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(Claude Auguste) I remember it well: there was a time when wine was almost inevitably a social event. I did not drink it alone, but in a pack, at the table, in the pub, in conversation. Wine was bonding agent, group glue, the trigger for many a curious incident, and sometimes also a pretext for escaping from everyday life. Anyone who drank alone was regarded as Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / WELT am SONNTAG) Red wine is under immense pressure. The reason for this is that young people, often and somewhat misleadingly called Generation Z, have less to do with wine than the generations before them – and the many hip and genuinely newly emerging wine bars around the world cannot disguise this. One thing is clear: the successful Read the full article…
(Nikolaus Skene)gfdgfg It is a sentence I now frequently hear in conversations all over the world: “I would rather talk to people than to AI” It is often followed by an addition such as: “I need real human contact.” That sounds understandable – and yet it does not go far enough. Functionally, this sentence is more akin to statements such as: “I would rather talk to Read the full article…
(Essay in the magazine The Healthy Times, published by the Healthy Boy Band / Photo: Cover of the Healthy Times) Two ways of remembering Petting with Pet-Nat? Intercourse with Bordeaux? Sex after wine, with wine, because of wine. Is that even conceivable in times of the dry-whatever movement? Yes! But.. Neither can be explained using PowerPoint. Both elude Read the full article…
(Editorial team) There are certainly fields in which science enjoys a quiet consensus: gravity, photosynthesis. Or winter tyres. And then there are those areas in which science itself becomes the stage – often unintentionally, sometimes permeated by interests, but always with an effect on the lives of many people. The wine market is one such area. One Read the full article…
(Editorial team, Manfred Klimek) It lies there harmlessly, this cool blue stick that rejects all the romance of enjoyment: technically sleek, slightly futuristic, a small device without pathos. Nothing about it reveals that for an entire generation it has become what red wine was for us: the opener to the evening, the decelerator, the small private transition from day to night. Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek) Weekends that have an effect. Already in the way I wanted them to and did not want them to. Weekends that, while they are happening, already let you know that a bill will be presented at the end. Mine arrived on Monday. With force. But let us begin at the beginning, that is, at the end of the day before the day before yesterday: late on Saturday evening, Berlin, a loose, slightly frayed constellation of two people Read the full article…
(Editorial team) Rankings, lists, leading stars – the wine world loves orientation. Yet this rarely comes from a direction from which one can gain anything new. The “World’s 50 Best Vineyards”, discussed here yesterday, celebrate architecture, viewpoints, visitor car parks and occasionally wine. Michelin, on the other hand – for decades the world’s most reliable and ultimately only system for culinary excellence – is now Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / WELT am SONNTAG) Rankings rule the world – and not only since elections came into existence or since the rock and pop music charts, which began in the 1950s, started rating pop culture. Rankings are annoying, but they make the search for something exceptional easier. Exceptional wine estates, for example. And for that there has been, since 2020, Read the full article…
( Klimek, Editorial team, Mixology-Base) It seems almost like a joke played by time: while Gen Z speaks with astonishing composure about “low alc”, “big fruit” and “easy drinking”, while sparkling wines (apparently still popular with Gen Z) and, to a lesser extent, proxies conquer the bedrooms of the urban republic, it is precisely that wine category which has embodied all this for Read the full article…
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