Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL
New York Riesling Diary: Day 12 – Bald folgen / Coming Soon: RIESLING REVELATIONS 2014
WEINHIER schläft nicht! Bald folgen an dieser Stelle meine RIESLING REVELATIONS (bzw. Offenbarungen) 2014. Die fünf Kategorien – trocken / feinherb / zartsüß / süß und Bladerunner lehnen sich an den Hitlisten in meinem neuen Buch PLANET RIESLING (Tre Torri … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 5 PLANET RIESLING IST ENDLICH DA! Finally the German Language Edition of Best White Wine on Earth is there!
Lange fühlte ich mich wie ein Prophet in die Wüste, aber inzwischen ist Riesling ein globale Kult. PLANET RIESLING (Tre Torri Verlag) berichtet ausführlich darüber. Das Foto entstand im Keller von Weingut Heumann-Löwenstein in Winningen/Mosel. Reinhard Löwenstein ist Erfinder des neu-alten Mosel-Weins. For … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 2 – NEWSFLASH! Chile has 2nd Top Dry Riesling Producer
Yesterday I attended the New York Wine City (NYWC) tasting of MOVI, an association of smaller Chilean wine producers stretching from the northern limit of wine growing to the far South with the expectation that there would be some exciting … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 1 – The Outrageous Canadians and How Riesling Leaves the Gates Open
I wasn’t going to write about the event last Saturday evening at Grano Restaurant in Toronto, because it was to promote my book BEST WHITE WINE ON EARTH (shortly to be published in German under the title PLANET RIESLING by … Continue reading
Niagara Riesling Diary: Day 2 – No Word Other Than “Revolution” Will do
When it comes to wine it’s easy to throw around big important words like “revolution” without adequate reason, because it sounds so good and therefore nobody questions the relevance of such a term to the situation in question. For many … Continue reading
Niagara Riesling Diary: Day 1 – Welcome to the Riesling Central of the Northeast!
OK, this isn’t exactly the way I normally see vineyards in my mind’s eye when I think of Riesling, but this is the way that the vineyards of the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario/Canada looked when I arrived here yesterday afternoon. … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 5 – PLANET RIESLING kommt bald ! / the German Language Edition of my Riesling Book is coming soon !
Finally, the German language edition of BEST WHITE WINE ON EARTH called PLANET RIESLING will be published very soon by Tre Torri Verlag in Wiesbaden. Unten in Deutsch / below in German is the story of how my book has unexpectedly become part … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 3 – Looking Back in Space-Time at Maynard James Keenan
TIME PAST AND WINES PAST! There’s no way round it, now I’m looking back both in time, and across diverse mountains, plains and rivers between my desk on the East Coast and the American Southwest and my actual Gonzo #AZwine … Continue reading
Arizona Riesling Diary: Day 5 – Drawing Big Conclusions about #AZwine on Down South Road Trip
The official program of the A2Z press trip to the wine regions of Arizona ended last night when I got back to the Four Points Hotel next door to Tuscon Airport from dinner at Augustin Restaurant. Full stop, end of … Continue reading
Arizona Riesling Diary: Day 4 – The Surprising HOW of AZ Wines (Believe Me, this Place isn’t all Desert)
The Big Problem with figuring out how Arizona can make exciting wines – scroll down to see how I became aware that it can do that – is the rigid stereotypes in my head, in our heads. The most obvious … Continue reading