Posts Tagged ‘Johann Strauss’
Hafner_c1_Short-Lesson_Red-Wine-Serving_EN.mp4
März 30th, 2012 | admin
This is a short lession about red wine serving and decanting as part of the collection of short movies, where the vintner Julius Hafner is presenting 40 of the most important wines of the HAFNER Family Estate, Burgenland Austria. www.hafner-icewine.com
Family-Estate_HAFNER_Icewine-Winery_Austria-Europe.mp4
März 30th, 2012 | admin
An image movie, showing Austria as a wine country. Vienna, the capital of Austria, is famous for music and culture – but also great wines grow here, by tradition! Especially the wine growing area near Lake Neusiedl (Neusiedlersee) in sunny Burgenland is an Eldorado for the vintner: here, crisp whites, full-bodied reds with character and noble sweet wines with style can be produced in every vintage! A very speciality is the Icewine, whereas Hafner Family Estate in 1971 was the first Austrian producer of this liquid-gold! Other famous products are Beeren- and Trockenbeerenauslese (BA and TBA) – noble sweet wines, made of raisin-like grape! TBA’s and Icewines from Austria are among the finest sweet wines in the world! Hafner Winery could win uncountable medals in int. wine competitions with these products! We are proud to share these specialties with you! Cheers! www.hafner-icewine.com
Hafner_a2_Short-Lesson_Winelanguage_EN.mp4
März 30th, 2012 | admin
This is a short lession about winelanguage, choice of glasses etc. – a part of the collection of short movies, where the vintner Julius Hafner is presenting 40 of the most important wines of the HAFNER Family Estate, Burgenland Austria. www.hafner-icewine.com
Johann Strauss – Cagliostro in Wein (Cagliostro in Vienna) – overture to the the operetta
März 27th, 2012 | admin
Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (2 June 1743 26 August 1795) was the alias for the occultist Giuseppe Balsamo (also called Joseph Balsamo), an Italian adventurer. He was born to a poor family in Albergheria, which was once the old Jewish Quarter of Palermo, Sicily Cagliostro claimed to be the son of the Prince and Princess of the Anatolian Christian Kingdom of Trebizond, orphaned and reared by the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta and, for several years, in the household of the Sheriff of Medina (who brought him up as a Christian.) He was prosecuted in the affair of the diamond necklace which involved Marie Antoinette and Prince Louis de Rohan, and was held in the Bastille for nine months but finally acquitted, when no evidence could be found connecting him to the affair. Nonetheless, he was asked to leave France, and departed for England. Here he was accused by Theveneau de Morande of being Giuseppe Balsamo, which he denied in his published Open Letter to the English People, forcing a retraction and apology from Morande. Cagliostro left England to visit Rome, where he met two people who proved to be spies of the Inquisition. Some accounts hold that his wife was the one who initially betrayed him to the Inquisition. On 27 December 1789, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Castel Sant’Angelo. Soon afterwards he was sentenced to death on the charge of being a Freemason. The Pope changed his sentence, however, to life imprisonment in the Castel Sant’Angelo. After …
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