Author Archives: Stuart

As the blackboard at Edi and the Wolf on Avenue C at East 7th Street where I had dinner last night boldly declares there is Wahrheit im Wein,  truth in wine. I like this ancient saying precisely because it’s highly … Continue reading →

There it is, a typical Riesling landscape, also a typical German wine landscape with those famous steep vineyards and a river at their foot, or? The Bremmer Calmont vineyard in the Mosel Valley pictured above is probably the steepest in … Continue reading →

If I’m lucky then tomorrow when I reach the one week mark there will be a dull and inexplicable BOOM over the city which the people will hardy notice because of all the other nice, but which will make the … Continue reading →

Finally here are the eagerly awaited results of the blind tasting of 12 dry Rieslings from the Rheinhessen region of Germany plus three ringers (same grape, same vintage, also dry) which took place on the evening of Wednesday, November 28th … Continue reading →

Last night I unknowingly walked right into the as yet unopened new home of New York’s self-proclaimed “Schnitzel Mafia”, a bar called The Third Man in a very funky (read low-rent) location in Alphabet City. According to the story titled … Continue reading →

This morning I’m seriously KO after the exertion of organizing yesterday evening’s tasting of dry Rieslings from the Rheinhessen region of Germany at Trestle on Tenth (thank you guys for the great support!) But when I think about talented young … Continue reading →

Of course, you’re wondering what three young German winegrowers holding glasses of red wine are doing adorning episode two of my New York Riesling Diary. Well tonight at 6pm at Trestle on Tenth (Tenth Avenue and 24th Street) the American … Continue reading →

Finally I made it to New York for two months of intensive Riesling meditation and group therapy. I’m writing this seated at the window of my room in the Jürgen Fränznick’s apartment in the East Village watching the rain trying … Continue reading →

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhOm5OsOt0k&feature=youtu.be Click on the above link to see the film about Riesling I shot this summer and fall in New York, Berlin and the Rheingau. I may be no Stanley Kubrick, no Quentin Tarantino or Frederico Fellini, but with the … Continue reading →