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(By Henry Crowhurst – UK / Editorial / animated pic: New South Wales Wines – Runwayml) Wales? That is the part of the UK that was given the Prince of Wales by the royal family so that the Welsh would leave their lances and swords in the cellar. It worked well (apart from the miners’ strike in the early 1980s). Read the full article…
https://wineparty.wine/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Hoppestrase-18.m4a (Manfred Klimek / Pic animated: Runwayml) Others do “poshcasts” (very modern at the moment); the chronically underfunded Wineparty (poor but sexy) simply holds its ageing iPhone up to the MacBook and records: Lenz Moser V on global wine-political questions, on the downturn and a new generation of wine drinkers in China, on emerging markets, on the great asset of word of mouth, on Read the full article…
(Nikolaus Skene) Sometimes you fancy a white wine. Sometimes a red. And after sport, a beer is also a wonderful thing. Nobody would think of ordering everything at once at precisely that moment. No sommelier in the world would say: “No problem, I’ll bring you white wine, red wine, beer, a steak, a towel, Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Pic animated: Runwayml) Rechnitz and Wösendorf, one place on the easternmost foothills of the Alps, the other on the southernmost edge of the Austrian Waldviertel – places that could not be more different. Yet we must linger here longer, because wines are poured here as though they were arguments – no, they are! Rechnitz – the anti-idyll Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Pic animated: Runwayml) My winter journey among winemakers continues, intended to explain the winegrowers and their worldview and broad outlook – at a time when everyone working in oenology has to acquire a formidable set of tools in order to respond to a totally changing market. Today: the sound of two winemaking couples. First stop: Rheinhessen. The red Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Pic Animation: Runwayml) Even before she met Marco Kalchbrenner, Jutta Ambrositsch was a brilliant young Carinthian graphic designer in Vienna. One who could not merely read typography, but think it. Marco, in turn, came from text, from language, from the precise placement of meaning – and there he was, the South Burgenlander, likewise one of the Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Claude Auguste) At the beginning of a year that, from an early stage, cast harsh looks towards the future of wine, the universe of vines has lost two personalities who, each in their own way, shaped the tradition, expression and self-understanding of great wine culture: Pierre Trimbach from Alsace and Daniel Cathiard from Bordeaux. Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Björn Grebner) It is not a story of a straight line, but one of arcs of courage, mistakes and, finally, a more intimate and better finale. Born in 1996 out of an understandable longing: three winemakers, three visions, a single dream: an Austrian red wine that aspired to create its own Tignanello. Not a copy, but a Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek) I have been travelling around Burgenland for three days. I visit winemakers, sit in tasting rooms, drive through vineyards, and drink with concentration and attention, usually euphorically. And with almost equal concentration, something else is poured for me – not by the winemakers I visit, mind you: rumours. Half-sentences. Hints. Disparaging remarks about precisely those estates at which Read the full article…
(Manfred Klimek / Björn Grebner) Yesterday afternoon at Gerhard Kracher’s in Illmitz was a wonderful moment. Not pathetic, but remarkably sober – and precisely for that reason possessed of a quiet force, full of positive energy (which we urgently need in times like these). Gerhard Kracher is 44 years old. At 23, he took over the winery after the Read the full article…
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