Meininger Award honors vintners with passion

GERMANY (Ihringen) – Vintner or doctor? As early as 15 years ago, he was “newcomer of the year”, now the editors of the Gault&Millau wine guide awarded Joachim Heger with the honorary title of “vintner of the year...

ITALY (Verona) - For the third time, the wine magazine Decanter has received the Grandi Cru d´Italia award, which is given under chairman Vittorio Frescobaldi and which stems from an association of Italy's top 100...

AUSTRIA (Eisenstadt) - As part of a festive graduation ceremony at the Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt and Schloss Vollrads in the Rheingau region, a total of 35 graduates of the “Diploma in Wines and Spirits”, a...

GERMANY (Escherndorf) - At this year's International Wine and Spirit Competition the winery Horst Sauer was among the German wine producers with the most awards for its wines beside the wineries Schloss Reinhartshausen,...

GERMANY (Iphofen) – The director and author Hiltrud Reiter from Sommerach was awarded with the Franconian wine tourism prize in Iphofen (county of Kitzingen/Unterfranken) yesterday. The tourism association Franconia,...

AUSTRIA (Vienna) - Gerhard Retter, director of the Fischerklause Lütjensee in Eastern Hamburg, is Austria's best sommelier. He will represent his home country, which he has been neglecting for some years out of...

ITALY (Tyrol) - In a multi-level selection procedure, the international jury, among which were oenologists, sommeliers and wine journalists from Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Japan, selected the "Vernatsch of the year...

GERMANY (Berlin/Offenburg) - The "ark of taste", to which the Slow Food is rescuing livestock, plants but also traditional products which are close to be forgotten, has a new passenger: the "Klingelberger 1782". Thus,...

GERMANY (Wachau) - For centuries, the International Institute of Masters of Wine (IMW) based in London has been offering the training for the worldwide popular Master of Wine (MW). Roman Horvath, currently director of...

GERMANY (Stuttgart) - On the occasion of the ARTVINUM Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart, Alexander Laible was named best junior vintager in Europe. Thus, he is following in the foot steeps of the French Stéphane...