MAY TRIP, DAY ONE
These are quick and dirty impressions of wines I’ll taste in detail later in the year. The notes are by no means definitive, nor was I...
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Terry Theise
Apr 19, 20227 min read
IT ISN’T POLITE TO POINT!
You must have seen that funny piece that came through the transom (via three different senders; the thing was everywhere) about “The...
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Terry Theise
Apr 4, 20226 min read
SEWING WILD HAUTES; IN PRAISE OF “FANCY” FOOD
Some friends recently described their opinions on restaurant food, and while they had strong views, those views were deeply earned by...
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Terry Theise
Mar 22, 20222 min read
Tasty/Drinky/Drinky/Tasty
You’ll have noticed, if your life is so drab and wretched that you’ve had time to read my previous posts, that I talk about the...
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Terry Theise
Mar 10, 20227 min read
2020 GERMAN RIESLINGS
You know the blues classic “Rolling And Tumbling?” The sub-headline for the 2020 vintage could very well read, Soaring And Plummeting....
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Terry Theise
Feb 23, 20221 min read
Selbach-Oster & Merkelbach
I’ll keep this brief, as the tasting report is running to nearly 13,000 words. It was always an all-day task, tasting the new vintage at...
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Terry Theise
Feb 14, 20222 min read
Can’t stop thinking of Cantzheim
Full disclosure; I have a small-scaled but very sweet commercial relationship with this estate, whereby I broker them to a couple old...
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Terry Theise
Jan 25, 20222 min read
WEINGUT WILLI SCHAEFER
It slipped my mind how much I love these wines. Shame on me! When I first met them, and Willi himself, it was 1978 and Willi’s first...
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Terry Theise
Jan 12, 20222 min read
The Challenge Continues
It was another time when wines changed over the days, and so I found myself thinking – yet again – of the way we taste and the judgments...
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Terry Theise
Jan 6, 20221 min read
IT'S NICE TO HAVE WINNINGS.
While you all were doing whatever it is y’all do over the holidays, I was slaving, slaving I tell you, over a big assortment of samples...
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