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New York Wine Diary: Day 17 – Dry Austrian Riesling Past & Present, and Nearly Always Great!

Although Austria is one of the most important producers of dry Riesling on Planet Wine the profile of these wines varies enormously from market to market, and here in the USA is well below the relative prominence and popularity of … Continue reading

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New York Wine Diary: Day 14 – Ernst Loosen Pushes the Mosel Riesling Envelope Yet Again

In more or less it’s present form the GG (Grosses Gewächs) category of single-vineyard dry German wines goes back to the 2002 vintage, and during those years a bunch of things about this category have become standard practice to the … Continue reading

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New York Wine Diary: Day 11 – Dear Citizens of Planet PR, please help me!

Dear Citizens of Planet PR, I thought that I understood you rather well, but now I realize that I may have completely  misunderstood you. I first encountered PR men and women more than 30 years ago, and I promise you … Continue reading

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New York Wine Diary: Day 7 – Yes, But…

As regular readers know, this blog has a positive attitude, and is always on the look out for good news, but this doesn’t mean that I will ever look the other way when there is bad news, or try to … Continue reading

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New York Wine Diary: Day 2 – A Look in the Rear-View Mirror at 1990 (Mouton, Chapoutier and Riesling)

Drinking wine is always to some extent about looking back through the rear-view mirror at the past, because the wine in your glass didn’t just miraculously form there, rather, in the more or less distant past somebody made it then … Continue reading

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Berlin Wine Diary: Day 7 – How I Stole the Ideas for ROCK STARS OF WINE AMERICA from Rock Star American Winemakers

Good writers steal all their best ideas, but then they give them a twist the person they took them from would never have thought of. In this kind of way I got the idea for ROCK STARS OF WINE AMERICA … Continue reading

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Unter Schweizerfahne: Das Weingut Hans Lang von Frank Ebbinghaus

                  Von Winzer Ernst Loosen (Dr. Loosen/Bernkastel) stammt folgende Anekdote: Anfang der 90er Jahre klingelte sein Telefon: Ein Unbekannter orderte in breitem Schwyzerdütsch einige Kisten Riesling Auslese. Loosen habe sofort aufgelegt. Denn: … Continue reading

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Berlin Wine Diary: Day 1 – The Backstory to ROCK STARS OF WINE AMERICA #1

Every story has a backstory, however, I must point out that this is a widely misunderstood expression. A backstory isn’t simply the biography of a character or group of characters before the beginning of the story in which she/he or … Continue reading

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NYWC Diary: Day 12 – The Cover Story of ROCK STARS OF WINE AMERICA #1

The image on the cover of my first e-book, ROCK STARS OF WINE AMERICA #1 pictured above, has already got a lot of comment and I felt that I must tell the story of how it came about. By chance … Continue reading

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Einfach Verdammt Gut: der Jahrgang 2014 beim Weingut Dr. Loosen von Frank Ebbinghaus

Man könnte diesen Beitrag mit einer originelleren Feststellung beginnen als: Dr. Loosen hat im schwierigen Jahrgang 2014 einen echten Volltreffer gelandet! Man könnte sicherlich über ein originelleres, trendigeres Weingut schreiben. Und man könnte origineller über dieses Weingut schreiben, zum Beispiel … Continue reading

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