Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL
New York Riesling Diary: Day 39 – NJWRT2, the World (i.e. NYWC) may not want to believe it, but Northern New Jersey is making some Great Wines including Riesling!)
Yes, the world (i.e. New York Wine City, or NYWC) may not want to believe it, but Northern New Jersey is making some great wines including Riesling! That’s where I was yesterday, on my second New Jersey Wine Road Trip … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 36 – BEST WHITE WINE ON EARTH The Riesling Story is On Course for Planet Earth!
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its the corrected copyedited manuscript of BEST WHITE WINE ON EARTH – The Riesling Story and it is now on course for Planet Earth. I can’t give you an exact ETA yet … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 32 – You’re not There
This enigmatic picture reminds me of the 2007 Todd Haynes movie ‘I’m not There’ staring a handful of actors including Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan. That fits, because the person pictured, Rienne Martinez, has just become the ex-manager of the … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 30 – The Art of Transformation in New York Wine City (NYWC)
It was exactly one year ago that I arrived for my first long visit to NYWC, so why is there a photograph of artist and graphic designer Steven Solomon at the top of this anniversary posting on STUART PIGOTT RIESLING … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 25 – Good News/Bad News, or if Pigs could fly in Bordeaux
First the Good News: Why do I always give Bordeaux another chance, although so many of my favorite wines have gone so far up the price scale that they’re no longer even visible? Is it that the first red wine that … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 24 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ, (Part 4 – does your vocabulary still contain the words “amoral” or “immoral”?)
Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), Back on November 2nd when I INVITED YOU to read and listen in to all my correspondence and promised … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 22 – How Randall Grahm will Doon it Until the Day He Dies
The picture shows Randall Grahm, the guiding spirit of Bonny Doon Vineyard of Santa Cruz, CA, USA, Earth at lunch today in The Breslin on West 29th Street, Manhattan, NY, USA, Earth. However, what it actually records is a moment … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 20 – New Jersey is still on the Wrong Side of the Wine Tracks
As regular readers of this blog are well aware, sometimes I tell the stories as soon as they’ve happened and sometimes I need to chew things over for several days before I’m halfway sure what I really think. The other … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 18 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ, (Part 3 – Legal Implications)
Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), being a British subject, a permanent resident of the Federal Republic of Germany and a frequent visitor to the … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 17 – The Great Dry White Tasting (Riesling vs White Burgundy & Chenin Blanc)
This is Terroir Murray Hill in the throbbing heart of New York Wine City (NYWC), where on Monday afternoon (sorry for the terrible delay due to urgent and well paid work!) Rienne Martinez of Terroir Murray Hill and I staged … Continue reading