Monthly Archives: December 2012

Each day is the beginning of a new Riesling year, but that doesn’t mean the official New Year doesn’t exist. Today I’m taking a train northwards to Albany/NY where friends will pick me up and take me to their home … Continue reading →

How many times did somebody tell me that painting had died? Any number of times, and although it sometimes looked like it might be true it never was. It always came back to life and was every bit as vital … Continue reading →

So far I’ve said precious little about this cosy and mind-expanding place I’m staying in New York Wine City, or the astonishing process by which these stories make their way from the inner recesses of my brain into the wide … Continue reading →

This elaborate apparatus has nothing to do with wine and everything to do with coffee. I found it in a high-brow coffee place in Williamsburg/New York today where they’re busy trying to turn coffee into the New Wine. As far … Continue reading →

The last few days were a bit short on postings because of the holidays and my continuing struggle to recover from the influenza-type virus which has been going around. Today I was in the American Museum for Natural History in … Continue reading →

What is a close up of a cauliflower doing at the top of this posting? Well, today we’re heading back into the Feiring Line, because in her book ‚Naked Wine’ (Da Capo Press, Cambridge/MA, 2012) Alice Feiring raises an issue … Continue reading →

New York wine writer Alice Feiring doesn’t seem to be interested in Riesling, so why am I writing about her today? Well, her work brings up something crucial about wine geography. That’s an vitat subject, because people think about wine … Continue reading →

  Who tops the celebrity list in the Riesling Who’s Who of America? There’s no question in my mind, that it’s Paul Grieco, the self-proclaimed Riesling Overlord of the New York wine scene. When he won the James Beard Award … Continue reading →

  Note: I just made a few important changes to this. The heavy cold I had when I wrote it dulled my mind slightly. Thankfully I’m feeling a lot better and clearer in my head today. Maybe it’s all just … Continue reading →