Author Archives: Stuart

This is the extraordinary label for an extraordinary Riesling that I bumped into this week. Theoretically I’m in 24/7 solitary confinement frantically working on the manuscript for my new book BWWOE, which Abrams Books of New York will be publishing … Continue reading →

This is another post for which no opening image image could possibly be adequate, not least because we’ve seen just about every image from New York on this day in 2001 so many times before. And those which are still … Continue reading →

Pictured above is new new desk on West 16th Street, the place where I’m feverishly working like crazy on the manuscript of my new book BWWOE. Probably more of the book will be written here than anywhere else, although my … Continue reading →

I only seem to have been running since the first official presentation of the 2012 Riesling “Grosse Gewächse” (GG) just over a week ago in Wiesbaden. Of course, I’ve had it easy compared with some of my colleagues, because I … Continue reading →

Since August 22nd when the New York Times printed a quote from the text below which stands on page 8 of the Terry Theise Selections German wine catalogue (thank you again Eric Asimov for drawing our attention to it) a … Continue reading →

The last couple of days I was tasting, tasting, tasting like all the other journalists, experts, somms and geeks gathered on the Rhine to attend the various presentations the high-end dry wines of the 2012, a large portion of which … Continue reading →

The last years there was a lot of discussion in the German media about the failure of multicultural society in Germany, and if you only looked at certain sections of the large immigrant communities from Turkey and ex-Yugoslavia, then there … Continue reading →

Today I was going to give you a glimpse of the stories I’ll be posting here after I deliver the manuscript for my new Riesling book ‘BWWOE’ to my publisher, Abrams in New York City November 1st, but I just … Continue reading →

After my dinner last night at the Chinese restaurant Hot Spot in Berlin-Wilmersdorf with Martin Tesch of the Tesch winery in Langenlonsheim/Nahe I can tell you that the world according to Tesch is seriously interesting. Martin’s started by telling me … Continue reading →

Damn! I just realized that it’s an entire week since I put up a new post, which certainly wasn’t my plan, but when you’re book writing at 2,000 miles an hour as I have been almost every day for the … Continue reading →