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New York Riesling Diary: Day 29 – Serious Riesling Burnout after completing BEST WHITE WINE ONE EARTH

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Stuart

Yes, this posting should have gone online 36 hours ago, but completing the final corrections of BEST WHITE WINE ON EARTH left me with serious Riesling burnout and there was nothing to do but hit the snooze button big time. … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 26 – The Inspiration of New York Wine City for BEST WHITE WINE ON EARTH

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Stuart

I sit in My Sun Room on West 16th Street in Manhattan impatiently waiting for the last set of proofs for my book BEST WHITE WINE ON EARTH – The Riesling Story, which Stewart, Tabori & Chang (an imprint of … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 22 – Too late for BEST WHITE WINE ON EARTH, but still a Riesling Superman!

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Stuart

Almost exactly two years and two months ago I began research for BEST WHITE WINE ON EARTH – The Riesling Story, which Stewart, Tabori & Chang will publish here in New York Wine City (NYWC) in June and the book … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 21 – Crowds and Wine

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Stuart

closetogetherclosetogethercloestogetherclosetogetherclosetogetherclosetogether It really ought not to be a very original observation at all, but wine is sometimes a crowd phenomenon. This struck me very forcefully when I was at the Kosher Food & Wine Experience at the Chelsea Piers/NYWC two … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 16 – Rieslingfeier Returns to New York Wine City!

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Stuart

Two years ago Stephen Bitterolf of the vom Boden wine importing company took a daring decision and launched the Rieslingfeier festival celebrating German Rieslings in New York Wine City (NYWC). Last night this year’s Rieslingfeier began with a dinner at … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 14 – I’ve Nothing Against Elegant Chardonnay, but I Hate “Bullshit Chardonnay”

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Stuart

Yesterday I was at a very interesting blind tasting hosted by Patz & Hall winery of Sonoma/California at Corkbuzz Wine Studio in New York Wine City (NYWC). Called “site matters”, it was divided into two halves and it was the … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 10 – Joelle Thomson on New Zealand’s 3rd National Riesling Tasting

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Stuart

Joelle Thomson (the women with the Riesling back turned to the camera) is a journalist, wine writer and author of 14 books about wine in New Zealand. She was first bitten by the Riesling bug in 1994 and has never … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 8 – Wine of the Month February 2014

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Stuart

2012 Kiwi Wine $22 per half bottle from Hermit Woods Winery My humble apologies for the delay in posting the new wine of the month, but as soon as I got back to NYWC the last vital round of corrections … Continue reading →

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Florida Riesling Diary: Day 3 – The Warm Nostalgic Glow of this Sub-Tropical American Paradise

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Stuart

America is famously the place where everything, including the portions in restaurants, is BIG, but in many respects in recent years America has been overtaken in this by China, parts of the Ex-Soviet Union, the Arabian Peninsula and Brazil (just … Continue reading →

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London Riesling Diary: Day 2 – Vaughn Tan and the View thru the Windshield instead of the Rear-View Mirror

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Stuart

Vaughn Tan is one of the most interesting people I ever met. From the moment he opened his mouth the first time we met in a Cambridge/MA café on a snowy afternoon in early 2012 I could tell that we … Continue reading →

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