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(Claude Auguste / Photo: Meinklang winery / animated pic: runwayml) There is hardly any symbol that is as charged in early spring as the egg. At Easter it is painted, hidden and searched for – as a strange metaphorical promise of life and new beginnings – perhaps also a little as consolation for the fact that everything starts all over again; including Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / WELT am SONNTAG / Photo: Klimek / animated pic: runwayml) Roland Velich talks about wine as if it were geopolitics. That is irritating. But Velich, 63 years old and a winemaker in Großhöflein, a municipality just south of Eisenstadt, the capital of the Austrian Burgenland – and known for the magnificent Blaufränkisch wines of his Moric winery in Read the full article…
(Sebastian Höpfner / Manfred Klimek – editorial team / animated pic: Rutz & runwayml) I thought for a long time about whether I should write this down at all. Because so much is happening right now. Because the wine world is changing as profoundly as it has in a long time. And because much of it is not easy to grasp. Drinking habits are changing. Young people Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / using a source from drinksbusiness.com / animated pic: runwayml) The wine world loves simple explanations. It is no different from many other sectors in that respect. For years, direct sales were one of these simple explanations and solutions. Too many winemakers sell directly, it was said. The trade would be hollowed out, the market damaged. A neat narrative Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek) Week after week, a wine recommendation from me appears in WELT AM SONNTAG beneath the recipe of the week. It is precisely chosen, often tasted very consciously – and yet unfortunately remains little more than a marginal note. Unlike the column, which presumably many more people read. Time, then, to publish these tips individually. Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek) Michel Rolland was not someone who simply wanted to make wine better. With Rolland, someone has left us who wanted to change it. And did change it. The Bordeaux oenologist, who died in Bordeaux on the night of 19–20 March at the age of 78, was one of those figures against whom Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / animated pic: runwayml) (Below this article you will find a link to a portrait of Adi Werner on KALK & KEGEL by Joachim Heidersdorf) Adi Werner turned 90 on 11 March. And with him, a form of hospitality has become visible that is rarer today: the old-school patron. Someone who does not moderate, but Read the full article…
(Thorsten Kogge / editorial team / Pic: Messe Karlsruhe / Animation: rumwayml) No one in the world had been waiting for it. Except for a few people in Karlsruhe and the surrounding area – EUROVINO, which has only just ended. Another wine fair? In a market that already knows more dates than good arguments? At first, it sounds like a Read the full article…
(Claude Auguste / Manfred Klimek – editorial team / Photo: Messe Düsseldorf) It begins with a number that seems like a portent in the wine world, but need not be one: between 2023 and 2026, Prowein has shrunk from 13 to 7 halls. And even these seven halls no longer seem as they once did – two of them are Read the full article…
(Claude Auguste) With Guy Bonnefoit, a person has left the wine world who today seems like a relic from another era. Not because his work was outdated – quite the opposite. But because the world in which it came into being was a different one: a time when wine was not discussed as a lifestyle accessory or moral problem, but Read the full article…
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