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(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…
(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…
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