Author Archives: Stuart

Eppstein Wine Diary: Day 13 – Hurricane in a Wine Glass (of 2016 Riesling “1896” from Weingut Carl Loewen)

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Stuart

A hefty controversy on Facebook that blew up yesterday makes it essential for me to make a clear statement about the way I am scoring German and other wines at JamesSuckling.com, for which I am a contributing editor. My major … Continue reading →

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Berlin Wine Diary: Day 2 – Thumbs Up for Boris & Brexitspeak at the Edge of the Cliff

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Stuart

GREAT Britain, you’re invited! The photo above shows the seven meter high bronze sculpture Really Good by David Shrigley that currently occupies the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in Central London. Of course it shows a massive, phallic thumbs up, … Continue reading →

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Eppstein Wine Diary: Day 2 – My Reports on the 2015 & 2016 Vintages in the Rhine & Mosel for JamesSuckling.com

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Stuart

The work of wine critic Stuart Pigott can be read in English at JamesSuckling.com   Since my major report on the wines of Rheinhessen with notes and ratings for almost 500 wines was posted on JamesSuckling.com on Sunday, September 10th … Continue reading →

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Berlin Wine Diary: Day 2 – Welcome to Weltstadt Eppstein – Part 2

Posted on September 10, 2017 by Stuart

The astonishing wine truth about beautiful Eppstein! Although the ancient centre of Eppstein is very beautiful, to my mind matching the historical centers of Paris, Rome and London, my new second home has even more to offer than that. The last … Continue reading →

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Eppstein Wine Diary: Day 4 – Welcome to Weltstadt Eppstein – Part 1

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Stuart

Die Burgstrasse, the main drag of the pulsating metropolis of Eppstein Many readers of this blog and many of my acquaintances still don’t realize that at the end of October 2016 I was suddenly thrown out of my apartment share … Continue reading →

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Eppstein Wine Diary: Day 8 – Alsace is a Pinot Paradise!

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Stuart

Working for JamesSuckling.com is really exciting and I’ve been learning so much so quickly, but the speed things move at takes some getting used to. This is a website with an almost continuous stream of new content, not a monthly … Continue reading →

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Eppstein Wine Diary: Day 5 – Germany’s Miraculous Mosel Duo 2015 & 2016 on JamesSuckling.com

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Stuart

I make no apologies for using this photograph again, because here I am tasting one of the three 100 point wines, the 2015 Scharzhofberger Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese from Egon Müller-Scharzhof in Wiltingen on the Saar, in my extensive report on the … Continue reading →

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Berlin Wine Diary: Day 3 – An Evening in Memory of Annegret Reh-Gartner in Weinstein Berlin

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Stuart

Thank you for the Riesling and for everything else, Annegret! The work of remembering is never over and done with. So, from 6pm on the evening of Thursday, June 15th I will once again be working as a wine waiter … Continue reading →

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Eppstein Wine Diary: Day 6 – Riesling Reload

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Stuart

Because the Spirit of Riesling is ever renewing itself Please excuse me. I would have written earlier, but the last weeks my feet barely seemed to touch the ground. My first long and intense tasting trip to the Mosel (and … Continue reading →

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Berlin Wine Diary: Day 5 – The Big Virginia Story, including Trump Winery (owned by the family of President Trump)

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Stuart

My big story about the wines of Virginia on the East Seaboard of the USA was just published on JamesSuckling.com and ought to cause a stir for a variety of reasons. It is not only the first in-depth report on … Continue reading →

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