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(Manfred Klimek / Pic Animation: Runwayml) Even before she met Marco Kalchbrenner, Jutta Ambrositsch was a brilliant young Carinthian graphic designer in Vienna. One who could not merely read typography, but think it. Marco, in turn, came from text, from language, from the precise placement of meaning – and there he was, the South Burgenlander, likewise one of the Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Claude Auguste) At the beginning of a year that, from an early stage, cast harsh looks towards the future of wine, the universe of vines has lost two personalities who, each in their own way, shaped the tradition, expression and self-understanding of great wine culture: Pierre Trimbach from Alsace and Daniel Cathiard from Bordeaux. Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Björn Grebner) It is not a story of a straight line, but one of arcs of courage, mistakes and, finally, a more intimate and better finale. Born in 1996 out of an understandable longing: three winemakers, three visions, a single dream: an Austrian red wine that aspired to create its own Tignanello. Not a copy, but a Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek) I have been travelling around Burgenland for three days. I visit winemakers, sit in tasting rooms, drive through vineyards, and drink with concentration and attention, usually euphorically. And with almost equal concentration, something else is poured for me – not by the winemakers I visit, mind you: rumours. Half-sentences. Hints. Disparaging remarks about precisely those estates at which Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Björn Grebner) Yesterday afternoon at Gerhard Kracher’s in Illmitz was a wonderful moment. Not pathetic, but remarkably sober – and precisely for that reason possessed of a quiet force, full of positive energy (which we urgently need in times like these). Gerhard Kracher is 44 years old. At 23, he took over the winery after the Read the full article…
(Claude Auguste) European winegrowing can also be managed to death. It can be dissected in studies, packaged in campaigns, compressed into monthly abstinence periods, while being told that all of this is “for its own good”. That is exactly what is happening now. While winegrowers have cellars full of wine, urban milieus in the old countries of the Atlantic Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Editorial) Natural wines no longer need a justification. They need context. And Moravia is currently providing exactly that like hardly any other region in Europe. Between Znaim/Znojmo, Mikulov and the hills of Kraví Hora, a wine landscape has been emerging for a good ten or fifteen years, born not out of protest against conventional, industrial wines, but out of a desire Read the full article…
(by Manfred Klimek / Photo: Medienagenten / Location: Freundschaft Berlin / Animation: Runwayml) Lake Constance was for a long time the quiet edge of German winegrowing – little known, as many regions in the east of the country still are today. Not a place for grand narratives, then, but neither a territory for vanities, and therefore more of a transit space between Württemberg, Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek, Photo: Stefan Feichtinger WEIN & CO / wonderfully flawed animation: Runwayml) Heike and Gernot Heinrich were already established young winegrowers when they brought the first Salberg cuvée onto the market in 2001 – 90% Merlot, 10% Zweigelt. It was soon being called the “best Mouton in Austria”, admittedly nonsense, but something the Heinrichs were rightly not unhappy about, Read the full article…
(Editorial / Manfred Klimek) It is one of those moments when the industry realises that “digitalisation” does not just mean attractive reach curves, but dependency. Meta – Facebook in this specific case – has, according to concordant industry reports, begun to stop algorithmically recommending pages related to alcohol. Not deleted, not banned, not necessarily sanctioned. But with the help of the algorithm from Read the full article…
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