Cool Climate Wine Summit

We visit Paul de Watteville of Domaine de Montbenay in Mont-sur-Rolle, in the vineyards above Lake Geneva. The estate has been in his family since 1543; Paul runs its eight hectares with his father Maurice. We talk about why Chasselas, born at Lake Geneva, is "the sponge of the terroir", a 25-year-old Chasselas, a fortified Chasselas inspired by port, his sélection massale Pinot Noir wit...

We visit Oliver Schell of Weingut O. Schell in Rech on the Ahr, the fourth generation of an estate founded in 1921, with 70 % of its eight hectares on steep terraces. He explains why this narrow valley makes great red wine and how the flood changed his winemaking. We taste his first PIWI, a Sauvignon Gris called "I can't believe it's a PIWI", and his Spätburgunder from the Recher...

We visit Karin Hvidtfeldt and winemaker Lou Langdon of Hideaway Vingaard on Fejø, a small island off Lolland in southern Denmark. They explain how the sea gives Fejø about 200 more hours of sunshine than the Danish average, how the estate began with Karin's late husband Michael Gundersen in 2006, and what they learned from Jens Heinemeyer. We talk about free-range geese, organic rules that wer...

We visit Lara Mindnich of Weingut Mindnich, a family estate of about eight hectares on the Nahe. Standing in a young vineyard full of poppies and bees, she talks about learning winemaking from her father, her role models Juliane Eller and Pauline Baumberger, and why a region with more than 180 soil types has no single Riesling style. She explains green slate, how her father simply said "just...

Zu Besuch in Remerschen, in der Gemeinde Schengen, am Dreiländereck von Luxemburg, Deutschland und Frankreich: Marie Kox führt die Domaine Sunnen-Hoffmann in sechster Generation, zusammen mit ihrer Mutter. Es geht darum, warum in Luxemburg „Crémant immer geht“, um einen Brut Nature ohne Dosage und ohne Schwefel, um den unterschätzten Auxerrois aus der ersten Bio-Lage des Weinguts, um eine Crémant-...

We visit winemaker Michał Poddany of Winnica Rosenfeld in Podbiel, Mazovia, south-east of Warsaw. Of the 600 vines he planted in 2009, 12 survived two winters. He replanted, made seven vintages only to learn, and sold his first wine in 2023. He talks about his mentor at Marchesi Alfieri in Piedmont, the −18 °C limit for vinifera, the 2024 spring frost, why Pinot Noir is the easy grape in Poland, a...

Im Weinberg in Nittel an der Obermosel mit Max Frieden vom Weingut Frieden-Berg, mitten in der Lese 2026 und nach drei Tagen Starkregen, Luxemburg direkt am anderen Moselufer. Max erzählt vom Elbling, der alten heimischen Rebsorte, die noch 40 % der 14 Hektar ausmacht, von Crémant in traditioneller Flaschengärung, von seiner Liebe zu Chardonnay und Auxerrois, von der Zertifizierung durch Fair'...

Live from VieVinum 2026 in Vienna with Raphael of Weingut Kodolitsch in southern Styria, an exhibitor at CCWS Copenhagen 2026. Styria is Austria's southernmost wine region and, because it lies close to the Alps, also its coolest. We talk about single-vineyard Sauvignon Blanc, why a quarter of the estate is Riesling, Welschriesling as "the Styrian answer to Aligoté", 20 hectares of st...

Live von der VieVinum in Wien: Leo Aumann vom Weingut Leo Aumann aus der österreichischen Thermenregion. Das Interview entstand spontan nach einem Treffen auf der Magnum-Party. Es geht um den Satz „Pinot ist Pinot, kein Rotwein“, um ein Weingut in fünfter Generation, um Weingärten, in denen der Weinbau seit der Ankunft der Zisterzienser aus dem Burgund im Jahr 1141 nachgewiesen ist, um Handarbeit...

Live from VieVinum 2026 in Vienna: Michaela Riedmüller of Weingut Michaela Riedmüller in Carnuntum, an exhibitor at CCWS Copenhagen 2026. She took over the family estate at 19. We talk about wind and the Danube, Spitzerberg vs. Braunsberg Blaufränkisch, the flower labels, oak and minimal intervention, and the estate's final year of organic conversion. Interview in English. In the glass: Brauns...

A master class by Jan Eggers, founder of the Cool Climate Wine Summit, at the first CCWS in Warsaw. It runs from healthy soils to healthy grapes to healthy wine. Seven wines from organic and biodynamic producers show what low-intervention winemaking means, how it differs from natural wine, and why it doesn't have to taste funky. It also covers Germany's organic associations Demeter, Ecovin...

Kurz vor der Lese 2025 zu Besuch bei Peter Siener vom Weingut Siener in Birkweiler in der Südpfalz. Im Schatten geht es um den Kastanienbusch, um Weine, die Zeit bekommen, um einen Lesebeginn, der heute bis zu sieben Wochen früher liegt, um soziale Nachhaltigkeit im Betrieb und um die Frage, warum Peter am liebsten nach Norwegen auswandern würde. Bevor er 2000 ins Familienweingut einstieg, lernte...

Pinot Noir Master Class with MW Wojciech Bońkowski at Cool Climate Wine Summit Warsaw 2026

Bürklin-Wolf

The Bodensee spans across Germany's southern boarder with Switzerland and France. Despite being the southmost region of German winemaking, the style here is surprisingly fresh and lean thanks to the altitude and alpine influence. Meet Klaus Rebholz with us, who introduces us to Weingut Rebholz' philosophy and their Burgundy-inspired Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines. Follow us on Social Media Instag...

Recorded live at the Cool Climate Wine Summit, Warsaw. Denmark is one of the most unlikely wine regions in Europe: 180 hectares spread across a country of more than 400 islands, between 55 and 58 degrees north, with cool summers, very long days, and high natural acidity in nearly every bottle. In this masterclass from the Cool Climate Wine Summit in Warsaw, Danish winemaker Lou Langdon leads a tas...

Drive south of Berlin, follow a forest road until a vineyard appears on a plateau, and look to the horizon: five kilometres away, the excavators of an active open-cast coal mine are still at work. This is Weingut Wolkenberg, and the soil under the vines is not ancient. It was engineered from mining spoil and recultivated in a research programme with Geisenheim University that began in 2005. Weingu...

Recording from our Impulse tasting at ProWein 2026 - Nordic Sparkling Wines. Presenting: Dyrehæj Johanniter Brut (Denmark, Røsnæs) Lottenlund Perlé Souvignier Gris (Sweden, Skåne) Dom Janton Blanc de Blancs Seyval Blanc (Poland, Central Poland) Skærsøgaard DONS Rosé Cabernet Cortis, Rondo, Pinot Noir Précoce

Bob Molling didn't plan to become a winemaker. He spent six months studying economics, realised a desk wasn't his future, and eventually found his way to the vineyards of the Luxembourg Moselle via an apprenticeship, a harvest in South Africa, and a phone call from his grandmother. Today he runs Molling Wines with his wife — 4.2 hectares, around 25,000 bottles a year, and a philosophy that...

Philipps-Mühle

Getting to Saxony took three attempts. The harvest kept intervening. When Jan Eggers finally arrived at VDP. Weingut Schloß Proschwitz, head winemaker Björn Probst was in the middle of picking — and still made time to talk.   Proschwitz is one of eastern Germany’s landmark estates: 75 hectares, just completed organic certification, and home to one of the world’s last significant plantings of Goldr...

Schloß Saarstein

Interviewing the exhibitors at the Cool Climate Wine Summit 2026 in Copenhagen. This time, Sandro Sperk from VDP. Weingut Böhme & Töchter from Germany's Saale-Unstrut region. About the Cool Climate Wine Summit The Cool Climate Wine Summit 2026 takes place on 10-11 Jan, 2026 in Copenhagen. Here, you can meet 160 winemakers from cool climate wine growing regions like Denmark, Germany, Poland...

Graenicher

Interviewing the exhibitors at the Cool Climate Wine Summit 2026 in Copenhagen. This time, Stefanie Vornhecke from Weingut Stefanie Vornhecke in the German Mosel region. About the Cool Climate Wine Summit The Cool Climate Wine Summit 2026 takes place on 10-11 Jan, 2026 in Copenhagen. Here, you can meet 160 winemakers from cool climate wine growing regions like Denmark, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Sw...