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Berlin Wine Diary: Day 8 – My Best Rieslings of 2016

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Stuart

As each year this is the season when I pick my Riesling wines of the year in each of the four categories of the IRF Riesling Taste Profile: dry, medium-dry, medium-sweet and sweet. This year the best sweet Riesling is … Continue reading →

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Bordeaux Wine Diary: Day 4 – The Blank Sheet

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Stuart

I’m sitting in an office that looks like countless other offices in rural France – cream colored walls, filling cabinets and desks, a framed map of the company property on the wall – but I’m not just anywhere in rural … Continue reading →

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Berlin Wine Diary: Day 1 – WATCH YOUR BACK the Riesling Movie (Part One)

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Stuart

Although work on my movie was completed several months ago my thoughts have returned to it, because my producer and I recently submitted it for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. We feel this would be an ideal venue for it … Continue reading →

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New York Wine Diary: T minus 5 Days – My BDX Re-Search

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Stuart

My New York days are numbered and I am busy packing up all my stuff, part of which is going back to Berlin where I will spend the winter and part of which is going into storage here in NYC … Continue reading →

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Eppstein Wine Diary: Day 7 – Caroline & Sylvain Reinvent Schlossgut Diel in Burg Layen/Nahe

Posted on October 14, 2016 by Stuart

I sometimes tell people that, “I’m a living fossil with the emphasis on living.” What this means is that I’ve been doing this job in more or less this way for around 30 years. This year in May was the … Continue reading →

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FLX Wine Diary: Day 1 – Knapp’s Reinvention and the 2016 FLX Wine Harvest

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Stuart

I just arrived in the FLX (Finger Lakes in Upstate New York) where the wine harvest has been briefly interrupted by some rain showers that are actually a welcome change from the long dry summer. It would take several inches … Continue reading →

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New York Wine Diary: Day 3 – Martin Tesch, Master of Light

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Stuart

Light is not exactly the coolest word in the wine scene and it hasn’t been so for a long time. Many years ago it was rudely pushed aside by “concentrated”, “powerful”, “gobs of fruit”, “mineraly”, “authentic” and, finally the most … Continue reading →

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Berlin Wine Diary: Day 10 – James Suckling and I

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Stuart

Pictured above in a brief break during a hard day of wine tasting recently at his HQ in Southern Tuscany is James Suckling, the CEO, guiding spirit and main author of www.JamesSuckling.com, one of the most important internet publications about … Continue reading →

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Berlin Wine Diary: Day 3 – How The Hipster Somms Could Get Away With Murder And How We Can Stop Them

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Stuart

Never are the hipster as cool or perfect as when sipping the right “natural” wine! Yes, Part 4 of my series of outrageous stories about the hipster somms of NYWC (New York Wine City) was just published on the Grape … Continue reading →

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Berlin Wine Diary: Day 1 – Simone Schiller & Stefanie Brösel – Wine & Spirits Could Also Just Taste Really Good!

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Stuart

Sometimes during the last months it felt like all the young somms of the world were lined up in closed ranks facing me like an army. It seemed that I had catastrophically lost touch with them, because I wasn’t head … Continue reading →

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