Wine accompanied Goethe throughout his life until his last hour. We know from Goethe's mother that without wine, the poet might not have survived. He came into the world, as he writes in "Poetry and Truth," "as if dead," and his first sensual experience was the smell and life-giving effect of the wine with which he was rubbed. In a wine biography, the editors explore Goethe's experiences with the sweet juice of the vines. As the grandson of a wine merchant, who discovered precious wines in the cellar of his parents' house, Goethe did not forgo his life elixir, neither in Weimar nor during his travels. "If one cannot love, one should not drink": This volume gathers poems, songs, notes, and letters by Goethe about wine. Finally, one learns more about Goethe's favorite wines in a wine study; his maxim was: "For worries.".