Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL
Berlin Wine Diary: Day 4 – In Wine There is Freedom
What the hell has wine got to do with the current trend to nationalism and authoritarianism of myriad kinds that’s sweeping the West and some parts of the East too? This isn’t a rhetorical question I’m posing to introduce some … Continue reading
Bordeaux Wine Diary: Day 1 – The Fast Approaching Danger and My Big Decision Part 1
Although it feels strange to be posting this from Bordeaux this is perhaps not so inappropriate, since Marine Le Pen of the Front National is a candidate in the French Presidential election later this year. I should point out that … Continue reading
Eppstein Wine Diary: Day 12 – Who is My Riesling Heroine of 2016? Read on and Find Out!
Who is my Riesling Heroine of 2016? Who is hiding behind those hands? Read on and find out! The title of Riesling Heroine / Hero that I award each year, no less than my choices of the best dry, medium-dry, … Continue reading
Berlin Wine Diary: Day 8 – My Best Rieslings of 2016
As each year this is the season when I pick my Riesling wines of the year in each of the four categories of the IRF Riesling Taste Profile: dry, medium-dry, medium-sweet and sweet. This year the best sweet Riesling is … Continue reading
Eppstein Wine Diary: Day 7 – Caroline & Sylvain Reinvent Schlossgut Diel in Burg Layen/Nahe
I sometimes tell people that, “I’m a living fossil with the emphasis on living.” What this means is that I’ve been doing this job in more or less this way for around 30 years. This year in May was the … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 3 – Martin Tesch, Master of Light
Light is not exactly the coolest word in the wine scene and it hasn’t been so for a long time. Many years ago it was rudely pushed aside by “concentrated”, “powerful”, “gobs of fruit”, “mineraly”, “authentic” and, finally the most … Continue reading
Berlin Wine Diary: Day 10 – James Suckling and I
Pictured above in a brief break during a hard day of wine tasting recently at his HQ in Southern Tuscany is James Suckling, the CEO, guiding spirit and main author of www.JamesSuckling.com, one of the most important internet publications about … Continue reading
Berlin Wine Diary: Day 1 – Simone Schiller & Stefanie Brösel – Wine & Spirits Could Also Just Taste Really Good!
Sometimes during the last months it felt like all the young somms of the world were lined up in closed ranks facing me like an army. It seemed that I had catastrophically lost touch with them, because I wasn’t head … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 4 – Welcome to Urban Wine Life at “Château Lüttmer” in Berlin!
“The urb it orbs,” wrote James Joyce, and that’s oh so very true of wine, at least since the Spanish conquest of the Canary Islands in 1402 and the Portuguese discovery of Madeira in 1419. Wine growing is a thoroughly … Continue reading
New York Wine Diary: Day 1 – Castello di Morcote is One of the World’s “Grand Crus” for Merlot
This is Gaby Gianini the owner of Castello di Morcote, and although those names will be unknown to most readers I am convinced that this place is one of the world’s great Cru for red wines from the Merlot grape. … Continue reading