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New York Wine Diary: Day 28 – True Elegance in Chardonnay and Pinot Noir is All About Style NOT About Fashion
A colleague of mine in Germany, Stephan Reinhardt, who writes for The Wine Advocate got wind of this column’s forthcoming appearance and wrote on twitter #tickingbomb. Well, here’s the explosion! It’s not without some good reason that I sometimes get … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: 24 – All Apologies: to Cockroaches Insulted by their Portrayal in ROCK STARS OF WINE AMERICA #1 and to the Citizens of NYC
Note: I seem to have a major talent for getting myself into trouble. Trying to appease the cockroaches of the nation led to a storm of protest from New York’s who felt that I was entirely lacking in sympathy for … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 19 – Rajat Paar, the Man Behind “American Burgundy”
I’m sitting in my “country cottage” in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with a glass of the 2013 Sanford & Benedict Pinot Noir from Rajat Parr’s Sandhi Wines in Lompoc, Santa Barabara County California. Although the bottle was opened 8 days ago it’s … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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