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(Manfred Klimek) There are winemakers whom we describe through their wines. And then there are those few with whom we eventually realise that we are actually describing a person who makes wine. Anton Bauer belonged to this second, rarer category. With his death, the Wagram loses not only one of its most important protagonists, but also an unflinching individualist who Read the full article…
(Claude Auguste / Editorial team / animated photo: Weingut & Runwaylm) It is worth looking at Markus Molitor from the perspective that almost always gets lost in the public discourse about this winemaker, who has received less attention in recent years. Not the Riesling myth in Molitor’s now almost impossible-to-survey Riesling universe, but the “other” wines. They are Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / WELT am SONNTAG / editorially revised / revised photos: Runwayml) Restraint in consumption, price pressure, younger generations drinking less wine, winemakers expected to prepare for tougher times – these sentences have by now become part of the industry’s background noise. They are repeated, varied and intensified. And they are not wrong. But neither are they the Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek, Editorial team) 1. More lightweight bottles. More used containers. Winemakers around the world have pretended for too long that glass is neutral and irrelevant. It is not. Weight is CO₂, prestige is emissions. Anyone who still believes that heavy bottles stand for quality has neither done the sums nor listened. 2026 should be the year in which lightweight bottles and reused Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Photo of Uwe Schiefer by Andreas Durst) It begins with a number. 98. Black on white, beneath a wine unlike any previously seen in Austria: 98 Parker points for the Blaufränkisch “Ried Spitzerberg – Obere Spitzer”. The highest rating ever awarded to an Austrian Blaufränkisch. Anyone who sees the value solely as Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Photo: montage using an old-fashioned method) The prize came from America, but it reached a village in the Weinviertel. Johannes Zillinger was named the world’s best Riesling by Wine Enthusiast for his Numen Riesling 2021 – 96 points, right at the top of a category otherwise dominated by the Mosel, Wachau or Rheingau. Read the full article…
(Claude Auguste / Editorial team: Manfred Klimek) With the death of Emmanuel Reynaud, not only has one of the most significant winemakers of the southern Rhône passed away. An entire mode of thought has disappeared, an attitude that shaped the European understanding of quality wine for two decades like scarcely any other. Reynaud was no fanatic, but more an ideologue – and never a Read the full article…
(Editorial team) For years, January has been declared the moral high mass of abstinence. With headlines that sound so unequivocal that they are intended to nip any questioning in the bud: Alcohol is poison. Every drop causes harm. Full stop. What systematically disappears in the process is not doubt – but the evidence. Or, more precisely, the evidence that does not fit the pedagogical narrative. Read the full article…
(Willi Klinger / Oberösterreichische Nachrichten / Wineparty) Last-minute Advent season: it is cold and gets dark early outside even without snow. Ideal conditions for a cosy evening with warming food and a good bottle of red wine. This is how I always imagine seasonal nirvana, whether the scene is set in misty Piedmont, at home in the countryside or Read the full article…
(Claude Auguste) Dry January is approaching. Another year, another attempt, another effort to declare an entire month a moral cleansing zone. What began in 2024 as a pop-cultural crusade – against alcohol in general and wine in particular – could, this January, be noticeably losing its impact for the first time. The first wave of campaigning was loud, Read the full article…
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