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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 11 – Wine of the Month April

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Stuart

2012 Riesling trocken from K.H. Schneider for just Euro 6,40 ! Andi Schneider of the K.H. Schneider estate in Bad Sobernheim/Nahe pictured above at the ProWein trade fair in Düsseldorf a few weeks back was one of my big discoveries … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 7 – Gonzo Wine Journalism Lives!

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Stuart

The world is finally waking up again after Easter / Passover / the holidays and just in time the German edition of VINUM magazine (04/2013, but not in the Swiss edition!) has just published a red hot piece of my … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 6 – Enter ‘The Dark Side’

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Stuart

WARNING! If you proceed any further you will be entering ‘The Dark Side’ and www.stuartpigott.de / Stuart Pigott Riesling Global accepts no responsibility for the consequences. Don’t forget that alcohol is a drug and Riesling contains alcohol. You have now … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 4 – In Memory of Peter Klann of the Soluna Bakery in Berlin

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Stuart

I was planning to write something completely different yesterday, but as John Lennon famously said “life is what happens while you’re making plans.” I’d just made early morning tea and my thoughts were slowly turning to that story, when the … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 1 – Strange-Familiar Territory

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Stuart

Being back in the Wine Metropolis (WM) Berlin after several weeks in New York Wine City (NYWC) feels mighty strange and all too familiar at once. The brief interval between NYWC and WM Berlin was filled by a couple of … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 17 – On the Road

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Stuart

In less than one hour I dash to JFK for my flight back to Germany (the ProWein trade fair in Düsseldorf looms on the horizon), but a much more extraordinary journey, the ‘Riesling Road Trip’ sponsored by Wines of Germany, … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 16 (Part 2) – Snowflakes

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Stuart

“These things are like snowflakes“, Austrian-American Kurt Gutenbrunner of the KG-NY Restaurant Group said of the dishes, beers and wines which are essential to the culinary cultures of Austria and Germany. It sounded so right, not just because each snowflake … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 16 (Part I)

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Stuart

Yesterday was full of surprises, of which the first was stepping into the 10th anniversary tasting of David Bowler Wine and bumping into Gernot Kollmann of the Immich Batterieberg estate in Enkirch/Mosel. He was one of the very first winemaking … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 14 – When the going get’s weird, the weird turn pro

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Stuart

The last 24 hours were a helper skelter of activity, ideas, surprises. Above is the film team and some of the real-life stars of WATCH YOUR BACK (a Riesling movie) at the end of the second day of shooting at … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 12 – Terroir or not Terroir? That is the Question!

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Stuart

I’ve written plenty about Paul Grieco, about Restaurant Hearth which he opened at 403 East 12th Street (at First Avenue) in New York’s East Village with Marco Canora back in 2003, and about his Terroir wine bar at 413 East … Continue reading →

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