The return of the Weinbörse, part 1

Time is relative, Einstein theorised. Practical experience bears this out. Four years is irrelevant to the hills, but interminable for a couple separated while at university. And yet both perceptions are, in their own way, true.

And so it was that Paul-Michael Schäfer and his wife Simona Kruse (above), both of Weingut Burggarten, found themselves standing behind their estate’s booth at the Mainzer Weinbörse, giddy with excitement. ‘We are incredibly...