Stuart Pigott

Stuart Pigott ( born May 26, 1960 in Orpington, London ) is a British wine critic, author and journalist. He is considered an unconventional wine critic and internationally as one of the best connoisseurs of German wine.

Life

Pigott studied from 1979 painting and art history in London at Goldsmiths College and at St. Martins School of Art After a year-long study break, during which he worked as a wine waiter in the restaurant of the Tate Gallery, he continued his studies at the Royal College of Art London continues.

His journalistic work that began in 1980 with contributions for a New York art periodical. From 1993, he worked again with painting. After graduating in 1986, Pigott devoted to the subject of wine full time. In 1989 he moved from London to Bernkastel- Kues on the Mosel to. Since late 1993, lives and works as a freelance writer Stuart Pigott in his adopted hometown of Berlin. From 2008 to 2009 Pigott studied two semesters at the College of Viticulture in Geisenheim / Rheingau. Then he experimented for a year with hands- Müller -Thurgau vines of Central Franconian vineyard farmhouse steel in the Tauber Valley.

Stuart Pigott regularly writes wine columns for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper, the gourmet and fine. The wine magazine. His writing style he called " gonzo wine journalism", referring to an " unconditional research that involved the journalist deeply into his subject. " On the subject of wine, he represents theses as " wine can be almost everywhere produced in the world" and everyone could even decide whether a wine -tasting or not, there was no need to wine criticism.

Pigott is married to the sommelier and culinary journalist Ursula Heinzelmann.

Social Commitment

Stuart Pigott support for his project "Wine helps. Wine lovers against AIDS, " the German AIDS Foundation. The proceeds will go to benefit HIV and AIDS projects in southern Africa, where about 67 percent of all infected people live around the world.

Together with other international wine critics he committed against the planned construction of the high- Moselle crossing, a four-lane road bridge across the Moselle with a subsequent route through the vineyards.

Publications (selection )

  • Hugh Johnson: Atlas of German wines. Munich 1995
  • The leading wineries and wines of Germany. Econ, Dusseldorf 1998
  • With a splash of wine. Bern 1998
  • Nectar and delusion. Munich 1999
  • My wine home - The great white wines of Germany. Munich 2001
  • Brave New World of Wine. Of the effects of globalization on the culture of wine. Argon, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-87024-614-6; Joke, ISBN 978-3-502-15085-5.
  • Planet Wine. Joke, Frankfurt aM 2005, ISBN 978-3-502-15877-6.
  • Wine speaks German. Wines, winemakers, vineyard landscapes. Joke, Frankfurt aM 2007, hardcover, ISBN 978-3-502-19000-4.
  • Wild wine. Journey into the future of the wine. Fischer, Frankfurt aM 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-16380-9.
  • Wine away. Expeditions from Norway through the Caucasus to China. Joke, Frankfurt aM 2009, ISBN 978-3-502-15115-9.
  • With Ursula Heinzelmann, Chandra Kurt, Manfred Lüer: Stuart Pigott Wine Tours - Baden and Alsace. Joke, Frankfurt aM 2009, ISBN 978-3-502-15176-0.
  • With Chandra Kurt, Manfred Lüer: Stuart Pigott Wine Tours - Mosel. Joke, Frankfurt aM 2009, ISBN 978-3-502-15173-9.
  • Wine miracle Germany. Tre Torri Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-941641-37-2.
  • Stuart Pigott less ingenious Wine Guide 2010. Joke, Frankfurt aM 2010, ISBN 978-3-502-15100-5.

Awards

Movies

  • Wine miracle Germany. Discover Germany with Stuart Pigott. Documentary series in 12 episodes of 30 minutes each, Germany, 2010/2011, Book: Stuart Pigott, Alexander Saran, directed by Alexander Saran, Producer: Bayerisches Fernsehen.
  • Wine critic Stuart Pigott TV report, Germany, 2008, 4:44 min, overhead, production: RBB, first broadcast 11 September 2008 online video.
  • Gourmet in 60 minutes - is that possible? Conversation, Germany, 2006, 55 min, nachtstudio with Volker Panzer, Production ZDF, first broadcast April 23, 2006 By Sarah Wiener, Ursula Heinzelmann, Johanna Maier, Peter Hahne, Stuart Pigott. .
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