Champagne had a difficult year in 2020 and a sensational year in 2021. In view of the continuing capacity bottlenecks at many houses, one could be curious about which wines the producers would present in…
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Today, luxury is no longer characterised by waste and excess. Rather, it is defined by sustainability and a sense of responsibility. Since the United Nations issued the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2016, not only…
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The first cookbook author What distinguishes the art of cooking from simple good food? Or from the luxury on display? Certainly it lives from the variety of good, sometimes rare ingredients. It requires a developed…
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Launched in 2007, Bar Convent Berlin with its mix of congress and trade fair is now one of the world’s most important meeting places for bar owners and bartenders on the one hand and the…
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The first wine was the Brut “sans année” of the house. There would be little to write about this if Roederer had not replaced its popular Brut Premier with the consecutively numbered Collection last year.…
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The world’s oldest recipe collection The invention of gastronomy did not take place in the Egypt of the first pharaohs, nor in the ancient Chinese civilisation on the Yellow River, nor in the early Indus…
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Martin Maria Schwarz, editor of HR2, the cultural program of Hessischer Rundfunk, conducted a one-hour interview with Stefan Pegatzky of Sur-la-pointe.com. At the end of September, it was published in the series “Doppelkopf. Menschen, die…
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This already started with the packaging. Or rather the packagings: For the Dom Ruinart 2010 came in a solid, foldable cardboard construction. In which, in turn, the real innovation of the house became visible, the…
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Doutrelant was more than just a wine journalist. From near Lille in northern France, he had started out at a local paper in Angers and then moved to Paris to “Le Monde,” where he dealt…
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The news had hit like a bomb in 2016. The takeover of the Italian winemaking icon Biondi-Santi by the French luxury group EPI on 1 January 2017. This was in the same league as the…
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