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Australian Riesling Diary: Day1 – The Wild West of Riesling Oz (with Irony)

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Stuart

Andrew Hoadley of La Violetta Wines in Denmark/Western Australia (WA), pictured above, is a winemaker with a sense of irony that’s married to a great feeling for harmony, a combination that I haven’t come across in this form since I … Continue reading →

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Singapore Riesling Diary: Day 2 – Under the Swan, the Lion and the Unicorn (Part 4) – In Memory of Philip Eyres

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Stuart

“Those who deny history are condemned to repeat it,” George Santanaya This is the fourth and final installment of the talk on my Life and Riesling I gave at the Riesling Fellowship evening on Thursday, January 29th at Vintners Hall … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 2 – Under the Swan, the Lion and the Unicorn (Part 3) – In Memory of Philip Eyres

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Stuart

This is the third installment of the talk I gave at the Riesling Fellowship evening on Thursday, January 29th at Vintners Hall in the City of London. I was invited to speak for 15 minutes about my life and Riesling … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 1 – Under the Swan, the Lion and the Unicorn (Part 2) – In memory of Philip Eyres

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Stuart

This is the second installment of the talk I gave at the Riesling Fellowship evening in the Vintners Hall in London on January 29th. To fully grasp the context of the below it would help to read my previous posting … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 0 – Under the Swan, the Lion and the Unicorn (Part 1) – In memory of Philip Eyres

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Stuart

Here is the first installment of the talk I gave at the Riesling Fellowship yesterday (Thursday, January 29th) evening at Vintners Hall in the City of London. Along with Hew Blair and Sebastian Thomas I was made a Riesling Fellow … Continue reading →

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Mosel & Rhine Diary: Day 2 – Let #Riesling & Music do for You What They do for Me

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Stuart

New York somm Peter Weltman was still under age – shock, horror! – when he drank his first Riesling back in 2004. It was a Spätlese from J. J. Prüm in Wehlen/Mosel, probably from the Wehlener Sonnenuhr site that owes … Continue reading →

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Mosel & Rhine Riesling Diary: Day 0 – “Schaefer” is a Magical Word in the Riesling Vocabulary

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Stuart

NYC somm Peter Weltman (left) was lucky that Christoph Schaefer of the Willi Schaefer estate in Graach/Mosel (right) was the first winemaker he ever visited in Germany. What better place could there be to start deep immersion in the world … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 9 – My Romantic / Obsessive-Compulsive Wine Cellar

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Stuart

I’m often asked about my wine cellar, and sometimes I can see from the way the eyes of my questioner glaze over that they’re expecting something which looks like the crypt of a cathedral or at the least the cellar … Continue reading →

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London Riesling Diary: Day 2 – England’s Violent Dreaming

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Stuart

I would be hard to find a more boring scene to present to you than the above corner of Bromley, the London suburb where I – also David Bowie – come from. The point is that I could have used … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day 36 – Arizona Dreaming – “There are no Facts, only interpretations”

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Stuart

A brief philosophical intro: There’s no way around the fact that the context (the natural and human aspects are so interwoven it’s almost impossible to separate them) in which a wine is produced shape it. However, there’s also no way around … Continue reading →

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