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The ascetic society is a distanced society. It knows more boundaries than space, is deeply sanctimonious – which would not even be the worst thing – and, owing to its profound self-assurance, is also happy to turn to the legislators in order, if not to bring the less faithful into line, at least to make them obey.
This Dry January was accompanied for the first time by a massive campaign against drinking wine. In the process, several contrary scientific studies on wine and its diverse effects were either barely taken into account or completely concealed. A Wineparty team read through these studies and distilled the most important sentences from them. Also a background investigation into anti-alcohol organisations, which
“Is alcohol good or bad for you? Yes.” is the cool title of a highly interesting article in Harvard University’s Public Health Magazine dated 22 August 2024. In it, the authors oppose the claim, increasingly often encountered at present, that even the first sip of wine or beer is harmful to health, and describe it as an impermissible simplification. Read the full article…
https://wineparty.wine/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hoppestrase-14.m4a Firstly: Not a podcast Secondly: Alexis de Tocqueville was not in the USA in the last century, but in the 19th century Thirdly: That is how it goes, in the daily conversations of the two Bassena intellectuals from Ösistan. Fourthly: A completely unedited excerpt from our Call!-Me!-Now!-Life. Fifthly: The topics here are the now-disappearing old-men wine culture, which is not in the great
What grape varieties does the winemaker list there; grape varieties whose fermented juices are supposedly found alone in a single bottle of white wine? There are an insane number of them. And many of them have never been heard of before. So here we go: Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Riesling, Furmint, Sauvignon Blanc, Red Muscat, Scheurebe, Red Furmint, Gewürztraminer, Yellow Traminer, Red Traminer, Jubiläumsrebe, Neuburger, Grüner Read the full article…
Cyprus. The island with a kind of Berlin Wall, but one that is more permeable than the division in the German capital ever was. There are also comparisons with Korea, and those too are of course wrong. The fact remains, however: Cyprus is, along with Korea, the only brutally divided country in the world, with border installations, demilitarised zones and UN personnel on the ground. Read the full article…
In the first column of this year, I want to continue with Blaufränkisch, that Danubian grape variety known in Germany as Lemberger. And specifically with what I believe are the most authentic Blaufränkisch wines to have come into my glass recently: the Blaufränkisch wines of Lower Austrian winemaker Dorli (Dorothea) Muhr. Most recently, I tasted a red-wine work with similar Read the full article…
Stefan Steinmetz is one of those winemakers who have been close to Wineparty from the very beginning, that is, since 2015. That is no reason not to discuss some of Steinmetz's wines critically as well – such as his Pinot Meunier. His Alter Satz, on the other hand, embodies everything that a living winemaking and wine culture stands for. This wine, this old-vine blend from Stefan Steinmetz Read the full article…
A small family winery from Deidesheim has written its rejection of the AfD, which is classified as far-right in large parts, in an abbreviation on its back label. The result: the mother of all shitstorms. But does it really have to be this way? Is wine political – beyond wine politics? Kathrin and Christoph Mehling jointly produce some pretty good Palatinate wines. For example, Riesling GG from Read the full article…
Wine and Dublin. Not exactly what comes to mind when one thinks of the Emerald Isle. You fly to Dublin for the Guinness, the Irish stew, the pubs and other things – just as this time. Arrive, unpack, off to the first pub. And three more, to find one's rhythm for the next few days Read the full article…
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