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MANFRED KLIMEK
BERLIN - WELT AM SONNTAG
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9 December 25 / wineparty

Open today because yesterday was closed, because of the day before yesterday and the day before that. The intoxication on Wineparty

(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…

3 December 25 / wineparty

Bibendum Beats – Michelin on the wild side of wine

(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…
50 Shades of Wine: Wie ein neuer Weingutsführer das Thema Wein vorsätzlich verfehlt

2 December 25 / wineparty

50 Shades of Wine: How a new wine estate guide deliberately misses the point of wine

(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…
Sweets 4 my Sweet, Sugar 4 my Wine – die geilen Goldtröpfchen des Moselwinzers Eifel

1 December 25 / wineparty

Sweets 4 my Sweet, Sugar 4 my Wine – the horny golden drops of Moselle winemaker Eifel

( 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…
Der Sekt im Staatskeller – oder: Österreich probt den Markt­eingriff

28 November 25 / wineparty

The sparkling wine in the state cellar – or: Austria rehearses market intervention

(Manfred Klimek – following a report by Der Standard from Vienna) It is an event of a kind that Austria, the wine country, probably has not seen since 1985. Back then, the glycol scandal shook the entire sector; the state intervened with associations, cleared up, controlled and regulated with maximum innovation – successfully, as we all know. Forty years later, Read the full article…
Beim “Ferl”. Oder: Wie ein altes, konservatives Weingut in der Moderne Platz nimmt

23 November 25 / wineparty

At “Ferl”. Or: How an old, conservative winery takes its place in the modern age

(Manfred Klimek) There are also wineries that need no revolution in the current crisis, because their stability is already an expression of revolutionary intelligence. Max Ferdinand Richter in Mülheim on the Moselle is one of these rare exceptional estates. A house that has known what it is doing for centuries – and therefore also in times of the global wine crisis Read the full article…
Eine Karte. Und welche Schlüsse wir im Krieg gegen Wein aus ihr ziehen können

20 November 25 / wineparty

A map. And what conclusions we can draw from it in the war against wine

(Manfred Klimek, editorial team) There are maps that tell us more about a country’s culture than about its landscapes. The map of alcohol dependency in Germany (source: Barmer), which has been circulating for several days, belongs exactly in this category. It shows – broadly simplified – that precisely those regions in which winegrowing has been part of everyday life and culture for centuries have the lowest Read the full article…
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