Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL
New York Riesling Diary: Day 62 – Thank You Wynton Marsalis! (Thank you Jürgen Fränznick!)
When I see New York Wine City (NYWC) looking like this the music I hear in my head is Wynton Marsalis’ trumpet, for even though he was raised in New Orleans no other contemporary jazz musician strikes me as having … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 60 – Finally, Hope for the Mosel and the End for the Mosel Bridge?
Sarah and Knut are hopeful for the first time in almost three years, and that makes me hopeful too. In fact, this is my second reason for feeling hopeful this Christmas (for the first scroll down to the previous post). … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 58 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ (Part 6 – Out of the Vast Shadow, again!)
There are no shadows without light! Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), the publication today by The Washington Post of an in-depth interview with Edward … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 55 – Remembering Pan Am Flight 103
25 years ago today Pan Am Flight 103 from London Heathrow to New York JFK broke up in mid-air after a bomb ripped a hole in it and crashed on the village of Lockerbie in Scotland. This anniversary has a … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 52 – Ontario’s Delicious (Riesling & Pinot Noir) Contradictions
It wasn’t part of any plan, but one thing lead to another and yesterday afternoon at Hotel Delmano in Williamsburg/Brooklyn I hosted a tasting of Rieslings and Pinot Noirs from the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario/Canada for a group of New … Continue reading
New York Diary: Day 50 – The Truth about American Wine, starring Clark Smith (author of ‘Postmodern Winemaking’)
For a moment yesterday afternoon I was lost in the designer basement of the ACE Hotel on West 29th Street. Which of the many black doors was it behind? I decided to start “at the beginning” with the door with … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 47 – My New Bio
My book manuscript has been edited and is now with the designer, so I can finally catch up with a slew of other things that spent months circling unable to land. High on this list is a new bio for … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 44 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ (Part 5 – Where are We Heading, Farther in the Direction of Global Cyber-Fascism or Back Towards Liberty?)
Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), Today is the most important day for Liberty, Freedom and Democracy since the wave of revelations about your activities … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 42 – Over the Mountains and Far Away in Georgia (in Williamsburg/Brooklyn!)
Seldom have I experienced a tasting like that of Georgian wines which Lisa Granik MW presented this afternoon at Hotel Delmano in Williamsburg/Brooklyn. Even in New York Wine City (NYWC) where the culture of excellence and plain old hot competition … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 40 – “Florian, what the Hell are You doing Here in NYWC?”
Suddenly, yesterday afternoon I got a text message from a French number telling me that Florain Busch of the Clemens Busch estate in Pünderich/Mosel was in town and would like to meet up for lunch today. Luckily I didn’t have … Continue reading