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Rheinhessen: Wineparty wants to stay there for a few days this week. Rheinhessen is that wine region which, 40 years ago, and even 30 years ago, still had little to contribute when it came to quality wines. I am old enough to remember the time, back when I first began visiting German winemakers, when it was Read the full article…
I assume you know the situation. You meet someone in your professional circle whom you had previously paid little attention to and chat with them on the fringes of an event. And gradually you realise that this person, although very young, thinks incredibly reflectively about their profession, going into depth Read the full article…
I travelled to Rheinhessen by train. Before Wine-Eights. Travelling to Rheinhessen by train means having to travel with DB in 95% of cases: the corporation that since around 2003 has managed to shred my nerves without being able to tailor a new, better nervous system from them – quite the opposite. Just as an aside: Read the full article…
When I began writing this, at lunchtime as it happens, there was a bottle of Riesling from Lisa Bunn on the table – easy and excellent. But then I opened a bottle of Rausch VDP Große Lage 2022 from Forstmeister Geltz-Zilliken winery on the Saar. Rausch without the intoxication, because the wine is (was: because now “its being like Read the full article…
Talking to Christoph Hammel can sometimes be tiresome, because the Palatinate winemaker above all likes to hear himself talk: a May Gemini – just like the author of these lines. But listening to Hammel has one particular advantage: he says out loud what others are thinking and is as populist as Potus Trump (a June Gemini), though without Read the full article…
(together with KALK & KEGEL) Admittedly: I only really noticed proxies (I write the plural in the Oxford version without a y), those new drinks that present themselves as a better alternative to wine than alcohol-free wine ever can, last year – and only drank my first proxies last year too. The reason for that was less
In October 2024, Gerhard Retter made a little Insta film about proxies and got 400,000 views with it – the wine world can only dream of that. Hence a new telephone pseudo-podcast, recorded on the six-year-old iPhone of the financially impoverished “chief editor”. Conversation partner Gerhard Retter on proxies, kombuchas, teas and everything fermented. And why the sommelière of this
Five days alcohol-free: The Wineparty looks behind the scenes of alcohol-free wine and so-called proxies, which are becoming increasingly popular. Wineparty chief literary writer Risto Rieger gets things started. He tells us how alcohol-free wine is made. And why sustainability and manual work are rarely words you can use here. The normative influence of social media on the for years
Eric Asimov is a permanently employed wine writer and wine critic for the New York Times and reaches the largest readership (men included) in the USA when it comes to wine and the enjoyment of wine. And now, towards the end of the Dry-Thingamajig, which was also discussed excessively in the NYT (also against wine), Asimov ventures his response of resistance from the Old-White-Wine-Drinker. Tentatively, compared with us, but the
Years of waiting came to an end yesterday. The reborn Michelin Austria was awaited like the return of the Seven Samurai. Alexander Rabl analyses for the Wineparty whether the sword was sharp. A party such as Austria has not experienced for a long time took place in Hangar 7 at Salzburg Airport. The futuristic-looking architecture of steel
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