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Just one bottle in the frame for two minutes. Sometimes the front, sometimes the back: the label demands it. But alongside that, Gerhard Retter's sonorous voice. And the feeling of having missed something. But why this particular video is a model. And what for. I will write more about that tomorrow on wineparty.wine https://wineparty.wine/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WhatsApp-Video-2024-12-30-at-15.07.32.mp4
Because the two estates, which appear different, are pursuing the same goal: to produce singular, unforgettable wines that make Germany's wine country visible internationally too – as the great wine nation that Germany once was. And is again. Today I am taking the easy route. First, a few words about Jule Eichblatt and Kai Schätzel: Here, six years ago, I Read the full article…
Because she is consistently Hello Kitty when it comes to wine. Because she is one of the few to have recognised that rosé is the only wine colour for which it is still possible to tell stories of ascent and establishment. And because she lives an embodiment of bourgeois respectability with a solid dash of feminism. Step forward: Pia Strehn. When Pia Strehn decided to make her Read the full article…
Italian Version below Because he switched from investigative journalism to winemaking, while remaining investigative. Because he has created what is probably the best new Italian fine red wine. Because he did so at a time when, sadly, only a few people were calling for such a revolutionary wine. Step forward: Gian Luca Mazzella! She lets Read the full article…
We thought that, with the announcement of the Winemaker of the Year, business before Christmas was done. But as we have just been informed, Italian media are reporting a wine scandal in the Bolgheri region. We quote from the left-liberal and fairly wine-focused daily newspaper La Repubblica. This is virtually only the beginning, and we at winepaerty.wine will stay on the case, Read the full article…
The New Wineparty continues where the old New Wineparty ended in 2016; and also where Captain Cork ended for me in 2014: with the proclamation of the winemakers of the year. This was actually supposed to take place from Saturday until today, but it goes without saying that these contributions should be put on hold following the murderous attack in Magdeburg. Read the full article…
Fifteen years are both short and long at the same time. How long, my first sparkling wine recommendations in DIE ZEIT from 2009 show. It is astonishing what I drank back then. Most astonishing of all the Blauer Wildbacher from the Veneto. Do these wines still exist? Proof & talk! Vouvray Brut, Domaine de la Rouletière-Gilet This type of sparkling wine is hardly known in Germany. And Read the full article…
Today we do not want to write many lines, but rather let Dirk Würtz, managing partner at St. Antony in Nierstein in Rheinhessen, talk about Demeter, which here, in its interpretation at St. Antony, represents a stupendous modernity. Is there a for and against? Is there being and non-being with Demeter? Let us listen together to someone who really knows what he is talking about.
Low-alcohol red wines with finesse and delicacy? Are they the future of red wine suffering from a lack of sales? That is what we would have to think if we listened to reflective voices. Yet in 2024, industrially produced red wine grenades are saving the often alarmingly shrinking sales figures. And that is not good news. Willi Klinger, former CEO of Österreichische Weinmarketing and Wein & Co, wrote on the Read the full article…
Ziegler: “Have you already read my Venice story, the draft?” Klimek: “Yes, halfway, it was impossible to read to the end, it is more boring than homework for seventh-graders. Ziegler: “Yes… yes, but you said I could write?!” Klimek: “Well, I must have been mistaken there. That has happened to me elsewhere too.” Ziegler: “What do we do now?”
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