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Climate change is posing many questions to viticulture. One question is the choice of grape varieties. In France, as the renowned daily newspaper Le Monde reports, there are a few winemakers in the Cévennes who are defying French wine law and planting forbidden varieties again. They have good reasons for this, as journalist Agathe Beaudounin reports. The Wineparty Read the full article…
Stilton-Sirius-Irgenwer is wine influenza (it comes from the flu): that is, someone young who is hyped up by the SCHLUCK magazine, which I know and which is certified as good, into a kind of wine Hunter S. Thompson. Yet the text praised today (https://www.schluck-magazin.de/artikel/flussiger-kleinwagen) is a revelation that leaves only one conclusion: Oh, it’s a boy. But not a man! And it is a text that the wine world Read the full article…
Herbert Wehner, an SPD veteran (you can Google him), once said of the Wineparty editor-in-chief: “Mr Klimek likes to bathe lukewarm.” Well, that is actually true today (it was in the 1970s too, really), because Klimek is currently curing his real flu in an anti-flu bubble bath. That is why today we are briefly showing his wine tips for the now traditional Christmas menu of WELT am SONNTAG Read the full article…
Ostensibly, it is exclusively about health. But the true aim of the “sober-moths”, the months without alcohol and wine that are currently becoming fashionable in our latitudes, above all among the prim left-green bourgeois classes, is absolute abstinence. This is demanded by an evangelical, radically right-wing religious order and successfully enforced worldwide through lobbying. Michael Vesely has investigated (the Read the full article…
Willi Klinger was CEO of the Austrian wine marketing organisation for many years and subsequently CEO at Wein & Co, Austria’s leading wine retailer belonging to Hawesko – today Klinger writes a column on current topics in the wine world (“With a Sharp Tongue”). In a rapid WhatsApp survey of 80 well-known people from the wine industry, I was able to get this Read the full article…
A bad random video, lousy sound and portrait format to boot. Nevertheless exclusive, because Gerhard Retter tastes the new sparkling wines from Felix and Klaus-Peter Keller here and declares these juices to be a disruption of the customary. Do we need to rewrite the history of German sparkling wine? Klaus Peter Keller, the winery and the person, and the Wineparty do not have an especially good relationship with each other. Reason Read the full article…
A visit to a young winemaking couple in Rheinhessen; winemakers of the kind there are many. But Katharina and, above all, Christian Pitthan have recognised something essential. Without much fuss. Zotzenheim, Rheinhessen: Here, winegrowing looks like the south-eastern Weinviertel in Austria: somewhat uninteresting villages, architecture as if Jack Wolfskin had also opened an engineering office 30 years ago. Read the full article…
Here VINUM editor-in-chief Harald Scholl, a classic journalist and not an industry nerd, speaks about the essential tasks in winegrowing and for the winemaking profession – in the midst of a sales crisis that will not end overnight. https://wineparty.wine/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/WinepartyInterview_copy.mp4
The Wineparty was informed today of a criminal act. What is it about? And what does the Wineparty have to do with it? The Golden Pruning Shears: this is the prize with which the editorial team of the Swiss-German wine magazine “Vinum” highlights and rewards special achievements. The magazine writes about it as follows: “Autumn is the season of awards, alongside the Read the full article…
One of the two bosses here is a columnist and author (not only) on wine for Germany’s largest weekly newspaper, WELT am SONNTAG. And he provides information about what his current Sunday column is about. Dear female readers (men are included here): In today’s edition of WELT am SONNTAG I write about the Blaufränkisch wines of winemakers Markus Hammer Read the full article…
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