By Robert Giorgione on September 6, 2012
The readers of this blog and those who have engaged with me and my website before will probably know that I’m rather fond of Riesling – especially the German variety. To be honest, I could probably drink a German Riesling on every occasion possible, let alone just over a period of 31 days! A couple of months [...]
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By Robert Giorgione on January 2, 2012
Happy New Year to all of you! Perhaps you’re possibly reading this, (my first blog article of 2012) with a raging hangover, especially after all the recent festive shenanigans. We celebrated in style. But what I would like to know is, why do so many people feel it necessary to broadcast their “mammoth hangovers” on Twitter? I, on [...]
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By Robert Giorgione on February 5, 2011
We should all know by now, that when you say Riesling you smile. At the recent “Wine Barn” German wine tasting in London, I caught up with and interviewed a couple of people. These were fellow sommelier Andrew Connor of Lutyens Restaurant and Gunther Hauck of Weingut Bassermann-Jordan. The latter is a wine producer at a [...]
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By Robert Giorgione on February 4, 2011
I first met Iris Ellmann of The Wine Barn around eleven years ago. It was way back in 2000, while working as Head Sommelier at La Tante Claire that I was introduced to her by fellow sommelier Ronan Sayburn. Over the years, she has done so much for German wines, especially to ensure that they [...]
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By Robert Giorgione on December 15, 2010
I love Riesling. In fact, as you may already be aware, I have this lovely phrase “When You Say RIESLING You SMILE“. An invite plopped into my inbox around a month or so ago from an old friend Walter Speller to attend a vertical tasting of Rieslings going back to the 1960′s from one of [...]
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By Robert Giorgione on January 19, 2010
I met Iris Ellmann, Managing Director of The Wine Barn Ltd ten years ago. In fact, I was introduced by a friend and fellow sommelier Ronan Sayburn. At the time, I was Head Sommelier of La Tante Claire restauarnt and he was at Gordon Ramsay, Royal Hospital Road. It was extremely fitting that, this week [...]
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By Robert Giorgione on April 16, 2009
Over the past few years, I have visited Germany on many occasions and have seen a dramatic and exciting development in their wines. Not only has the quality improved, but the overall perception of German wines has too. In general, things have been modernised and are more positive. You could say it has become a [...]
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