Manners, Didier! Seriously, I can see why people don't like him, but since it's not a capital crime to pull no punches when it comes to marketing, I can't get too worked up myself. My answer would be to go for people like Martin Müllen oder Hans-Peter Ziereisen instead. As to the Kirchenstück story, I tracked back the original discussion to here
and need to amend my original formulation somewhat: It seems that Schneider only implicitly and indirectly made use of the greater prestige of the "other" Kirchenstück, not actively. Sorry. I'll revise my earlier comment in a minute.
In reply to What a jerk! by Vimpressionniste
Re: Controversial Schneider
Manners, Didier! Seriously, I can see why people don't like him, but since it's not a capital crime to pull no punches when it comes to marketing, I can't get too worked up myself. My answer would be to go for people like Martin Müllen oder Hans-Peter Ziereisen instead. As to the Kirchenstück story, I tracked back the original discussion to here
http://www.talk-about-wine.de/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2427&whichpage=2
and need to amend my original formulation somewhat: It seems that Schneider only implicitly and indirectly made use of the greater prestige of the "other" Kirchenstück, not actively. Sorry. I'll revise my earlier comment in a minute.