wein.plus
Attention
You are using an old browser that may not function as expected.
For a better, safer browsing experience, please upgrade your browser.

Log in Become a Member

DSCN9057Sometimes one has inhibitions to write about something that is hardly ever written about. For example, about the "chance drink" at a seminar venue, where people sit together comfortably after the lectures and discussions. Most of the participants have a beer and the non-beer drinkers? They just look for a wine. The selection is small, usually only one or two wines each of the red and white ones. I'm glad if it's a local wine - not some non-committal growth from a wine region where so many mass-produced wines come from. So in my case it was a Badener from the Markgräferland winery, at least that's where it was bottled (according to the label). In Müllheim, as I still learn, the center of the wine region Markgräflerland. You can drink the wine, under the given circumstances (nightcap) it is even good. A long ernte-857474ad617fe16691e221830b37f29bIt does not need a long discussion, special sensory skills are not required in this case. Simply a wine to drink. And to forget? Hardly as a wine monument, but as a witness of a district in Freiburg i.Br. where vines still grow next to villas from the Gründerzeit. Just the connection of the wine name "Lorettoberg" connects with the place at the Höllentalbahn, where I - by chance - ended up. Not because of the wine, traveled through the Lorettotunnel, so also not because of the landscape. You hardly feel anything of it in the seminar rooms and there is no time for walks. So the regional or local wine is a welcome substitute. Suddenly, one does not only talk about the topic of the symposium, nor about the wine itself, but about the region, which is also a wine region. One talks about the wine culture, the wine tradition, the beauties and peculiarities of a region where wine grows. There is no need for a ranking - it is hardly possible with this cheap wine. But it loosens the tongue and makes - in all modesty - fun. I often have the feeling that this is far more than at many a wine seminar, where wine so often leads to almost abstract concepts, to sensory somersaults and preconceived judgments, not infrequently also to Beckmesserian discussions. I praise this little nightcap - it only accompanies me into the night.

Related Magazine Articles

View All
More
More
More
More
More
More
More
More
More
More

EVENTS NEAR YOU

PREMIUM PARTNERS