Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Beethovenhaus wine



This is the label of a bottle of Beethovenhaus wine I actually bought here in Hong Kong. The wine comes from a heurige (wine tavern which grows its own wine) where Beethoven stayed in 1817 when he worked on his famous Ninth Symphony (Choral Symphony), in which he set Schiller's Ode an die Freude in the final movement. Beethoven lived in dozens of house in Vienna for many years and all of these lay claim to being a former Beethoven residence. One is a bistro with an impressive beer menu (Beethovenhaus Bierteufl), whilst this tavern is still serving its own wines accompanied by typical Austrian bar food like it used to in Beethoven's time. I drank this wine a long time ago, and my impression was of a fairly ordinary white wine. Nevertheless, its provenance is interesting enough for me to have a taste of it. Who knows, maybe Beethoven had some of the same wine whilst he was staying in this tavern all those years ago!

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