Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL

Of course, you’re wondering what three young German winegrowers holding glasses of red wine are doing adorning episode two of my New York Riesling Diary. Well tonight at 6pm at Trestle on Tenth (Tenth Avenue and 24th Street) the American … Continue reading →

Finally I made it to New York for two months of intensive Riesling meditation and group therapy. I’m writing this seated at the window of my room in the Jürgen Fränznick’s apartment in the East Village watching the rain trying … Continue reading →

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhOm5OsOt0k&feature=youtu.be Click on the above link to see the film about Riesling I shot this summer and fall in New York, Berlin and the Rheingau. I may be no Stanley Kubrick, no Quentin Tarantino or Frederico Fellini, but with the … Continue reading →

Take the STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL Acid Test now to find out the acid truth about wine, the whole world of taste, and to discover your own personal acid limit! Some people clearly long for an acid-free world even more … Continue reading →

Hey guys, I don’t want to make life uncomfortable for you, but there are some hard facts I think you need to face up to, because at the moment some of you are being cheated by the wine industry. Those … Continue reading →

I guess that for most of you the city of Dresden in the ex-communist East of Germany is not one of the places you’d expect a delicious dry Riesling to grow. I guess that for most of you Dresden is … Continue reading →

Many people are still suffering from a deep-seated misconception about Riesling’s personality, though it’s several years since Randall Grahm, then owner of the Riesling-focused Pacific Rim winery in Washington State, said the following oft-quoted words: “I am Riesling, a lioness, … Continue reading →

Nothing excites me like new wines do and I have to tell you about one of the most exciting new Rieslings I’ve tasted in a long time. In Riesling Think Piece Nr.4: Crazy Riesling Stats (Part 2) I described how … Continue reading →

Happy 50th Riesling Birthday New York! Riesling is a surprisingly new immigrant to the Eastern United States, not least because the successful cultivation of the wine grape Vitis vinifera there was a dismal failure for several centuries following the establishment … Continue reading →

The Wild Riesling West! The statistics make it indisputable, even if the media seem blind to the fact that Riesling is rising on the West Coast of America. This trend has a lot to do with the critical and commercial … Continue reading →