Champagne had an exceptionally strong year in 2022. Also in Germany, which reported record turnover with over 12 million bottles sold – even if we fell back to 5th place internationally. At ProWein 2023, 50…
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ProWein 2023 in Düsseldorf was a strong statement from the leading international wine fair. Unfortunately, Wine Paris had also delivered a pretty strong performance a month earlier, and this one increasingly sees itself as a…
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The country reports of the industry magazine WEIN+MARKT are an annual assessment of the respective sector. With information on the domestic market and the last wine harvest, but above all with the latest export figures…
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In the first months of 1836, the Rhenish newspapers, the Prussian Staatszeitung, the Augsburger Allgemeine, the Amsterdam Handelsblatt and the most respected Parisian, London and St. Petersburg papers published an advertisement for a wine auction…
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Wine is in crisis. As a product in itself, in production and also in consumption. Alcohol has come under considerable neo-prohibitive pressure, built up by militant addiction prevention and an interventionist public health system. As…
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In 2016, the volume “Das Beste vom Geflügel” (The Best of Poultry) was published in the SZ Gourmet Edition series, a cooperation between Süddeutscher Zeitung and Tre-Torri-Verlag. The editorial part was written by me and…
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In the fall of 2022, the first bottles from Champagne Mumm’s RSRV collection were presented in Germany for the first time. SLP had reported on this. Now followed on February 16, 2023, the official presentation…
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Veronika Settele can tell stories. About gift cows from Mennonite donor associations in the young Federal Republic, the “Chicken War” between Germany and the USA and the East German pig fattening at Hermsdorfer Kreuz. She…
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Extreme drought prevailed in Champagne from March to August 2015. This means: the lowest rainfall ever recorded between budburst and picking, and at the same time the highest average daily temperatures. The year was a…
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As a professional critic, you drink a lot of good wines over the year. Especially if you write for “Fine” and run a blog “sur la pointe”. Evaluating a wine during a tasting is one…
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