Author Archives: Stuart

London Riesling Diary: Day 1 – Steel in the Soul

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Stuart

Outrageous! The energy and creativity, greed and arrogance of London are right outside the window as I write this (above) and I don’t think there’s anything I need to say more about them than to observe that I’m currently torn … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 11 – Horst Hummel’s Hungarian Red Wine Revelations from the “ignoble” Portugieser Grape

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Stuart

One of the most fundamental aspects of the way we think about wine is the division of grape varieties into two groups, the “noble” wine grapes and all the other wine grapes which are considered more or less “ignoble”. For … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 8 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ (Part 7 – The Life of the Others)

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Stuart

Are the German people really no more than shadows? Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), as you well know I’m now in Berlin writing this in … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 4 – The Kurpfalz Weinstuben is one of the World’s Best Wine Restaurants and a Very Good Reason to Travel to Berlin (like I just did)

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Stuart

The Kurpfalz Weinstuben is one of the world’s best wine restaurantsand a very good reason to travel to Berlin (like I just did). But it’s so eccentric that many unadventurous people, who really ought to know better, i.e. be more … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 67 – Another Nail in the Coffin of the Absurd and Disastrous Mosel Bridge?

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Stuart

The shit is hitting the fan because the absurd and disastrous Mosel Bridge under construction close to Ürzig and Zeltingen-Rachtig on the Mosel Valley is finally being questioned. A week ago I reported how Der Spiegel, Germany’s equivalent of TIME … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 65 – Wine of the Month, January 2014

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Stuart

El Maestro Sierra Oloroso (15 years old) Euro 11,95 in Berlin from www.vinos.de $ 19,99 per half in NYC from www.flatiron-wines.com Not Riesling? Not even a complex aromatic white? Nor even a rich and subtle red? No. My wine of the … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 64 – A New Year and New Life!

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Stuart

I may be British and a visitor to the USA, but the assertion of the American Declaration of Independence of July 4th 1776 that there are certain  rights and that these include, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” made … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 62 – Thank You Wynton Marsalis! (Thank you Jürgen Fränznick!)

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Stuart

When I see New York Wine City (NYWC) looking like this the music I hear in my head is Wynton Marsalis’ trumpet, for even though he was raised in New Orleans no other contemporary jazz musician strikes me as having … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 60 – Finally, Hope for the Mosel and the End for the Mosel Bridge?

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Stuart

Sarah and Knut are hopeful for the first time in almost three years, and that makes me hopeful too. In fact, this is my second reason for feeling hopeful this Christmas (for the first scroll down to the previous post). … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 58 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ (Part 6 – Out of the Vast Shadow, again!)

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Stuart

There are no shadows without light! Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), the publication today by The Washington Post of an in-depth interview with Edward … Continue reading →

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