Judith Beck Bambule! Furmint 2023

The German playwright Bertolt Brecht argued that art is not merely for entertainment, but to unsettle, to provoke thought and challenge our assumptions. Art, he claimed, should incite. Few works fit this notion as aptly as Bambule - Revuelta, the film penned by Ulrike Meinhof in 1970, which stirred such controversy that it was ultimately censored. Its script condemned the authoritarian methods in homes and juvenile centres, depicting an uprising against oppressive structures. Beyond the specific narrative, the film acts as an uncomfortable mirror of its era's society: rigid hierarchies, imposed discipline, and a youth beginning to say enough. Cinema with nerve, uncompromising. Years later, Bambule emerges in a vastly different context, far from the screen and closer to the earth. Not as a citation or explicit homage, but as a word imbued with energy. This is the name of the wine range by Judith Beck, a winemaker in Burgenland, Austria, heir to a family estate and a very personal ph