2024-01-31 09:47:35
If Marilyn Monroe knew from which opening she lets herself air her snow-white pleated dress, she would probably climb down into it straight away, and perhaps the notorious booze thrush down there would even enjoy life so much that she would still be in the same one. Marilyn has moved from the heart of Manhattan and Billy Wilder’s “Seven Year Itch” from Lexington Avenue at the corner of 52nd Street to the tranquil Rheingau wine-growing town of Geisenheim and now stands in her iconic pose no longer just above a New York subway shaft, but also above a breakneck spiral staircase that leads seven meters deep into an old, mold-stained wine cellar overgrown with yeast. Down here, some of the best German sparkling wine wines mature with peace of mind in shaking tables, and their creator is such an incorrigible oddball and arch-individualist that he chose the American sex goddess, not the saint Urban who is actually responsible for them, as the only legitimate patron saint of his sparkling wine treasury.
Awakening experience in Champagne
Jakob Strobel and Serra
Responsible editor of the travel magazine, deputy head of the features section.
Norbert Bardong has never cared about conventions in his almost seventy-year life and with this unorthodoxy he has become, alongside Volker Raumland, the most important pioneer of the top German winemaking sect – even though he has taken a completely different path than his Palatinate-Rhine-Hesse colleague. Bardong, who proudly describes himself as a “Rüdesheim native,” does not come from a winemaking family, but had a father who was not only at the local court, but also grew a Wingert for home use and knew a professor at the famous winemaking college in Geisenheim. The boy was sent to do an internship in vine cultivation and he was done for. During his studies in beverage technology at Geisenheim, he also completed a stage in Champagne, and that was when it happened to him a second time: Like Raumland, Bardong also had his life-shaping awakening experience there: “I learned from the people in Champagne that you can’t “Should work to live, but to enjoy,” says the winemaker, whose Falstaff character leaves no doubt about the seriousness with which he follows his motto of enjoying life.
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