The Wineparty
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…
(Editorial) Wine is no longer a status symbol – those times are currently fading away. Not a luxury product in large quantities, as throughout all the hype years of late. No longer just a hobby for people with money. Wine was and is conversation. Encounter. Contradiction in the glass. And now that wine is returning to normality, we want to talk more about wines again Read the full article…
Manfred Klimek & Editorial Which vines should remain – and which may/should go? This question is currently not being discussed publicly in German viticulture. Yet yesterday, an economic commentary on WELT Online spoke of a decline in vineyard areas of at least 50% in the near future. Is this German crisis-mongering once again? The German luxuriating in the worst-case scenario? In any case: 50% seems, despite all the Read the full article…
by Manfred Klimek It begins with a number. 98. It stands there, black on white, beneath a wine the likes of which Austria has never seen before. 98 Parker points for the Blaufränkisch “Ried Spitzerberg – Obere Spitzer”. The highest score ever awarded to an Austrian red wine. One can read this as an accolade. Or as an
(Pic: Reuters) by Claude Auguste In viticulture, it has always been a question of the harvest: When has the right moment come to cut, decide, act? Harvested too early, the wine remains green. Harvested too late, its future “oxidises”. Since 2020 (and before), here too, in the old, weatherproof world of the vines, Read the full article…
by Manfred Klimek / WELT am SONNTAG It smells of earth, of stable, also, imagined or not, of white pepper. A tractor drones in the distance; the Oder and the Polish border are less than ten kilometres away. Nothing indicates what one then encounters in the glass – excellent wines; made there where Read the full article…
JOIN THE PARTY
We report independently and objectively on winegrowers, wine producers and wine businesses in the Friendship Connection. If we like your story, we will write it here together – and you will become our author.
When activated, your DRINK access will be created automatically as well. In DRINK, you will then use the normal login with the same login details.