Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL

New York Riesling Diary: Day 8 – Wine of the Month February 2014

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Stuart

2012 Kiwi Wine $22 per half bottle from Hermit Woods Winery My humble apologies for the delay in posting the new wine of the month, but as soon as I got back to NYWC the last vital round of corrections … Continue reading →

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Florida Riesling Diary: Day 3 – The Warm Nostalgic Glow of this Sub-Tropical American Paradise

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Stuart

America is famously the place where everything, including the portions in restaurants, is BIG, but in many respects in recent years America has been overtaken in this by China, parts of the Ex-Soviet Union, the Arabian Peninsula and Brazil (just … Continue reading →

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London Riesling Diary: Day 2 – Vaughn Tan and the View thru the Windshield instead of the Rear-View Mirror

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Stuart

Vaughn Tan is one of the most interesting people I ever met. From the moment he opened his mouth the first time we met in a Cambridge/MA café on a snowy afternoon in early 2012 I could tell that we … Continue reading →

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London Riesling Diary: Day 1 – Steel in the Soul

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Stuart

Outrageous! The energy and creativity, greed and arrogance of London are right outside the window as I write this (above) and I don’t think there’s anything I need to say more about them than to observe that I’m currently torn … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 11 – Horst Hummel’s Hungarian Red Wine Revelations from the “ignoble” Portugieser Grape

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Stuart

One of the most fundamental aspects of the way we think about wine is the division of grape varieties into two groups, the “noble” wine grapes and all the other wine grapes which are considered more or less “ignoble”. For … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 8 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ (Part 7 – The Life of the Others)

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Stuart

Are the German people really no more than shadows? Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), as you well know I’m now in Berlin writing this in … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 4 – The Kurpfalz Weinstuben is one of the World’s Best Wine Restaurants and a Very Good Reason to Travel to Berlin (like I just did)

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Stuart

The Kurpfalz Weinstuben is one of the world’s best wine restaurantsand a very good reason to travel to Berlin (like I just did). But it’s so eccentric that many unadventurous people, who really ought to know better, i.e. be more … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 67 – Another Nail in the Coffin of the Absurd and Disastrous Mosel Bridge?

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Stuart

The shit is hitting the fan because the absurd and disastrous Mosel Bridge under construction close to Ürzig and Zeltingen-Rachtig on the Mosel Valley is finally being questioned. A week ago I reported how Der Spiegel, Germany’s equivalent of TIME … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 65 – Wine of the Month, January 2014

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Stuart

El Maestro Sierra Oloroso (15 years old) Euro 11,95 in Berlin from www.vinos.de $ 19,99 per half in NYC from www.flatiron-wines.com Not Riesling? Not even a complex aromatic white? Nor even a rich and subtle red? No. My wine of the … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 64 – A New Year and New Life!

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Stuart

I may be British and a visitor to the USA, but the assertion of the American Declaration of Independence of July 4th 1776 that there are certain  rights and that these include, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” made … Continue reading →

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