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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 20 – Billy Wagner’s Restaurant Nobelhart & Schmutzig is Some-thing/where Else (Part 2)
The photograph above is a Portrait of the Gastronomic Artist as a Young Man, which is to say the previous incarnation of Billy Wagner just before he started seriously planing what became his new restaurant Nobelhart & Schmutzig (N&S) on … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 19 – Billy Wagner’s Restaurant Nobelhart & Schmutzig is Some-thing/where Else (Part 1)
I don’t normally do restaurant reviews, but occasionally my visits to restaurants were so exciting that I ended up writing some kind of “review”. This is such a case thanks to restaurateur Billy Wagner (left), dishwasher Samuel Teye-Osom (centre), chef Micha Schäfer … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 17 – The Vanishing Wine Journalist: Good, Bad or Flaky?
As you can see from the title of this posting it’s Day 17 for me in Berlin this time around, but sometimes it felt like Day minus 17. Several times I’ve walked into wine stores, wine bars or wine tastings … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 15 – Unsmiling Faces of Berlin
Achim von Oetinger is not a Berliner, at least not normally. After looking very carefully at this photograph of the winegrower from Erbach, Rheingau I took the other evening at Berlin wine merchant Planet Wine I’m not sure how to … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 10 – Champagne, Gossip & Decadence (according to Frank Krüger)
I know that this blog is sometimes very serious, even dead serious, but this is not one of those days. Today, it is literally dead funny. You see, I’m still on this God-awful VIP-trip and many of today’s VIPs, are … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 8 – Almost Famous on a Good Night
Yes, for those of you who are familiar with German TV, that is Thomas Gottschalk sitting next to me. I should have posted this photo of our meeting in the great Berlin wine bar ‘Weinstein’ right after it happened, but … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 4 – Rockstar Wine Guys, Real Rockstars ‘n’ Riesling
I still don’t know what I was waiting for / And my time was running wild… I had to do a lot of work to this image to make it look like what it actually is, an old photo of Rod … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 0 – All Edges and Indecipherable
I just got off the plane from New York and I’m feeling a bit disorientated, which is my excuse for presenting this enigmatic image as proof that my Riesling Diary continues its twisting and turning path, now from Berlin for … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 28 – The Eternal City of Destruction and Construction
Pictured above is the junction of 2nd Avenue and East 7th Street in Manhattan where on Thursday afternoon a gas huge explosion lead to a fire that consumed three entire buildings, the ruins of which can be seen in the … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 25 – A Counterintuitive Question and the Surprisingly Delicious Answer
I know that it might seem counterintuitive for me to ask this question, because this blog is largely focused on Riesling, but why are German dry whites from the Weissburgunder (aka Pinot Blanc / Pinot Bianco) and Grauburgunder grapes (aka … Continue reading