Wine Plus
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| The European wine network | |
| Wine portal | |
| languages | German and English |
| operator | Utz Graafmann |
| Registration | not mandatory |
| On-line | 1998 |
| http://www.wein-plus.eu | |
Wein-Plus is an internet portal on the subject of wine .
Wein-Plus was founded in 1998 by Utz Graafmann, who runs the company as managing director in a GmbH with around 20 permanent employees. The headquarters are in Erlangen .
Content
The portal offers a wine guide, a wine glossary and an online magazine. Wine critic Marcus Hofschuster and his team taste, describe and evaluate wines for the wine guide . Negative evaluations are sometimes the subject of disputes. The ALDI company repeatedly asked Wein-Plus to remove an unfavorable rating of some ALDI wines. In addition, the wine producers and wine regions are described and special wine collections are awarded annually. The Wein-Plus glossary contains explanations of around 22,000 wine terms.
There is also a wine search engine and a web catalog. The content is editorially created by wine experts.
Some parts of the website are reserved for paying members.
distribution
The content is published on the Wein-Plus.eu domain in German and English (as of April 2017). The German language offer consists of more than 500,000 pages, the English language offer is less comprehensive.
According to the operator, over 200,000 users have registered on the Internet platform so far. Most of them use the German pages and come from the German-speaking area.
Wein-Plus only exists as an Internet offer, no printed wine guide is published.
Wine guide
Wines are regularly tested, described and rated for the Wein-Plus wine guide by a permanently employed tasting team led by Marcus Hofschuster. The wine tastings take place blind (i.e. without the knowledge of the producer) and always in the neutral tasting room of the Wein-Plus editorial team, i.e. not at trade fairs or at the producer himself.
The wine guide is focused on Europe and lists the top 10 percent of European wineries (as of June 2017).
The best assortment submitted each year within a growing area is awarded the collection of the year every year . In 2017 these were the following producers:
- Germany
- Kreuzberg winery, Ahr
- Winery Dr. Heger, Baden
- Hans Wirsching winery, Franconia
- Fritz Haag winery, Mosel
- Schäfer-Fröhlich winery, Nahe
- Wageck-Pfaffmann, Palatinate
- Balthasar Ress, Rheingau
- Schätzel winery, Rheinhessen
- Gerhard Aldinger winery, Württemberg
In addition to the collection of the year, there is also a list of the discoveries of the year . This award is given to those wineries that have made the biggest leap in quality in their current area. In 2017 these are the following wineries:
- Germany
- Sven Nieger, Baden
- Ecological viticulture Kraemer, Franconia
- Lubentiushof, Moselle
- Sinß winery, Nahe
- Oliver Zeter, Palatinate
- Bibo & Runge, Rheingau
- Bischel winery, Rheinhessen
- Knauß winery, Württemberg
Authors
Marcus Hofschuster is responsible for the wine guide, the wine glossary with almost 22,000 keywords comes from Norbert Franz-Josef Tischelmayer . In the wine magazine articles by numerous renowned authors such as Stuart Pigott , Wolfgang Faßbender , Uwe Kauss, Andreas Essl, Eva Dülligen and Carsten Stammen appear.
Publications
- Norbert Tischelmayer: Tischelmayer's Wine Glossary - 2777 terms relating to wine - NP Buchverlag, Vienna, ISBN 3-853261779 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Wild garbage dump" in the Focus Online exit
- ↑ Wein-Plus: Germany's Collection of the Year ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . German Wine Institute
