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The Insider – Eine anonyme Quelle und Vorwürfe an den Tiroler Sommelierverband

04.09.2025 07:01:17 / wineparty

The Insider – An anonymous source and allegations against the Tyrolean Sommelier Association

(Wineparty Investigative) Wineparty received a letter from an anonymous source accusing the Tyrolean Sommelier Association of strange behaviour (cronyism). As we know, the Tyrolean Sommelier Association is by far the most powerful in Austria. An investigation by Wineparty has found that the aforementioned complaint does indeed exist – and that the preliminary proceedings concerning it were [conducted] by the Innsbruck Public Prosecutor's Office Read the full article…

03.09.2025 10:56:47 / wineparty

Carrying on

His death came as a surprise and was also a slap in the face for the Kremstal wine scene – back then, in 2018, when Walter Buchegger died. At fifty. After breakfast. In the middle of his work. He, the storming one, the one who kept moving things forward, who drew the conclusion from the region's stagnation in the late 1990s: to make modern wines and thus also Read the full article…

Wie Grüner Veltliner Trumps Zölle schrottete – vorläufig

30.08.2025 07:56:23 / wineparty

How Grüner Veltliner scrapped Trump's tariffs – provisionally

(Editorial, Reuters) There are stories that sound so unlikely that one would really have to invent them – were it not for the reality that provides them for us. The latest is this: Grüner Veltliners from the Kamptal of all places helped to throw Donald Trump's tariff policy off balance. As reported in Austria's Standard today, it was a small US importer, Read the full article…

„This Life“: Der nächste Tropfen Promi-Limonade

29.08.2025 07:20:19 / wineparty

“This Life”: The next drop of celebrity lemonade

(Editorial) Norah Jones? When the name of the second-most prominent singer of the late 1990s is mentioned today (the most prominent, incidentally, was Amy Winehouse), most people remember her fleeting film kiss with Jude Law less than her music. She sang her biggest hit almost 25 years ago – Don't Know Why. Does anyone still remember that? Read the full article…

Gestrig war gestern. Kolumnist Claude Auguste reagiert auf Kritik an seiner Kolumne

27.08.2025 07:16:24 / wineparty

Yesterday was yesterday. Columnist Claude Auguste responds to criticism of his column

In the photo by Rachel Wirth: Daniel Aßmuth, a winemaker who failed despite excellent work (by Claude Auguste) “Yesterday” – what a convenient word when one does not want to accept an uncomfortable observation. I admit it: Yes, I do not write to the rhythm of TikTok seconds. But that is because wine itself does not live to the rhythm of the second. Read the full article…

Prestige, Likes und die Verengung der Weinöffentlichkeit

25.08.2025 08:06:54 / wineparty

Prestige, likes and the narrowing of the wine public sphere

A commentary by Claude Auguste There is a scene on Instagram, on Facebook, even on TikTok. Wine is “talked about” (written about) there, but it is a way of speaking and writing that rarely has much to do with curiosity or discovery alone. What counts is the label. The more famous the bottle, the greater the attention. A 2008 Petrus? Read the full article…

Pure Vernunft darf auch siegen – wie konnten wir Chateau Maucaillou vergessen?

23.08.2025 08:14:33 / wineparty

Pure reason may also prevail – how could we have forgotten Château Maucaillou?

(© Dourthe Freres) by Manfred Klimek I got to know Château Maucaillou when I bought 60 bottles from the 1982 and 1985 vintages at the auction of the bankrupt commodities futures trader Kernstock in Vienna. Everyone was interested only in Lafite, Latour, Margaux, Mouton, Petrus, which Kernstock also had stacked by the crate in the cellar. Nobody called out for the 60 bottles Read the full article…

Das deutsche Unglück mit dem Wein – Warum ein Land mit großer Vergangenheit seine Gegenwart kleinredet.

22.08.2025 08:26:44 / wineparty

The German misfortune with wine – Why a country with a great past talks down its present.

by Claude Auguste Sometimes I wonder whether Germans even know what they have in wine. I write this as a South Tyrolean, as someone who stands with one foot in Italian patriotism and the other in Tyrolean-Austrian patriotism, which, admittedly, has given way to an autonomy patriotism that no longer relies on Austria. For us it is part of the Read the full article…

Ein Glas, ein Leben – Betrachtungen zu einem Leserbrief

21.08.2025 10:06:25 / wineparty

One glass, one life – reflections on a letter to the editor

(by Marcel Reich-Painicki, delivered in his voice) There are texts, ladies and gentlemen, that, however inconspicuous they may appear, are a document. A document not merely of a private memory, but of an era, an attitude, indeed, of an entire culture. Such a text lies before us here. It is the story of a man – a wine enthusiast, as Read the full article…

Falscher Eingang – das Sektglas-Sakrileg

20.08.2025 08:31:51 / wineparty

Wrong entrance – the champagne flute sacrilege

(Editorial) There are stupid but instructive experiments. Right at the top of this discipline: drinking red wines from champagne flutes. We did it, because it began with the saying: Great wines explain themselves from every glass. Even from a champagne flute, the maximally wrong glass – slender, pointed, built for bubbles, not for tannin. An affront to everything, Read the full article…