Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL
New York Riesling Diary: Day 12 – An Open Letter to the Middle of the Row, by Caitlin Harrison
Caitlin Harrison worked the 2013 crush at Weingut Eva Vollmer in Mainz-Ebersheim/Rheinhessen. This is her second and final report: Upon a full two week’s reflection since I saw you last, and after many carefully thought out explanations of your production … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 11 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ (Part 2 – Paranoia has Many Faces)
Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), no doubt you found it suspicious that a few days ago I INVITED YOU to read all my private … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 9 – Yes, there are still some good red Bordeauxs that won’t bankrupt you or me
Red Bordeaux isn’t a wine that often lights my fire, and since the prices for the famous names went AWOL I stopped buying in protest. The last red Bordeaux I bought more than a single bottle of was the 2000 … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 6 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ (Part 1 – An Invitation)
Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), Listen up, because here comes something exciting, positive and new! Along with a large part of the world’s population … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 14 – Maybe I’m amazed…by Luxembourg
Great Mosel Rieslings grow on slate, have a racy acidity and taste most exciting when some natural grape sweetness was retained. Well, yes…sometimes. I’d known that Riesling is also grown on limestone in the German Obermosel, or Upper Mosel, and … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 11 – “Wein lesen”, Wine Reading and their Interdependence, by Caitlin Harrison
As a fiercely passionate student of wine, I, Caitlin Harrison, in a moment of panic and indifference for my direction in life, decided to quit my longstanding career in restaurant work to throw myself fully into what any normal 28 … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 5 – When I knew I must be somebody, but I didn’t know who the hell I was
Yesterday evening was mad, bad and exciting all at once. When I arrived at the ‘Tasting on Thin Ice’ organized by Lenz Moser ( the man behind TxB Wine Imports in Germany and the globally distributed ‘Laurenz V.’ brand of … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 16 – Wonderful Sweet non-Riesling (thanks to the NYWC Sherryfest)
“What are you doing here Stuart? This isn’t Riesling!” someone called out to me across the room this afternoon at The Astor Center in New York Wine City (NYWC). I was there attending the NYWC Sherryfest Grand Tasting. As if … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 12 – Zen and the Art of not becoming “insanely busy” when writing a Book against a Crazy Deadline
Writing this book (BWWOE – The Riesling Book, for Abrams in NYC) against a crazy deadline ought to be sending me insane, but thankfully it isn’t. One reason for that is that most days I make great progress with it … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 8 – Mac Forbes: Otherwise Australian
Sometimes the Great God of Wine knows it all so much better than I can ever hope to do and gives me a helping hand. The last days I was struggling to finish the Australian chapter of my forthcoming book … Continue reading