Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL
Riesling Road Trip: Day 2 – Leaving Las Vegas
Chris Miller, the somm of Spago Beverley Hills, sitting next to me in one of the Riesling Road Trip vehicles at an undisclosed location in the American West just made an important observation about the Riesling Road Trip’s last stop: … Continue reading
Riesling Road Trip: Day 1 – The Longest Day in LA
Is it a truck, is it a whale? No, it’s the Riesling Road Trip mobile tasting room. I begin with a picture of the largest of the vehicles with which I’m traveling Coast to Coast, LA to New York Wine … Continue reading
On the Riesling Trail: Day 15 – Only One Day before the Great “Adventure” of the Riesling Road Trip begins!
I’m full of sympathy if you’re wondering how these palms and this beach could possibly have a Riesling Message for the citizens of Planet Wine, but here they are directly outside my hotel window in Venice Beach/LA. Their significance is … Continue reading
On the Riesling Trail: Day 12 – A Close Encounter of the Third Kind with Great Californian Riesling
In the intense sunlight out of a blue sky the yellow of the grass and the deep blue of the pines had a clarity you won’t find anywhere in Europe no matter which time of year it is or which … Continue reading
On the Riesling Trail: Day 5 – Beyond Benny Hill and Monty Python in Oregon, Britain and Kenya
When I’m on the Riesling trail one thing always leads to the next and before I know it I’m God knows where. The picture taken late last night shows how before my very eyes Kirk Wille of Loosen Bros USA … Continue reading
On the Riesling Trail: Day 2 – Rocking Washington Riesling
It’s easy to make sense of the wines of Washington State in the glass. Mostly they taste pretty good and sometimes they taste amazing – this is possibly the most consistent and best value for money state in the Union … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 11 – Gonzo (High Definition Video) Wine Journalism
My notebook and pen used to be the most important tools of my unusual trade, closely followed by the device upon which I typed my stories. However, recently an important change took place and I began to regard the video … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 9 – Wine of the Month June
2012 Briedeler Riesling trocken & feinherb from Weingut Walter for Euro 7 It may not yet be June as I write these lines in New York Wine City (NYWC), but I’m doing so with my computer balanced precariously on the … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 7 – The Wine David vs the Wine Goliath: Democratic Riesling and Holy Burgundy
„Yes, but that doesn’t stop people buying them. That’s another of the things about the wine world which is completely illogical, but doesn’t change for that reason!” said Reinhard Löwenstein of Weingut Heymann-Löwenstein in Winningen/Terrassenmosel (pictured above in his new … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 4 – How Hunter S. Thompson was NOT only a Sports Writer, I’m NOT only the Riesling Guy, and what that means for you now
I feared that the thoughts I posted after discovering that I’d been made a finalist for Best Single Subject Blog at the Wine Blog Awards might strike many readers as self-indulgent and incoherent ramblings, but the responses have all been … Continue reading