This elaborate apparatus has nothing to do with wine and everything to do with coffee. I found it in a high-brow coffee place in Williamsburg/New York today where they’re busy trying to turn coffee into the New Wine. As far as I’m concerned they’re welcome to do that, and anything else which comes into their heads as long as it doesn’t harm anyone, but why does everything have to be made much more complicated in order to look important? Here at STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL my entire effort is devoted to showing that wine, and specifically Riesling, is less complex than generally feared.
On the other hand the last thing I want to do is dumb wine, or Riesling, down. Instead my goal is to tell it how it is without either pretension, obfuscation or over-simplification. There’s a whole world of Rieslings out there and its wonderful that they taste as different as people look, sound, think and believe in this city. Ethnic and personal diversity finds its parallel in the enormous range of aroma and flavor of Riesling. This diversity is liberating and empowering, generating respect and compassion. Sure, we have differences of opinion and belief, but what we have in common is so much more important than that. Riesling reminds me of all that every time I drink it. It also encourages me to throw overboard prejudices and reject tired conventions which obscure the truth in wine.
