Goodbye New York Wine City (NYWC). I shall try not to be sad as my plane takes off from JFK this evening and I hope that you won’t either. You were so full of surprises, including many wonderful Riesling surprises, these last 60 days. Regular readers will have already found out about many of them. Now it’s time to change perspective and tone. Until I return to NYWC on March 4th this will be a BERLIN RIESLING DIARY, but stay in American English and, of course, stay true to this site’s core theme. However, in Berlin no less than in NYWC I will have my eyes peeled for the unexpected, the absurd and the beautiful, whatever it might be. For example, I found the below on a sidewalk in the Lower East Side and couldn’t help laugh. As some of you found out during my stay in NYWC I often can’t help laughing, and the sound of my laugh can be heard at a great distance. This is also the work of the Riesling Force that moves not only in the wines of best white wine grape on earth, but in many other things that either connected to Riesling in a logical or inexplicably way. Many thanks to all those who helped me and were so generous in so many ways. Thanks to all of you I was in a very favored position almost all the time I was in NYWC. May the Riesling Force be with You!
