml) Almost exactly 20 years ago, I was sitting in the cinema, with a cascade of expectations that had nothing to do with wine. A road movie? Two men? Napa Valley? Sounded like summer, sunshine, vines, the good life, didn’t it? It also sounded a little boring. But Read the full article…
(by Robert Camuto / via Jancis Robinson / animated pic: runwayml / Winemaker: Kloster am Spitz, Burgenland) These days, you cannot speak to anyone in the wine world without talking about THE CRISIS: consumption is declining, Millennials and Gen Z are reaching for cocktails or mocktails, and US tariffs and threats are causing (as my grandparents would have said, Read the full article…
(By Henry Crowhurst – UK / Editorial / animated pic: New South Wales Wines – Runwayml) Wales? That is the part of the UK that was given the Prince of Wales by the royal family so that the Welsh would leave their lances and swords in the cellar. It worked well (apart from the miners’ strike in the early 1980s). Read the full article…
https://wineparty.wine/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Hoppestrase-18.m4a (Manfred Klimek / Pic animated: Runwayml) Others do “poshcasts” (very modern at the moment); the chronically underfunded Wineparty (poor but sexy) simply holds its ageing iPhone up to the MacBook and records: Lenz Moser V on global wine-political questions, on the downturn and a new generation of wine drinkers in China, on emerging markets, on the great asset of word of mouth, on Read the full article…
(Nikolaus Skene) Sometimes you fancy a white wine. Sometimes a red. And after sport, a beer is also a wonderful thing. Nobody would think of ordering everything at once at precisely that moment. No sommelier in the world would say: “No problem, I’ll bring you white wine, red wine, beer, a steak, a towel, Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Pic animated: Runwayml) Rechnitz and Wösendorf, one place on the easternmost foothills of the Alps, the other on the southernmost edge of the Austrian Waldviertel – places that could not be more different. Yet we must linger here longer, because wines are poured here as though they were arguments – no, they are! Rechnitz – the anti-idyll Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Pic animated: Runwayml) My winter journey among winemakers continues, intended to explain the winegrowers and their worldview and broad outlook – at a time when everyone working in oenology has to acquire a formidable set of tools in order to respond to a totally changing market. Today: the sound of two winemaking couples. First stop: Rheinhessen. The red Read the full article…
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