Author Archives: Stuart

Riesling Rendezvous has just ended and as you can see from the photo above of the winemaker partners in the Washington State Riesling project ‘Eroica’ and guiding spirits of the event Ernst Loosen of Dr. Loosen in Bernkastel/Mosel (left) and … Continue reading →

OK, so the weather in Seattle is beautiful and the sun is shining brightly (doing its very best to make the billows smooth and bright), but the Riesling Rendezvous begins today and for Riesling producers from around Planet Wine this is … Continue reading →

    Every time I visit a new region I arrive with heavy baggage in the form of preconceptions about the way it ticks. My current visit to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia/ Canada was no exception. In global … Continue reading →

These cherries which I found today at the Granville Island market were my first sighting of the Okanagan Valley in unfermented form. The link between fruit-growing and wine- growing is something few non-winegrowers are aware of. Almost nothing is more … Continue reading →

Everywhere I eat and drink in Vancouver/BC dry Riesling from the Okanagan Valley is available as if this stopped being something requiring any discussion a very long time ago. When I asked I was told that it’s one of the … Continue reading →

If it wasn’t for Canadian Bob Madill (pictured above) I wouldn’t have fully grasped how the Rieslings of the Finger Lakes/New York tick, or how the leading producers there reinvented those wines (primarily through improved viticultural methods) during the last … Continue reading →

I had some serious problems with my computer system, which meant that the photographs for this posting only just went online. That’s very disappointing considering the considerable effort I made to come up with good photographs here in the Finger … Continue reading →

In England where I grew up and was raised we say, “the proof is in the pudding”, meaning that theories are fine, but the crucial test is how things function in the real world. Last night Bob Madill of Sheldrake … Continue reading →

Yesterday I was busy in NYC with the exuberant and joyful Gay Pride March, then the birthday celebrations of my friend Volker Donabaum (see below), but after reading the news early this morning there was no alternative but to postpone … Continue reading →