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New York Wine Diary: T minus 5 Days – My BDX Re-Search
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
Eppstein Wine Diary: Day 7 – Caroline & Sylvain Reinvent Schlossgut Diel in Burg Layen/Nahe
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
FLX Wine Diary: Day 1 – Knapp’s Reinvention and the 2016 FLX Wine Harvest
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
New York Wine Diary: Day 3 – Martin Tesch, Master of Light
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
Berlin Wine Diary: Day 10 – James Suckling and I
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
Berlin Wine Diary: Day 3 – How The Hipster Somms Could Get Away With Murder And How We Can Stop Them
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
Berlin Wine Diary: Day 1 – Simone Schiller & Stefanie Brösel – Wine & Spirits Could Also Just Taste Really Good!
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
New York Wine Diary: Day 11 – ROCK STARS OF WINE AMERICA Celebrates It’s First Anniversary
The humble beginnings of ROCK STARS OF WINE AMERICA in Brooklyn! Exactly one year ago today I began work on my e-book series (for Kindle) ROCK STARS OF WINE AMERICA. The photo above shows what that looked like. At that … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 6 – Maybe I’m Amazed by Günter Seeger’s New York Restaurant!
I’m frequently asked what the best wine in the world is, what my favorite wine of all time is, which the best of this or that category of wine, food, restaurant or bar is. The first couple of these questions … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 5 – The Sea Change in the FLX and the Vineyards Behind It
Harlan Fulkerson, “the man, the myth, the legend!” Why write yet another blog posting about developments in the FLX (Finger Lakes in Upstate New York) wine industry, and why begin with this photograph? Both are the result of reactions to … Continue reading