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FLXtra: SEVENTH EDITION! – Daring & Innovation at Bellwether / Quiet Perfectionism at Sheldrake Point
Although I visited both the wineries that are the subject of the Seventh Edition of my FLXtra yesterday, and both lie on Cayuga Lake to the north of Ithaca, that is not the reason that they’re together in this blog … Continue reading
FLXtra: SIXTH EDITION! – Riesling Oregon says Hi to Riesling New York (Part 1 UPDATED!)
When I retasted all the wines described below two days after they were opened (something I frequently do with young wines to see how they develop through contact with the air) I found some of them very changed. I’ve therefore UPDATED … Continue reading
FLXtra: FIFTH EDITION – Peter, You Can Ring My Bell
This is Peter Bell, the winemaker of Fox Run winery in the FLX as very few people see him, but I promise you this wasn’t the only photographs of him I took this afternoon in his lab-office which looked this … Continue reading
FLXtra: FOURTH EDITION! – Alsace & Austria Rieslingtest
The idea of tasting Alsace and Austrian Rieslings next to each other blind has a compelling logic – both are full-bodied dry wines from rather warm and dry climates – but for some obscure reason, or no reason at all, … Continue reading
FLXtra: THIRD EDITION! – A Land Shaped by Water
The thunderstorm which broke just after 5am in the FLX region – I’m often awake around then, being a light sleeper – reminded me that this isn’t just a region dominated by water – I’m staying in Geneva at the … Continue reading
FLXtra: SECOND EDITION! I dwell in Almost Impossibility –
This is how the view out of the window of the room in Geneva, FLX (Finger Lakes) I am staying in looked just over three months ago the last time I was here. In that short time this wine region … Continue reading
FLXtra: FIRST EDITION ! – A Greyhound Bus to Geneva, FLX / In Praise of Microclimate Wine Bar
Welcome to an exciting new publication making an extended guest appearance at STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL for about the next four weeks. Let me explain a little what this is all about. As regular readers well know, I’ve written about … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 6 – Almost Famous 2013 Dry Rieslings from Tim Fröhlich & Vincent Bründlmayer
Yesterday, at the the Rudi Wiest Selections tasting of German wines here in NYWC (New York Wine City) I bumped into Tim Fröhlich of the Schäfer-Fröhlich winery in Bockenau in the Nahe. Tasting some of his 2013 and 2014 Rieslings … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 3 Empire Estate Riesling & Thomas Pastuszak is the 2015 Riesling King of New York!
Successful creative co-operation like that between Kelby Russell (left), winemaker of Red Newt and Boundary Breaks in the FLX (Finger Lakes) in Upstate New York, and Thomas Pastuszak (right), wine director of The Nomad Hotel in NYWC (New York Wine … Continue reading
Arizona Wine Diary: Day 8 – Unsung Winemaker Heroes of the South (Part 2)
Although it doesn’t look like it, this photograph of Todd Bostock of Dos Cabezas winery in Sonoita is missing something vitally important: Todd’s wife Kelly Bostock. I’d already left Sonoita for Tuscon with Todd late yesterday afternoon when I suddenly … Continue reading