Martin Maria Schwarz, editor at German radio station HR2, conducted an hour-long interview with Stefan Pegatzky from Sur-la-pointe.com. It was broadcast at the end of September as part of the series “Doppelkopf. Menschen, die was zu sagen haben” (Doppelkopf. People who have something to say) and is now available as a podcast. The topics: champagne, wine criticism, and the quality of food in Germany. Click here for the podcast.
About Sur-la-pointe: My name is Stefan Pegatzky. Since 2014, I have been writing in classic print media as a journalist and author, mainly about food and drink. The close cooperation with the Tre Torri publishing house and “FINE-Das Weinmagazin” has so far resulted in over 100 reports from all over the world and numerous background essays. In addition, I have been involved in a good 20 book productions so far. My 2021 volume “Champagne. Die 100 wichtigsten Maisons, Winzer und Kooperativen” was awarded the German Cookbook Prize in gold as the best wine book of the year. For Hagen Hoppenstedt, Beverage Manager of the KaDeWe in Berlin, I am simply “The Brain of Champagne”. Between 2022 and 2024, I wrote about the French wine industry in particular for the industry magazine “Wein+Markt“. In the news ticker and the “faxline” mailing, my articles bore the abbreviation “peg”. Since this year, I have also been working for the Meiniger publishing house, which that is “Weinwirtschaft“, “Meininger’s Sommelier” and “Champagne Magazin” (in short news as “sp”).
