Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL
On the Riesling Road Diary: Day 1 – Give us This Day Our Daily Bread, or the Story of Peter Klann – Part 3
It says a great deal about Peter Klann – until his death just over a year ago the guiding spirit of the Soluna Bakery in Berlin – that he should have chosen a white rabbit as the symbol for his … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 8 – Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread, or the Story of Peter Klann – Part 2
Normally I’m really good on dates but not for this story, because I didn’t consider it anything even vaguely resembling a story until long after it all happened and consequently didn’t take notes. This picture shows half a loaf of … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 5 – Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread, or the Story of Peter Klann – Part I
It was almost exactly a decade ago to the day that I began to think about bread actively for the first time and became aware of its relationship to wine (which only begins with the fact that both are the … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 2 – Submerged, but Coming to the Surface
When stuff happens it often happens by the bucket-load. I’ve been back in Berlin 48, but I still feel lost in something like the dead-end pictured above. Don’t worry it really isn’t anything like as bad as this image makes … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 43 – Night Flight to Germany
John Lennon famous said that life was what happened while you were making plans. In my case it was sickness – a viscous bout of flu that left me weak and delirious – that happened and screwed almost all the … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 41 – The Wine Times they are a Changin’ in California, Austria and New York’s Finger Lakes
My apologies for the delay in getting this posting online, but I am sick with some kind of flu-type bug and struggling with everything as a result. Here it finally is! As noted just a few days ago, a sea … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 39 – New York State Wines in New York Wine City (NYWC) plus a Pink Elephant !
Today I was at the NY DRINKS NY Grand Tasting of New York State wines here in New York Wine City (NYWC) and although I’ve been exploring the state’s wines quite intensively for almost a decade there were still some … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 38 – The Strange Drinks Laboratory that is Brooklyn
Brooklyn was the subject of enormous foodie (and other) media hype in recent years, and you could be forgiven for thinking that this is the Holy Land of world gastronomy (and many other things). The images linked to this aura … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 35 – Climate, Weather and Wine Paradoxes (New York, Michigan, California)
Yes, today maybe the last day of winter in New York Wine City (NYWC) and things like this which sat in front of the door to tha apartment building on West 16th Street that I live in when I’m in … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 34 – How different the World of Wine (including that strange place called California) can be
One of the things which came out of the big wine tastings of the last days in New York Wine City is just how hard California is trying to convince the wine world that its wines aren’t all massive gooey … Continue reading