Comet vintages

Comet wine is a designation for particularly good wines. The term goes back to the year 1811, in which not only the comet appeared Flaugergues, but also the supposedly best wine of the century was brought forth. The weather conditions were very favorable: " At a moderately cold winter already followed in February of the beginning of a dry and warm spring weather, which continued until May, the summer came in May and he was followed by a warm and long autumn. " Wine is described as "a true nectar. Yield abundant, a paragon, sweet, rich in spirit and strong. " Since then repeated attempts a statistical relationship between the appearance of comets and the quality of vintages produce, which also manages one refers only to the correct wine region.

Supposedly Goethe refers in West-Eastern Divan on this "penalty " - ( Eilfer ) wine:

" Do not put me, you ruffian, I the pitcher so rough in my face! Who brings me wine, look at me kindly, Otherwise the Eilfer tarnishes glass. "

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy changed Goethe's text easily and composes his Turkish Give Song, Op 50/1:

" Do not put me, you ruffian, the pitcher so rough in my face! Who brings wine, look kindly at me, otherwise the penalty becomes cloudy in the glass. "