Re: Juenger, wine and comets

[Bertil Haggman <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

Wahe@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Did some searching myself about the 1811 comet, which I should have done in
> the first place: It was first reported by a Frenchman called Flaugergues and
> must have been the last one of the size of current Hale-Bopp. Detailed
> information on observations under
> 
>   http://medicine.wustl.edu/~kronkg/1811.html

Dear Mr. Hedderich,

Thank you very much for the research on the 1811 comet (Flaugergues'
Comet ?).
Thank you also for striking a blow for German wines, although personally
I prefer Alsace/Elsass wines. Not that I cannot from time to time
enjoy an Italian wine or a South American wine (preferably Chilean).
In my view the quality in wine does not depend on the climate but
on the excellence of the winemaker. I am sure a check of wine auction
catalogues
would confirm the highest prices are on the French wines.

But I´m straying off the topic. Apologizing I am trying to get out of it
by a few quotes from _Auf den Marmorklippen_ although I must admit the
strongest passage in my book is the disaster description as metaphor for
World
War II. But now it is wine:

";und man versorgte sich mit Wein und Brot, da auf den Inseln die Rebe
nicht gedeiht. Es fehlen dort die kuehlen Naechte im Herbst, in denen
der Tau sich auf
die Trauben schlaegt und so iht Feuer durch eine Ahnung des Unterganges
an Geist gewinnt."

or

"An solchen Tagen, die der Spleen regierte, schlossen wir auch die
Tueren,
die zum Garten fuehrten, da uns der frische Blumenduft zu feurig war. Am
Abend schickten wir Erio in die Felsenkueche, damit Lampusa ihm
einen Krug von jenem Weine fuelle, der im Kometenjahr gekeltert war."

Tonight is Walpurgisnight in Scandinavia. Reason to raise a glass of
wine.

Greetings

Bertil Haggman
bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se



> To Umberto Rossi finding the French climate unfavourable, I just get
> acquainted with wines from Elbe and Saale/Unstrut, rivers leading to the
> North Sea and, believe it or not, they do work, even in between comets ;-)
> 
> Walter Hedderich
> Wahe@aol.com