The of the Chevaliers de Tastevin, so the complete name, is those brother shank of the knights or honourable people of the Weinverkoster.

1934, thus at a time, as the burgundischen winegrowers substantial paragraph concerns, and even with the Grand Cru situations, had, sought one after new ways, the conversions, and the yields, to thus increase. The desire developed to arouse the routistic interest of wealthy customers so that these should go after Burgund, in order to celebrate and with music meetings, play and lectures cultivated joy to experience. On the initiative of of Camille Rodier and Georges Faiveley, two winegrowers from Nuits Saint Georges, in the evening before the wine auction of the Hospice de Beaune was created on the famous de Vougeot in the midst of one of the most famous vineyards of the world the of the de Tastevin.

The brother shank commits its meeting with the introduction of new members, many speeches and - naturally - a costing of the best Burgunderweine of current and old production on first of the three fame-rich days Burgunds, the Trois Glorieuses.

One cannot join the brother shank simply, but one is recruited and introduced by defiency guarantees. Usually the is well-known winegrowers and wine merchants from Burgund with possession of in a Grand Cru situation. Or one is a politician, artists, or otherwise a famous personality, from whom one assumes that she stands Burgund and the Burgunder wine close and the brother shank with its membership promotes the goals, by recruiting for Burgund and its hochklassigen wine, as well as for the French culture and way of life.

From the result of the costing wines are which afterwards on their label with the term (cost of the brother shank) recruit may. This labeling affects itself - in Germany more than in France - on the one hand something praise-rubbing, on the other hand one there are however no bad wines, which the costing the brother shank passes.

The Tastevin is a small flat cup something similar bowl with a grasp and a thumb surface, usually from silver, into which a small sip of the Weines which can be tried is poured in. The reflecting surface, a soil mark and candle light make it possible, the optics, to submit the nose and the palate impression of wine an examination. The Tastevin is carried by the Chevaliers at a leather volume around the neck and always is with all this to the hand.

In the remaining wine world the possession of a Tastevin with a smile for an antiquatedness is regarded. The today's costing methods set on the trying glass. It does not harm however to know and be able to do both: an original silver Tastevin is a small object of the passion to the good wine, to get and not completely simply, if one is not of the Chevaliers de Tastevin.

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