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MANFRED KLIMEK
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13 May 26 / wineparty

Are we losing Sauternes? On the never-ending sales crisis in the world's most famous sweet-wine region

(Manfred Klimek) In winegrowing, there are disasters that happen because they are caused by climate, weather, vermin and politics: frost, hail, phylloxera, war. And then there are declines that take place almost silently. Nobody demonstrates against them, nobody writes manifestos, nobody glues themselves to wine barrels. The bottles simply remain where they are. A little longer each year. Until at some point it becomes clear Read the full article…

12 May 26 / wineparty

Orbit without Obauers: One of the most legendary restaurants in the Alpine region is closing. After 47 years. And forever

(Manfred Kimek / Claude Auguste / Editorial team / animated pic: ORF, runwayml) Restaurants close because the money is lacking. Others close because the children do not want to take over – or there are no children at all. Still others disappear because time passes them by. And then there are the Obauers in Werfen. A restaurant that, after 47 Read the full article…

11 May 26 / wineparty

Sharing is Caring: Why almost all German winegrowers really do not understand social media at all

(Manfred Klimek / Editorial team) German winegrowers have understood the internet. And that is precisely their problem. Because social media is not the internet of the early 2000s. No longer a homepage, newsletter, PDF price list and carefully worded business philosophy. Social media is not a digital trade-fair stand. Not an extended PR office. Not a wine guide in motion. Social media is something much Read the full article…

7 May 26 / wineparty

20 years of Battenfeld-Spanier. Mr Auguste delivers his devotional objects.

(Claude Auguste / Editorial team / animated pic: runwayml) Twenty years ago, Carolin Spanier and Hans Oliver Spanier were not merely considered ambitious in Rheinhessen. Many considered them slightly mad. Two young, good-looking members of the bourgeoisie who were convinced that Rheinhessen of all places – this region about which people in the Rheingau and on the Mosel like to Read the full article…

5 May 26 / wineparty

What cures cancer also cures winegrowing? A new RNA treatment is revolutionising pest control

(Editorial team) Winegrowing long understood itself as a system that functions from within itself, from nature. Vine, soil, climate – that was all it needed, according to the classic narrative. Everything else was regarded as a disruption. Or as a corrective that was kept as invisible as possible. This narrative persists to this day, also because it above all Read the full article…
Zum Tag der Arbeit: Wein war einst im europäischen Süden das Getränk der Arbeiterschaft. Eine Erinnerung an vermeintlich klassenloses Trinken

1 May 26 / wineparty

For International Workers’ Day: Wine was once the drink of the working classes in the European south. A reminder of supposedly classless drinking

(Manfred Klimek / pic: Bundesarchiv, animation: runwayml) 1 May is a day on which we talk about the working class. And about work – manual work, the kind that needs hands. About production, about classes, about the conditions that force people into certain roles – or enable them to break free from them. And it is a Read the full article…

28 April 26 / wineparty

Revisited: Jochen & Christian Dreissigacker, not Masters of Disaster but German masters of Pinot Blanc

(Manfred Klimek, editorial team, animated pic: runwayml) There are some careers, but not many in German winegrowing, that can be told almost too smoothly in retrospect: rise, clear direction, success – as happened to some over the past twenty years; especially in Rheinhessen. In the case of Jochen Dreissigacker, who runs the winery together with his congenial brother Christian Read the full article…

24 April 26 / wineparty

Little green men: The surprising boom in new small wine bottles in Berlin

(Editorial team) Small shifts in everyday life through which major crises can be recognised. Not in editorials, not in columns of figures, not in the industry’s familiar, ever-repeated complaints. But in places where we would not expect to find them. In Berlin, for example, at the Späti. Between mate, beer and cigarettes. They are standing there now. 250 millilitres of wine. Screw cap. Very often Read the full article…
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