Author Archives: Stuart

The photograph above shows me on the first day of the 2012 harvest at Weingut Klosterhof Töplitz close to Potsdam in Brandenburg/Germany. Note the poles and wires supporting the vines, also that the vines are planted in neat rows. One … Continue reading →

What do you do when you’re very passionate about Austrian wines, you want to expand the market for them in North America, but have almost no marketing budget. You do what Toni Silver (pictured above) of Monika Caha Selections did, … Continue reading →

It’s almost too obvious to need pointing out, but New York Wine City (NYWC) is often a crazy place. Never more so than on a day like today when one big tasting (A.I. Selections) and another huge one (Michael Skurnik … Continue reading →

Once again I’ve managed to get myself in trouble by looking for the truth in wine, although this time it’s an aspect of wine that has nothing to do with the taste: wine prices and the profits they make both … Continue reading →

I read the news, some of which is frightening, out on the street I see and hear people who are obviously suffering, and then I drink a glass of Riesling and I talk with people who enjoy Riesling, and I … Continue reading →

Those of you who think that tasting wine is some kind of holiday camp should examine the picture above of the Riesling Boot Camp I attended yesterday afternoon! Thanks to Bob Madill of Sheldrake Point winery in New York State’s … Continue reading →

I spent the whole day yesterday running around Manhattan/NYWC from one wine tasting to the next (four in all) and on paper not one of them had anything to do with Riesling. First up was a tasting of the wines … Continue reading →

I’d been in NYWC less than 24 hours and a minor storm about terroir (French for the taste of the place – a concept applicable to cheese no less than wine) blew up on twitter. A grossly over-simplified concept of … Continue reading →

Suddenly, inexplicably, finally, logically I’m back in New York Wine City (NYWC) and it feels like a dream I might abruptly awaken from, or that I’ve just awoken from a strange and gritty, colorful and comforting dream of Berlin…but I … Continue reading →

At noon today I bumped into Kerstin and Martin Tesch of the (in)famous Tesch estate in Langenlonsheim/Nahe at Hotel Kronenschlösschen in Hattenheim/Rheingau.  OK, strictly speaking “Berlin Riesling Diary” is not truthful, because today I’ve been in the Rheingau and the … Continue reading →