Donation campaign – connoisseurs of wine help Cinque Terre, which is in distress

ITALY (Lamporecchio) - After blazes, political intrigues and floods, the Cinque Terre region, Unesco world heritage and unique wine growing region, is on the verge of ruin. Destroyed vineyards, collapsed dry stone walls: That’s what the former wine and hiking paradise looks like today. “ As wine journalists, we do not want to stand and watch but set a sign of solidarity by supporting the vintners of region financially and morally!”, the Merum editorial department called.

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Château Guiraud hosts Chinese moon fest

FRANCE (Bordeaux) - Robert Peugeot, Olivier Bernard, Stephan von Neipperg and Xavier Planty, all owners of the Grand Cru Classé Château Guirand in Sauternes, are hosting a „Fete de la Luna d`Or“ (golden moon...

Wine Ball: Win a Rhinegau Vineyard for one year

GERMANY (Oestrich-Winkel) - The Rhinegau WinzerLoge is donating a very unusual prize for the Wine Ball: A 200 square meter large veineyard in the "Hattenheimer Hassel"-site for one year. The winner will receive around 150...

The VINEUS Wine Culture Award goes to the Second Round

AUSTRIA (Vienna) - On March 21st 2011 it is time again. The VINEUS Wine Culture Award will be awarded in five categories “sommeliers”, “hotel”, “food service”, “newcomer...

WEINELF Germany wins Indoor Masters

GERMANY (Kaiserslautern) - The WEINELF has won the indoor masters of top league of the hotel & restaurant sector. It is already a tradition that the German WEINELF ended its year at the soccer tournament of leading chefs...

World Premiere: Three Knolls together!

GERMANY (Munich/Wuerzburg) - It started with a spontaneous idea in Wuerzburg. Sandra and Ludwig Knoll, the owners of the winery am Stein, had invited the wine journalist Rudolf Knoll over. Somehow, they all started...

Two originals from Meissen – Fine wines meet exquisite porcelain

GERMANY (Meissen) - Wine and porcelain hold a close relationship since the start of porcelain manufacturing in Saxony. The Saxon wine cooperative Meissen invites to the event “porcelain and wine, two Meissen...

Austrian sparkling wine producers and their “Day of Sparkling Wine”

AUSTRIA (Vienna) - What German sparkling wine cellars did this year in May, already for the 13th time, will be a premiere in Austria on October 22nd: A Day of Sparkling Wine. The Kattus, Inführ and Szigeti wineries, and...

WEINELF schedules Wine European Football Championship in Hungary in 2011

HUNGARY (Budapest) – As in the final of the Football World Championship in 1954 between Germany and Hungary in Berne, it rained “incessantly” in Budapest last Friday. The players of the WEINELF took this...

KINOVINO - Inspiring wines on film

GERMANY (Mainz) – KINOVINO has been around for 15 years, it is an excellent mix of film and wine. KINOVINO combines two culture areas, the art of film and winemaking. It is a strong part of the Rhineland-Palatinate...

Festival of Wine Culture (“Weinkulturtage”) in the Bottwar Valley: ambitious and aspiring

GERMANY (Kleinbottwar) – They have found big shoes and they fit in brilliantly - the estate’s successors Marcel Wiedenmann, Andreas Roth and Markus Bruker. As successors, three of the six wine makers of the...