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New York Riesling Diary: Day 24 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ, (Part 4 – does your vocabulary still contain the words “amoral” or “immoral”?)
Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), Back on November 2nd when I INVITED YOU to read and listen in to all my correspondence and promised … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 22 – How Randall Grahm will Doon it Until the Day He Dies
The picture shows Randall Grahm, the guiding spirit of Bonny Doon Vineyard of Santa Cruz, CA, USA, Earth at lunch today in The Breslin on West 29th Street, Manhattan, NY, USA, Earth. However, what it actually records is a moment … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 18 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ, (Part 3 – Legal Implications)
Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), being a British subject, a permanent resident of the Federal Republic of Germany and a frequent visitor to the … Continue reading
New York Riesling Diary: Day 6 – Dear NSA, Dear GCHQ (Part 1 – An Invitation)
Dear General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA), Dear James Clapper (National Director of Intelligence), Dear Sir Lain Lobban (Director of GCHQ), Listen up, because here comes something exciting, positive and new! Along with a large part of the world’s population … Continue reading
Riesling Road Trip: Day 4 – 25 Hours Later in Austin/Texas
Yes, our drive from Phoenix/Arizona to Austin Texas via Marfa/Texas clocked in at 25 hours. 25 hours is a really strange unit of time and if you decide to do it, then I promise that it will do something really … Continue reading
Riesling Road Trip: Day 3 – The Importance of Refreshment
I was running, as I try to do every morning, and suddenly there it was with nothing else visible to the horizon. The eternal window-shopper in me liked the look of what he saw displayed in the ‘Prada Store’ just … Continue reading
On the Riesling Trail: Day 12 – A Close Encounter of the Third Kind with Great Californian Riesling
In the intense sunlight out of a blue sky the yellow of the grass and the deep blue of the pines had a clarity you won’t find anywhere in Europe no matter which time of year it is or which … Continue reading
On the Riesling Road: Day 2 – Cellar Extension and Consciousness Expansion
I’m just a humble citizen of Planet Wine and a Riesling Fellow Traveler who’s repeatedly damned to adopt the mantle of a prophet. OK, in this case that’s like me complaining that the forest is burning down after having been … Continue reading
Riesling Think Piece Nr.9: A Man’s got to do what a Man’s got to do (Part 2) + Comment by Doug Krenik
Hey guys, I don’t want to make life uncomfortable for you, but there are some hard facts I think you need to face up to, because at the moment some of you are being cheated by the wine industry. Those … Continue reading
FLXtra: Part 1 – Breaking the Boundaries at Boundary Breaks Vineyard
The Finger Lakes, increasingly well known under the acronym FLX, is a dynamic wine region that keeps drawing me back to it, but many people in New York Wine City, or NYWC as I call it, continue to look down … Continue reading