A funny thing happened at the Riesling Master Tasting I was asked to host at Vinitaly a week ago. It taught me a valuable lesson. Because of my long championing of the great German grape, I had been asked by the late Peter Duff to put my name to a Riesling Trophy in the annual International Wine & Spirit Competition . The IWSC and Vinitaly put their heads together and came up with the idea of my conducting a tasting of some favourite and representative Rieslings from around the world at the famous annual wine fair in Verona. I sent the following wish list, in my suggested order of serving, to the IWSC: Egon...