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Wine chat: unfiltered, straight from real life. With both feet deep in the Palatinate soil, hands sticky with grape juice, a head full of ideas and a heart full to the brim, just like the glasses.
This is not a textbook.
This is not a wine guide.
This is a piece of Palatinate winemaking life.
Welcome to the Palatinate.
Welcome to tradition & modernity.
Welcome to WeinGeplauder.
Anyone who stands in front of the wine shelf (and does not consider themselves a connoisseur) is often quite overwhelmed. So many names! So many quality specifications! What do I have to pay attention to? What does all this tell me? When different countries have been talking shop for hundreds of years and constantly adopting new definitions with many bureaucratic rules, it is no wonder that the result is an almost impenetrable jungle.
Honestly? Often you just buy the label you like, hoping that the contents will match.
Today we want to shed some light on the matter...
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