Monthly Archives: March 2014
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 5 – Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread, or the Story of Peter Klann – Part I
It was almost exactly a decade ago to the day that I began to think about bread actively for the first time and became aware of its relationship to wine (which only begins with the fact that both are the … Continue reading
Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 2 – Submerged, but Coming to the Surface
When stuff happens it often happens by the bucket-load. I’ve been back in Berlin 48, but I still feel lost in something like the dead-end pictured above. Don’t worry it really isn’t anything like as bad as this image makes … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 43 – Night Flight to Germany
John Lennon famous said that life was what happened while you were making plans. In my case it was sickness – a viscous bout of flu that left me weak and delirious – that happened and screwed almost all the … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 41 – The Wine Times they are a Changin’ in California, Austria and New York’s Finger Lakes
My apologies for the delay in getting this posting online, but I am sick with some kind of flu-type bug and struggling with everything as a result. Here it finally is! As noted just a few days ago, a sea … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 39 – New York State Wines in New York Wine City (NYWC) plus a Pink Elephant !
Today I was at the NY DRINKS NY Grand Tasting of New York State wines here in New York Wine City (NYWC) and although I’ve been exploring the state’s wines quite intensively for almost a decade there were still some … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 38 – The Strange Drinks Laboratory that is Brooklyn
Brooklyn was the subject of enormous foodie (and other) media hype in recent years, and you could be forgiven for thinking that this is the Holy Land of world gastronomy (and many other things). The images linked to this aura … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 35 – Climate, Weather and Wine Paradoxes (New York, Michigan, California)
Yes, today maybe the last day of winter in New York Wine City (NYWC) and things like this which sat in front of the door to tha apartment building on West 16th Street that I live in when I’m in … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 34 – How different the World of Wine (including that strange place called California) can be
One of the things which came out of the big wine tastings of the last days in New York Wine City is just how hard California is trying to convince the wine world that its wines aren’t all massive gooey … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 33 – OUTRAGEOUS! What should a Proper Gentleman think of what Mr. Randall Grahm (of Bonny Doon) has been up to in New York Wine City Today?
Normally I describe, comment and analyze. Today I am so flabbergasted that all I can do is to say how the sequence of photographs below came About. It all began harmlessly enough at the Michael Skurnik portfolio tasting today on … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 32 – The Chardonnay Problem and the Danger of a Global Chardonnay Meltdown
Yes, this blog is about Riesling, but because it’s about Riesling seen from a global perspective, because Riesling grows peacefully along side all manner of other grape varieties red and white, and because it is in competition with their wines … Continue reading