Category Archives: I Am Wine
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 2 – Wine of the Month May
2012 Westhofener Riesling trocken from Rupper-Deginther for just Euro 6! Sorry Riesling friends in America, Japan and a bunch of other countries. You can’t just pop out to the neighborhood liquor store and buy this delicious dry Riesling from Jungwinzer … 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 33 – The sensational value for money Wine of the Month March 2013
2011 Riesling trocken ‘Alte Reben’ from Schneider – das Weingut The Mittelrhein region of Germany is small and little-known, although this is the Romantic Rhine which inspired poets and painters from the early years of the 19th century. More important … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 5 – Wine of the Month Feb. 2013
2012 Weißburgunder trocken from Gysler It’s way too early to think of drinking the better quality 2012 Rieslings from the Northern Hemisphere yet. Most of them are still in a raw state and some of them are still fermenting! One … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 5 – Wine of the Month December 2012
Riesling “Visión” from Cono Sur for $13.99 My last working day was one of quiet brainstorming which ended with me dropping into Edi and the Wolf on Avenue C. It’s not the only funky restaurant on the street, but it’s … Continue reading
Wine of the Month November 2012
2011 Rivaner from Karl H. Johner for € 8 What? A Rivaner as wine of the month at STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL instead of a Riesling? Rivaner is the alias of Müller-Thurgau and MT is part of the enemy!, or? … Continue reading
Wine of the Month October 2012
2011 Riesling “SPONTAN”, € 9.50 from Lubentiushof Often at STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL I ask lots of probing questions and seek hard answers to them, but here I just shoot from the hip trying to keep quality, value for money … Continue reading
Wine of the Month September 2012
Elbling Crémant from Stephan Steinmetz for €9 Riesling is the traditional wine grape on the Mosel, right? Wrong. Riesling certainly has a really long history on the Mosel and has been dominant in the vineyards of the most famous wine … Continue reading
Wine of the Month August 2012
2011 Lagrein Rosé Schreckbichl € 7.90 For several years, together with Hammers Weinkostbar, one of Berlin and Germany’s best winebars, I’ve been organizing blind tastings under the name ‘Wein Lab’ for the Wein Hilft, or wine helps, charity (see www.weinhilft.de, … Continue reading
Wine of the Month July 2012
2011 „Steinwiege“ Riesling trocken Schnaitmann € 8.60 Riesling from Württemberg? Surely the Mosel, Rhine and Nahe – the three valleys often declared to be the Homelands of Riesling – have enough exciting wines to offer that it isn’t necessary to … Continue reading