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New York Riesling Diary: Day 55 – Remembering Pan Am Flight 103

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Stuart

25 years ago today Pan Am Flight 103 from London Heathrow to New York JFK broke up in mid-air after a bomb ripped a hole in it and crashed on the village of Lockerbie in Scotland. This anniversary has a … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 52 – Ontario’s Delicious (Riesling & Pinot Noir) Contradictions

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Stuart

It wasn’t part of any plan, but one thing lead to another and yesterday afternoon at Hotel Delmano in Williamsburg/Brooklyn I hosted a tasting of Rieslings and Pinot Noirs from the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario/Canada for a group of New … Continue reading →

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New York Diary: Day 50 – The Truth about American Wine, starring Clark Smith (author of ‘Postmodern Winemaking’)

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Stuart

For a moment yesterday afternoon I was lost in the designer basement of the ACE Hotel on West 29th Street. Which of the many black doors was it behind? I decided to start “at the beginning” with the door with … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 47 – My New Bio

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Stuart

My book manuscript has been edited and is now with the designer, so I can finally catch up with a slew of other things that spent months circling unable to land. High on this list is a new bio for … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 44 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ (Part 5 – Where are We Heading, Farther in the Direction of Global Cyber-Fascism or Back Towards Liberty?)

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Stuart

Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), Today is the most important day for Liberty, Freedom and Democracy since the wave of revelations about your activities … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 42 – Over the Mountains and Far Away in Georgia (in Williamsburg/Brooklyn!)

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Stuart

Seldom have I experienced a tasting like that of Georgian wines which Lisa Granik MW presented this afternoon at Hotel Delmano in Williamsburg/Brooklyn. Even in New York Wine City (NYWC) where the culture of excellence and plain old hot competition … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 40 – “Florian, what the Hell are You doing Here in NYWC?”

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Stuart

Suddenly, yesterday afternoon I got a text message from a French number telling me that Florain Busch of the Clemens Busch estate in Pünderich/Mosel was in town and would like to meet up for lunch today. Luckily I didn’t have … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 39 – NJWRT2, the World (i.e. NYWC) may not want to believe it, but Northern New Jersey is making some Great Wines including Riesling!)

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Stuart

Yes, the world (i.e. New York Wine City, or NYWC) may not want to believe it, but Northern New Jersey is making some great wines including Riesling! That’s where I was yesterday, on my second New Jersey Wine Road Trip … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 36 – BEST WHITE WINE ON EARTH The Riesling Story is On Course for Planet Earth!

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Stuart

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its the corrected copyedited manuscript of BEST WHITE WINE ON EARTH – The Riesling Story and it is now on course for Planet Earth. I can’t give you an exact ETA yet … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 32 – You’re not There

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Stuart

This enigmatic picture reminds me of the 2007 Todd Haynes movie ‘I’m not There’ staring a handful of actors including Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan. That fits, because the person pictured, Rienne Martinez, has just become the ex-manager of the … Continue reading →

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