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FLXtra: Part 2 – A Simultaneous Riesling Vertical and Winemaker Horizontal
Why is there so little interest in mature wines like those pictured above? Most wine drinkers never have the chance to taste a particular wine from many vintages stretching back over 10 to 15 years, and those who lucky enough … Continue reading
FLXtra: Part 1 – Breaking the Boundaries at Boundary Breaks Vineyard
The Finger Lakes, increasingly well known under the acronym FLX, is a dynamic wine region that keeps drawing me back to it, but many people in New York Wine City, or NYWC as I call it, continue to look down … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 28 – I Blog Therefore I am?
I was never asked by anybody why I write this blog, perhaps because by the time it really got rolling blogging had become so well established that it was widely assumed to be as natural as breathing or having sex. … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 25 – Hugel’s New Star Rieslings
It might sound absurd to talk about innovation at a company founded in 1639, but that’s what Jean- Frédéric Hugel (left) and his father Etienne (right) were doing today in New York, and they brought the wines along to prove … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 22 – Eric Texier is a Real Rhône Ranger (from France)!
This photograph of winemaker Eric Texier reminds me somewhat of that I took a week earlier of Abe Schoener of the Scholium Project in California, and there are number of important similarities although Eric is working on the other side … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 16 – East-West Winemaker Abe Schoener Defies All the Categories!
A lot of people in New York Wine City (NYWC) and in the wine scenes of other cities and around Planet Wine regard Abe Schoener of the Scholium Project as one of the leading producer of “natural wine” in California … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 12 – Schloss Joahnnisberg and Elite of Germany in New York Wine City for Rieslingfeier
Saturday, February 20th is Rieslingfeier in New York Wine City (scroll down for the link to obtain one of the last tickets to The Gränd Tasting) and already a slew of the winemaking elite of Germany has arrived in the … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 7 – Turbulence Internal and External, or how Four Words unleashed a Facebook Storm
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about turbulence, not least because of the storm this week on Facebook. This question was already on my mind, because I’ve been reading Michael A. Singer’s extraordinary book about spiritual development, The Untethered Soul … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 2 – BC’s The Acorn in NYC
A lot of people think that my life is just one amazing dinner and wine tasting after another, and that nothing I experience is ever less than completely awesome. I don’t want to let you down with a bump, but … Continue reading
London Wine Diary: Day 2 – Visit Atlantis Now! The Virtually Unknown White Side of Randall Grahm
I was seriously distracted for about a week after arriving in Europe, and this caused a delay in writing and posting this second story about Randall Grahm. That was unhelpful, because the first story (scroll down to read about his … Continue reading