There’s little need to write much in the way of explanation for these images from the NYWC Wine Riot yesterday evening and today, except to point out that it was 2013 vintage dry Rieslings from Dr. Loosen on the Mosel, Robert Weil in the Rheingau and Wittmann in Rheinhessen which generated this excitement at the end of the crash courses on dry German Riesling I gave at this off-the-scale wine event. By the way, I never saw any of the people pictured with me before they entered crash course zone B where I was performing and will do so twice more this evening.
This picture shows that the tattoo culture unleashed by the Summer of Riesling back in 2008 is still very much alive and kicking, even if officially the Summer of Riesling now only happens at the Terroir wine bars. Just the other evening at Terroir TriBeCa I experienced an astonishing food and wine pairing by complete chance. Kelby Russell, the winemaker of Red Newt in the FLX wanted to try the dry 2013 Gaisberg Riesling from Schloss Gobelsburg in the Kamptal region of Austria and it arrived almost simultaneously with our burgers. It was totally “wrong” according to all the rules and the books, but it tasted so very right!
