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Second and final part of the public reactions to our question about which wines were the “awakening wines” that led people to become wine enthusiasts. And here it becomes especially clear how responsible many fathers were for this: people who are now very old or dead, liberal men who wanted to pass on their pleasure in enjoyment to their children – to them it is Read the full article…
(Editorial) Three days ago, we asked our readers about those wines that turned them into wine enthusiasts. And we received more responses than expected (121). This is a powerful sign of life from a community now wrongly declared dead. Here is the first batch of reactions, anonymised, but otherwise in the posters’ exact words. A second batch will come tomorrow. And Read the full article…
(Editorial) The wave is here. It does not break thunderously over the mainland of the wine world like a tsunami; it rolls in smoothly, almost inconspicuously. Less alcohol, more fun in the glass – perhaps that one extra glass that the hospitality industry is so urgently lacking. Not as an act of penance, but as an act of conviction. Two Sauvignon blancs show today how eleven per cent Read the full article…
by Derfnam Kemilk There are thresholds in life, and of the liver, that we only recognise once we crossed them long ago. No bang when crossing them, no fanfare when opening the door – just that one special moment in which something switches inside you and makes it clear: a new era is beginning now, perhaps even a new life. A new Read the full article…
(Empty containers? Please hand them in at https://drink.winearty.wine) by Claude Auguste Sometimes, days after the evening I thought was over, I return to the scene of the action. The glass is still in the kitchen, not washed, not polished, not put away. Beside it, the bottle, empty. Or almost empty. I lift it, tilt it, look Read the full article…
by Manfred Klimek One had already grown accustomed to the wine world groaning. Too few guests, too many bills, too little hope. The narrative was saturated with frustration – and within it lay that weariness which settles in over the years like yeast that no one stirs. And then, on a Saturday in Großlangheim, during the Read the full article…
(Empty bottles? Disposal and report. Go & joyn: www://https.drink.wineparty.wine) by Leo Quarda & Editorial I land in Malta. First Cyprus, then Malta – two Mediterranean islands, but only Malta had this special 29th anniversary of GastroBizz: around 400 restaurateurs in full occupation. Me: armed with wines. They: dehydrated and thirsty. Me: pouring out hectolitres Read the full article…
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna) Wine was never merely a drink. It was always also a story – of landscapes, of civilisation, of memory. Granted! From the first clay vessel in the Caucasus to the courtly etiquette of the Grand Siècle, from the Burgundy in Hildegard of Bingen’s goblet to the single-vineyard Riesling on the menu of the Japanese emperor: wine was a universal formula. A cultural technique. A sign of this, Read the full article…
Look here: drink. wineparty.wine Yes, we know: the world really probably does not need another app with points, ratings and an aroma wheel. It really doesn’t! And yet: we, that is, the irreplaceable Gerhard Ziegler, developed it. Not by accident, of course. Vox Populi instead of a luxury club: DRINK is for those who drink – not for those who taste. A platform that does not Read the full article…
(Funke Group / R. Klar / Photo) The city stands still. Rain lashes the tarmac and the concrete, as if it wanted to soften both. The sky for days: a lead-grey slab. Berlin, shortly before atmospheric self-dissolution. No sun, no shade, just this weather – Germany in autumn. What helps now? A fireplace – imagined if necessary. Read the full article…
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