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Rhine Riesling Diary: Day 2 STOP PRESS – Tesch leaves VDP! (with an amazing comment by Justin Christoph)

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Stuart

Perhaps you already heard the news and your jaw already dropped as mine did when I read it in the Rhine Main Presse newspaper of April 22nd. The Tesch estate of Langenlonsheim/Name has left the elite VDP wines estates’ association … Continue reading →

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London Riesling Diary: Day 3 – In the Long Shadow

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Stuart

Here in London I feel that I’m in the long shadow of the British Empire. You can’t see this metaphysical shadow, but it’s no less real for that. Most of you couldn’t experience it as I do, because in order … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 9 – Dirk Würtz’s Rieslings demand RESSpekt (and taste unique)

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Stuart

Nobody could think up Dirk Würtz, winemaker of the Balthasar Ress estate in Hattenheim / Rheingau since 2009, if he didn’t already exist. Meeting him is like suddenly finding yourself in his movie and realizing that there’s no choice but … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 8 – Give us This Day Our Daily Bread, or the Story of Peter Klann – Part 4

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Stuart

Suddenly I was stopped dead in my storytelling tracks by an email that expressed outrage at something I wrote in one of the first three episodes of this story. This story is “only” about bread, just like most of the … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 6 – Let it Grow in Töplitz!

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Stuart

Those of you who’ve followed this blog for some time already know that on May 4th, 2013 a group of friends and I planted just shy of a thousand vines of the variety Pinotin (thank you vine breeder Valentin Blattner) … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 3 – Bukowski meets Müller-Thurgau @ The Cooks Connection / Berlin

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Stuart

“Hi! Remember me? I’m back!” is how the beat poet Charles Bukowski said he would greet the cockroaches in hell. It was also the perfect motto for yesterday evening’s mind-expanding multi-media wine tasting event at The Cooks Connection / Berlin, ‘Bukowski … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 1 – Wines of the Month April 2014

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Stuart

2012 Hölle Riesling trocken from Thörle for Euro 19,60 2012 Frauenberg Riesling trocken from Göhring for Euro 11,15 Of course, most of the German wine scene is currently totally fixated upon the 2013 vintage – new Rieslings and much else … Continue reading →

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On the Riesling Road Diary: Day 1 – Give us This Day Our Daily Bread, or the Story of Peter Klann – Part 3

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Stuart

It says a great deal about Peter Klann – until his death just over a year ago the guiding spirit of the Soluna Bakery in Berlin – that he should have chosen a white rabbit as the symbol for his … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 8 – Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread, or the Story of Peter Klann – Part 2

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Stuart

Normally I’m really good on dates but not for this story, because I didn’t consider it anything even vaguely resembling a story until long after it all happened and consequently didn’t take notes. This picture shows half a loaf of … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 5 – Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread, or the Story of Peter Klann – Part I

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Stuart

It was almost exactly a decade ago to the day that I began to think about bread actively for the first time and became aware of its relationship to wine (which only begins with the fact that both are the … Continue reading →

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