Honestly, when I wrote yesterday’s posting I didn’t sit down to write a lecture on very cool climate viticulture, or to brag about having planted a small, but daring vineyard in an edgy location, but I guess I ended up doing exactly those things. Sorry! What I should have done was concentrate upon my appearance this evening and tomorrow afternoon & evening at the NEW YORK WINE RIOT (at the 69th Regiment Armory, 68 Lexington Ave) and the screening of my film WATCH YOUR BACK – The Riesling Movie (Part 1) at Terroir Murray Hill in New York Wine City (NYWC) at 10pm on Sunday. Admission is free as long as you drink Riesling. As you can see from the picture above, during the two years I was working on this 50 minute mockumentary – a documentary style movie in which fact and fiction are blurred in order to make reality clearer and more entertaining – I got used to watching my back. I’m not sure I can or should stop doing that either.
I would never have been able to make this movie without the help of my producer, editor and cutter Klaus Lüttmer of Dolce Vista film production in Berlin. I also have to acknowledge the vital assistance of Marcarthur Baralla of Defendschee Productions in Brooklyn who shot all the interviews with winemakers and somms and the concluding scene of the movie. Then there are the important people in NYWC like Aldo Sohm of Le Bernardin (pictured with me above at his wonderful new Aldo Sohm Wine Bar) and Paul Grieco of Hearth and the Terroir wine bars and Chris Miller of Harlan Estate in Napa (then of Spago Beverley Hills) who all threw themselves at my project with great energy and enthusiasm, just as I will throw myself at the Wine Riot from 7pm this evening!
There I will be conducting a program of four Riesling Crash Courses per session. The timings are as follows:
Riesling Boot Camp (Aromas) on Friday @ 8pm, and on Saturday @ 2pm & 8pm
Riesling Boot Camp (Acidity) on Friday @ 8:30pm, and on Saturday @ 2:30pm & 8:30pm
Riesling Deep End (America) on Friday @ 9pm, and on Saturday @ 3pm & 9pm
Riesling Deep End (Germany) on Friday @ 9:30pm and on Saturday @ 3:30pm & 9:30pm
To book tickets for the New York WINE RIOT go to:
https://secondglass.com/event-categories/event/NYC-2014-fall/features/
