Quo vadis, Vinum?
Monday 20 January 2014
On Friday Stephan Reinhardt (pictured here by Martin Hemmi) announced that he had resigned as the chief editor of Swiss-German wine magazine Vinum. Having taken up the post only at the beginning of last year, he was announcing the end of a short and apparently quite torrid affair. Stephan is one of the most talented and knowledgeable wine writers and critics in Germany, and at the time Vinum could hardly have made a better appointment. We all looked forward to a fresh breeze of new ideas in the sails of a magazine that had become a little set...
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