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New York Riesling Diary: Day 3 – Looking Back in Space-Time at Maynard James Keenan

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Stuart

TIME PAST AND WINES PAST! There’s no way round it, now I’m looking back both in time, and across diverse mountains, plains and rivers between my desk on the East Coast and the American Southwest and my actual Gonzo #AZwine … Continue reading →

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Arizona Riesling Diary: Day 5 – Drawing Big Conclusions about #AZwine on Down South Road Trip

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Stuart

The official program of the A2Z press trip to the wine regions of Arizona ended last night when I got back to the Four Points Hotel next door to Tuscon Airport from dinner at Augustin Restaurant. Full stop, end of … Continue reading →

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Arizona Riesling Diary: Day 4 – The Surprising HOW of AZ Wines (Believe Me, this Place isn’t all Desert)

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Stuart

The Big Problem with figuring out how Arizona can make exciting wines – scroll down to see how I became aware that it can do that – is the rigid stereotypes in my head, in our heads. The most obvious … Continue reading →

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Arizona Riesling Diary: Day 2 – How AZ is About to Change the Way We Think about American Wine

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Stuart

Fully aware of the journalist’s saying that there’s no such thing as a free lunch, I must report that during a generous and rather tasty dinner last night at The Asylum Restaurant in the Jerome Grand Hotel I had a … Continue reading →

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Arizona Riesling Diary: Day 1 – AZ Contradictions as Seen from the Gonzo Perspective (Part 2)

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Stuart

Of course, this is how many readers imagine my trip thru Arizona in search of unknown  Great American Wine, and, as you can gather from this photograph which I took on Highway 17 heading north from Phoenix to Jerome this … Continue reading →

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Arizona Riesling Diary: Day 1 – AZ Contradictions as seen from the Gonzo Perspective (Part 1)

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Stuart

Welcome to green Phoenix!  Normally, I reckon that the ideal blog posting is about a Great Wine Personality unfamiliar to the majority of readers and the ideal picture at the top of that ideal story is a photograph of that … Continue reading →

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New York Riesling Diary: Day One – Before My Gonzo AZ Wine Adventure

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Stuart

Which is the wrong wine direction, and how would you know that it’s “wrong”? Promptly timed for my return to New York Wine City (NYWC) today the weather turned grey and wintry. It seems a bit early for that seasonal … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 17 – NO, this Blog Posting is NOT About Dentistry, it’s All About the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Stuart

While the rest of Berlin was watching 7,000 balloons ascend poetically from the the line of the former Berlin Wall I was pulling my mouth open as far as I could for Gerhard Gneist, my dentist (pictured above in his … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 11 – Flowering Wine & Cheese Landscapes in and around Berlin

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Stuart

It’s a couple of years since I’d seen Sabine Denell of the Capriolenhof farm close to Fürstenberg about an hour’s drive north of Berlin, but it felt like we picked up our conversation where it left off just a day … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 9 – Why I Will Continue to Shoot from the Hip

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Stuart

I humbly apologize for the enormous gap sine the last posting, but when I arrived in Berlin from Israel I was suffering from a viral infection that didn’t want to go away. In spite of this there was a very … Continue reading →

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