Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL
Australian Riesling Diary: Day 2 – Shine on Great Southern
From my last posting you might have got the idea that the Rieslings of Western Australia (WA) are some kind of weird and (possibly) wonderful freak show, heavy on irony and low on old-fashioned consistency, but this is not true … Continue reading
Australian Riesling Diary: Day1 – The Wild West of Riesling Oz (with Irony)
Andrew Hoadley of La Violetta Wines in Denmark/Western Australia (WA), pictured above, is a winemaker with a sense of irony that’s married to a great feeling for harmony, a combination that I haven’t come across in this form since I … Continue reading
Mosel & Rhine Diary: Day 2 – Let #Riesling & Music do for You What They do for Me
New York somm Peter Weltman was still under age – shock, horror! – when he drank his first Riesling back in 2004. It was a Spätlese from J. J. Prüm in Wehlen/Mosel, probably from the Wehlener Sonnenuhr site that owes … Continue reading
Mosel & Rhine Riesling Diary: Day 0 – “Schaefer” is a Magical Word in the Riesling Vocabulary
NYC somm Peter Weltman (left) was lucky that Christoph Schaefer of the Willi Schaefer estate in Graach/Mosel (right) was the first winemaker he ever visited in Germany. What better place could there be to start deep immersion in the world … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 9 – My Romantic / Obsessive-Compulsive Wine Cellar
I’m often asked about my wine cellar, and sometimes I can see from the way the eyes of my questioner glaze over that they’re expecting something which looks like the crypt of a cathedral or at the least the cellar … Continue reading
London Riesling Diary: Day 2 – England’s Violent Dreaming
I would be hard to find a more boring scene to present to you than the above corner of Bromley, the London suburb where I – also David Bowie – come from. The point is that I could have used … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 36 – Arizona Dreaming – “There are no Facts, only interpretations”
A brief philosophical intro: There’s no way around the fact that the context (the natural and human aspects are so interwoven it’s almost impossible to separate them) in which a wine is produced shape it. However, there’s also no way around … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 31 – My American Wine Year Already Began
This is the first blog posting I’ve written straight into this slot without any plan for some time, and it sure feels good to be shooting from the hip again. Normally, I’m very cautious of using military or firearm metaphors, … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 27 – RIESLING HEROES 2014 in Deutsch & English
Here, alternating in Deutsch and English, are my Riesling Heroes of 2014. Riesling-Helden? Klingt das nicht abgedroschen? Vielleicht schon. The Stranglers haben 1977 sehr überzeugend „No More Heroes“, keine Helden mehr, gesungen. Dieses Lied gegen Helden begeistert mich heute wie … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 20 – RIESLING REVELATIONS 2014 in Deutsch & English
Here, alternating in Deutsch and English, are my highlights of 2014. 2014 war mein persönliches Riesling-Jahr: Ich habe mein Riesling-Buch fertiggeschrieben und einer durstigen Welt vorgestellt. BEST WHITE WINE ON EARTH wurde im Juni in New York von Stewart, Tabori … Continue reading