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(Manfred Klimek / Editorial team) For several days now, WINEPARTY has been receiving datasets from the wine trade anonymously via a Hotmail address. These are sales figures from large retailers, passed on to us by a whistle-blower. We are publishing these figures with all due caution. We cannot establish their origin beyond doubt and cannot verify them independently. Yet the material Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek) Even before the first bottle is opened here, Rieger winery reveals practically everything about itself. How so? The people make it so. We are in the Markgräflerland, in Germany’s deep south-west. In the winery’s tavern, Josepha and Bernhard Rieger serve their guests. They do not look like the senior owners they are, Read the full article…
(Gerhard Retter / pic: Manfred Klimek) We talk about almost everything in wine. About soils and rocks, about slate, limestone, loess or volcanic rock. About spontaneous fermentation, large wooden casks, long periods on the lees and that famous minerality which everyone describes and nobody can really explain. We speak surprisingly rarely about water. Probably precisely because water in Central Europe Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Editorial team / pic: royalityfree) There are always good moments to pause. For Wineparty, that moment has now arrived. As of today, we are saying goodbye for the summer break, which will last until 1 September. There will be one exception: the major wine features for WELT am SONNTAG will of course continue to appear here (above all Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Photo: Thomas Schwarz, Kloster am Spitz – a man of modernity) It is noticeable. Not scientifically – that remains to be seen. Not representative. But noticeable enough to think about. Whenever I write about low-alcohol or dealcoholised wines, the sharpest objections come almost exclusively from men. Mostly from my generation. Sometimes somewhat Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek – text & photo) For 10 years now, the wine industry has been discussing how alcohol-free wine can come as close as possible to classic wine. Yet a much more interesting field has long been opening up: new wines that do not want to give up alcohol completely; wines with four, six or eight per cent alcohol; wines with origin, fruit, acidity and a Read the full article…
(Gerhard Retter / Editorial team) Sylt is not one of those places where we expect Austrian fine wines. Outside, dunes, heathland and the North Sea define the landscape; inside, Jan-Philipp Berner has been cooking for years at a level that attracts attention far beyond Germany. It was precisely there that Austrian Wine invited guests to a grand tasting. After just a few glasses, the place Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / WELT am SONNTAG) German wine drinkers know their traditionally valuable wine-growing regions: the Moselle, the Rheingau, the Roter Hang in Rheinhessen, the expansive and multidiverse Palatinate, the beautiful slopes near Radebeul outside Dresden, and, to some extent, Baden too – above all the huge Kaiserstuhl vineyard hill. Yet deep in Germany’s deepest south-west, not Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / pic: Isna / source: BBC) It is often the smallest, most incidental reports that tell a bigger story. Amid headlines about power struggles in Tehran and analyses of Iran’s new-old leadership, this sentence appeared in a report that was rather hidden by the regime: alcohol, especially wine, would be served in restaurants in the cities Read the full article…
(Claude Auguste / pic: Sansibar Sylt) Klaus Peter Keller is one of the great wonders of German winegrowing. Not solely because he makes magnificent Rieslings – others do that too – but because, of all places, he established bottle prices in Rheinhessen that previously seemed conceivable only in Burgundy. Rheinhessen, for a long time synonymous with quantity, Liebfraumilch and agreeably unremarkable Read the full article…
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