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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 17 – The Vanishing Wine Journalist: Good, Bad or Flaky?

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Stuart

As you can see from the title of this posting it’s Day 17 for me in Berlin this time around, but sometimes it felt like Day minus 17. Several times I’ve walked into wine stores, wine bars or wine tastings … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 15 – Unsmiling Faces of Berlin

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Stuart

Achim von Oetinger is not a Berliner, at least not normally. After looking very carefully at this photograph of the winegrower from Erbach, Rheingau I took the other evening at Berlin wine merchant Planet Wine I’m not sure how to … Continue reading →

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Jay Somers: Winemaker / Lead Guitar von Frank Ebbinghaus

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Stuart

“Pinot-Noir-Musik die meinen Herz trifft aber bezahlbar ist!” Stuart Pigott  Nina ist so eigenwillig und kompromisslos wie man es von einem Winzer oder einer Winzerin erwarten kann. Für sie gibt es nur ein Ziel, das sie mit Geduld und äußerster … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 10 – Champagne, Gossip & Decadence (according to Frank Krüger)

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Stuart

I know that this blog is sometimes very serious, even dead serious, but this is not one of those days. Today, it is literally dead funny. You see, I’m still on this God-awful VIP-trip and many of today’s VIPs, are … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 8 – Almost Famous on a Good Night

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Stuart

Yes, for those of you who are familiar with German TV, that is Thomas Gottschalk sitting next to me. I should have posted this photo of our meeting in the great Berlin wine bar ‘Weinstein’ right after it happened, but … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 4 – Rockstar Wine Guys, Real Rockstars ‘n’ Riesling

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Stuart

I still don’t know what I was waiting for / And my time was running wild… I had to do a lot of work to this image to make it look like what it actually is, an old photo of Rod … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 0 – All Edges and Indecipherable

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Stuart

I just got off the plane from New York and I’m feeling a bit disorientated, which is my excuse for presenting this enigmatic image as proof that my Riesling Diary continues its twisting and turning path, now from Berlin for … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 28 – The Eternal City of Destruction and Construction

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Stuart

Pictured above is the junction of 2nd Avenue and East 7th Street in Manhattan where on Thursday afternoon a gas huge explosion lead to a fire that consumed three entire buildings, the ruins of which can be seen in the … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 25 – A Counterintuitive Question and the Surprisingly Delicious Answer

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Stuart

I know that it might seem counterintuitive for me to ask this question, because this blog is largely focused on Riesling, but why are German dry whites from the Weissburgunder (aka Pinot Blanc / Pinot Bianco) and Grauburgunder grapes (aka … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 11 – Flashback to Singapore, or how Iggy’s Restaurant Blew My Mind

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Stuart

Some stories absolutely demand the right photos before they are told, and those photos only arrive much later, then it can be difficult to use them for a blog posting, because blogging is theoretically all about the moment. OK, it’s … Continue reading →

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