BASF is into just about everything, including wine. We toured the compnay’s Weinfachgeschaft, which handles about a million bottles of wine a year – about 2,000 different labels. Most are German wines, but they also handle a nice selection from around Europe and some other countries as well. BASF even has its own private label wines.
So, this was part of the reason I ended up quite ill last night – a glorious wine tasting with our host. It was great, but combined with jet lag, lack of sleep, lack of food, and just general exhaustion it was not so good for my system. We started out with a wonderful sparkling wine toast and followed up with a selection of eight different wines, both white and red, from the Palatinate region here in Germany, as well as one each from Portugal, Italy, Spain and France.
More later from today’s global BASF news conference.