Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL
New York Riesling Diary: Day 3 – My Book is Here, is Real!
This morning I was sitting in the office of Paul Colarusso, the marketing manager of Abrams Books just a couple of blocks from here in Downtown Manhattan, when he pulled up an email onto his computer screen and said to … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 1 – How Riesling is becoming a Role Model for German Wines from Other Grape Varieties
Yes, sometimes it’s frustrating for me when bad internet reception delays a new posting going online, as it did yesterday at Düsseldorf Airport just before I jumped on my flight to New York Wine City (NYWC). However, the fact is … Continue reading
Rhine Riesling Diary: Day 4 – Can the Germans eat Cold Fried Chicken with their Hands?
“Can the Germans eat cold fried chicken with their hands?” was the question that Rienne Martinez of the Carl Ehrhard Winebar in Rüdesheim/Rheingau asked herself as she marinated the chicken for the third course of the Dirty Dozen wine dinner … Continue reading
Rhine Riesling Diary: Day 2 STOP PRESS – Tesch leaves VDP! (with an amazing comment by Justin Christoph)
Perhaps you already heard the news and your jaw already dropped as mine did when I read it in the Rhine Main Presse newspaper of April 22nd. The Tesch estate of Langenlonsheim/Name has left the elite VDP wines estates’ association … Continue reading
London Riesling Diary: Day 3 – In the Long Shadow
Here in London I feel that I’m in the long shadow of the British Empire. You can’t see this metaphysical shadow, but it’s no less real for that. Most of you couldn’t experience it as I do, because in order … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 9 – Dirk Würtz’s Rieslings demand RESSpekt (and taste unique)
Nobody could think up Dirk Würtz, winemaker of the Balthasar Ress estate in Hattenheim / Rheingau since 2009, if he didn’t already exist. Meeting him is like suddenly finding yourself in his movie and realizing that there’s no choice but … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 8 – Give us This Day Our Daily Bread, or the Story of Peter Klann – Part 4
Suddenly I was stopped dead in my storytelling tracks by an email that expressed outrage at something I wrote in one of the first three episodes of this story. This story is “only” about bread, just like most of the … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 6 – Let it Grow in Töplitz!
Those of you who’ve followed this blog for some time already know that on May 4th, 2013 a group of friends and I planted just shy of a thousand vines of the variety Pinotin (thank you vine breeder Valentin Blattner) … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 3 – Bukowski meets Müller-Thurgau @ The Cooks Connection / Berlin
“Hi! Remember me? I’m back!” is how the beat poet Charles Bukowski said he would greet the cockroaches in hell. It was also the perfect motto for yesterday evening’s mind-expanding multi-media wine tasting event at The Cooks Connection / Berlin, ‘Bukowski … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 1 – Wines of the Month April 2014
2012 Hölle Riesling trocken from Thörle for Euro 19,60 2012 Frauenberg Riesling trocken from Göhring for Euro 11,15 Of course, most of the German wine scene is currently totally fixated upon the 2013 vintage – new Rieslings and much else … Continue reading