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There are people who earn their living by sniffing. This is not surprising when it comes to dogs, but when it comes to people, people stop and think. In France, for example, you are a highly paid celebrity if you can call yourself a " grand nez " - because that's the people who compose perfumes.
For a sommelier and winemaker, the nose is also a tool, and a cold means that the person is completely unable to work. We need to find out at some point whether our health insurance companies understand and accept this. Because before it reaches the palate, the " bouquet " of the wine is detected by the nose. Bouquet is French and means...
We have three highlights to announce in May!
Highlight number 1 - Cold Sophie is over, the last day of the so-called Ice Saints. Since Thursday (May 16th) the danger of frost has officially been averted. And we can finally breathe a sigh of relief, because our delicate plants are no longer in danger. We were just extremely lucky this year, because in Saxony and Franconia, on the Moselle and in Rheinhessen there were very high losses due to severe frost: up to 90% of the buds froze to death.
The reason? ...
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.
Now that it is slowly getting warmer again, the discussion is reviving about how warm or cold a wine should be to fully develop its aroma. The answer could easily come from a lawyer, because it is:
It depends.
What?
We love springtime in Weyher. When everything around us slowly turns green again and the sap shoots back into the vines, our hearts beat faster. It's like a green rush after such a long time in grey and brown.
Therefore, in this newsletter we celebrate everything that is green and have come up with a spring offer for spring greenery :
