Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL
On the Riesling Road: Day 4 – Finally I catch up after the complete failure of the WiFi in my Colmar/Alsace hotel
What the fuck!? On my first day in Alsace was I was riding high and rolling with the punches. My first tasting at Zind-Humbrecht close to Turckheim blew my tiny little mind, but then the WiFi in my Colmar hotel failed … Continue reading
On the Riesling Road: Day 1 (Part II) Zind-Humbrecht changes my Riesling World again!
I was sure that I was holding the bottle firmly, but suddenly it hit the stone floor and smashed between my feet in the reception room of Domaine Zind-Humbrecht just outside Turckheim/Alsace. Olivier Humbrecht disappeared for a moment, then reappeared … Continue reading
On the Riesling Road: Day 1 (Part I)
On the Riesling Road you find beauty and mystery, or maybe they find you? But it depends on being open for them, on opening the doors of perception as far as you can. Yesterday evening I was in Munich for … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 22 – CELEBRATING THE FIRST EXCITING YEAR OF STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL
It’s hard to believe, but true. One year ago today my website turned inside out and became STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL. At the time it didn’t seem like such a big deal, struck me as a gentle reorientation, but if … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 20 – The undying Myth of the complicated and unreadable German Wine Labels
Alongside the great Riesling Myths that the wines of my favorite grape are always sweet and Germanic is the additional Riesling Myth that their labels are inevitable complicated and unreadable. Many wine consumers and even some wine journalists have spotted … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 17 – Crazy Riesling (and Other) Stats – The Astonishing Truth about Californian Wine
I have to thank the man pictured above, Frank Schoonmaker, for an important piece of forgotten wine truth which I bumped into the other day. I’m something of a living fossil, but even I’m not old enough to have … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 13 – The Long Night of German Wines Berlin (April 20th, 2013)
I can’t show you how the Long Night of German Wines (Lange Nacht des deutschen Weins / LNDW) Berlin will look like this year – the 16th year! – because I and everybody else who attends will only find that … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 11 – Wine of the Month April
2012 Riesling trocken from K.H. Schneider for just Euro 6,40 ! Andi Schneider of the K.H. Schneider estate in Bad Sobernheim/Nahe pictured above at the ProWein trade fair in Düsseldorf a few weeks back was one of my big discoveries … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 7 – Gonzo Wine Journalism Lives!
The world is finally waking up again after Easter / Passover / the holidays and just in time the German edition of VINUM magazine (04/2013, but not in the Swiss edition!) has just published a red hot piece of my … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 6 – Enter ‘The Dark Side’
WARNING! If you proceed any further you will be entering ‘The Dark Side’ and www.stuartpigott.de / Stuart Pigott Riesling Global accepts no responsibility for the consequences. Don’t forget that alcohol is a drug and Riesling contains alcohol. You have now … Continue reading