A CURIOUS COLLECTION FROM ALZINGER, 2024
“Curious” only because it included a few of the early-bottled 2023s, and then jumped to the 2021 Smaragds, leapfrogging over most of the...
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Terry Theise
3 days ago1 min read
Didier Gimonnet - An open heart & mind
I wish to share this remarkable document of one grower’s experience of the 2024 Champagne harvest. I think it is a lovely document,...
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Terry Theise
5 days ago15 min read
ANNUAL REPORT: SECOND-FLUSH DARJEELING 2024
I do not live in Darjeeling, and I have never visited there. I do not claim expertise. I do know how to ask the right questions to people...
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Terry Theise
Nov 1522 min read
GERMANY VISIT OCT 2024. Part-2
They were picking grapes at SCHLOSS LIESER but I had a chance to schmooze with Thomas Haag (on his forklift) about the election – he...
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Terry Theise
Nov 1328 min read
GERMANY VISIT, OCTOBER 2024 – part one
Germany was interesting, but not for the reasons I expected. First of all you couldn’t get anywhere, and then you couldn’t see anything,...
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Terry Theise
Nov 112 min read
2024 NEWBIES FROM CHRISTIAN DAUTEL
Dautel is the story of today’s Württemberg in microcosm. It’s also the story of the contemporary wine drinker, who are fewer in number...
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Terry Theise
Oct 75 min read
A BOOK, AN EMBLEM OF ALSACE WINE, AND A SUPERB RHEINGAU GROWER
The book is truly the best thing I’ve read in the last few years. It is Steve Hoffman’s A Season For That, and it has already been...
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Terry Theise
Sep 112 min read
2022s From Dönnhoff
I am painfully aware that Dönnhoff’s 2023s are busy entering the market, and yet here I am reporting on the ‘22s . Blame it on the...
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Terry Theise
Aug 212 min read
GATHER THEE THY WINNINGS
The heat finally broke yesterday, so we took the best of the GGs – Pechstein and Kirchenstück – outside to sip on the deck, with our...
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Terry Theise
Aug 201 min read
GREAT NEWS ON THE LALLEMENT FRONT
The wines will be available on a DTC basis by heading over to VinConnect . This is a limited time offer, so please don’t delay if you...
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