Category Archives: Lifestyle
Giant Autumn Wachau Panorama
Tasting at Bründlmayer and Bründlmayer Heurigenhof
Visit to Weingut Bründlmayer: top-tier modern producer with tradition
Visit to Weingut Birgit Eichinger
Why Good Wine Fans Make Bad Photographers
To be both a photographer and a wine fan is no easy task. It seems the two interests are always in opposition. During a winery visit for example, you can either take a lot of pictures, or taste a lot of wine. It’s really quite difficult to do both (well) simultaneously, and usually one takes precedence over the over. And if you start the visit tasting the wine, rather than taking photos, well then all hope can be quickly lost.
There are also a host of other factors that make winery photography challenging. For example, who will be at the meeting, the winemaker or another staff member? Is the weather favorable for a visit into the vineyards, and if so, will there be fruit on the vine? Ripe or unripe? Is anything going on in the cellar today, pressing, pumping, bottling?
And so it is that each winery visit is, indeed, just a ‘snapshot’ of the winery, of its people, and of course, of its wines.
My visits seem to fit this model perfectly. I do the best I can, but the more engaging the company and the more fascinating the wines, the fewer great photos I seem to walk away with. It’s best perhaps to stay out of the tasting room as long as possible and hope there is enough time to taste the wines. Or alternatively, just leave the camera in the trunk of the car!
Coming up next: winery visits in Austria’s Kamptal region – Weingut Birgit Eichinger and Weingut Bründlmayer.
Weinlaubenhof Kracher: 50+ dessert wines, plus a few dry wines you will never taste
Best meals ever – remembering El Celler de Can Roca
Winery visits
Planned winery visits with confirmed apppointments!
Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012. Burgenland
Winery Kracher, Illmitz
www.kracher.at
Winery Peter Schandl. Rust
www.schandlwein.com
Thursday, Oct 25, 2012. Kamptal
Winery Birgit Eichinger, Strass
www.weingut-eichinger.at
Winery Bründlmayer, Langenlois
www.bruendlmayer.at
Friday, Oct 26, 2012. Wachau
Winery F.X. Pichler, Dürnstein
www.fx-pichler.at
Winery Alzinger, Dürnstein
www.alzinger.at
More info at AustrianWine.com