Talking about 1811 and wine, there is a little fragment poem by Goethe around the 'West- oestliche Divan' about the "Eilfer" in ghazelic form (the rhyme of every second line is 'Eilfer'), praising the wine of this year from Rhine, Main and Neckar - not mentioning comets though. Interesting to hear it was a comet year. Which comet was it ?
Walter Hedderich [email protected]
