Comet wine
Comet wine is a term for particularly good wines .
history
The term goes back to the 1811 vintage , when not only the comet Flaugergues appeared, but also the supposedly best wine of the century. The weather conditions were extremely favorable: "A moderately cold winter was followed by the beginning of dry and warm spring weather in February, which lasted until May, summer came in May and was followed by a warm and long autumn." The wine is described as “A real nectar . Abundant yield, a paragon, sweet, rich in spirit and strong. ”Since then, attempts have been made again and again to establish a statistical relationship between the occurrence of comets and the quality of vintages, which is only possible if one only relates to the correct wine-growing region.
Allegedly, Goethe refers to this "Elfer" (Eilfer) wine in the west-eastern Divan :
“Don't put
the mug in front of my nose , you rascal !
If you bring me wine, look at me in a friendly manner,
otherwise the Eilfer will become cloudy in the glass. "
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy slightly changed Goethe's text and composed his Turkish Schenkenlied op. 50/1:
“Don't put the jug so roughly in front of my nose, you rascal!
If you bring wine, look at me in a friendly manner, otherwise the 911 will become cloudy in the glass. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Memories of the years 1811, 1864, 1937 and 1949. Europe's winemakers hope for a top vintage. NZZ from June 26, 2003.
- ↑ Weingut Amlinger & Sohn: vintage chronicle.
- ^ Johann Wolfgang Goethe: West-Eastern Divan. (The gift book. To the waiter.) Text in Project Gutenberg .
- ↑ Turkish gift song in the General German Kommersbuch (Wikisource)
- ↑ Score from Mendelssohn's op. 50/1. In: Matthias Schmitt: Singing men in the Vormärz and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's songs for male choir. Sociological, biographical and compositional aspects. Master's thesis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 2011, urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30-92260 , pp. A-2 ff.