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Terry Theise
Jun 14, 20223 min read
A GAME OF WACHAU-MOLE
The wines improved so much over 3-4 days that I almost went back and re-wrote my first notes. Almost. Ultimately I felt it made no sense...
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Terry Theise
May 31, 20229 min read
PART THREE
At Champagne Lallement, they were enjoying the robust business everyone was enjoying in Champagne. Their first-born, Victor, was grown up...
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Terry Theise
May 19, 202215 min read
PART TWO – A JOURNEY OF FRIENDSHIP AND RESPECT, PLUS HAULING MY BLOATED PALATE TO TASTE A FEW WINES…
First, a small note. These visit impressions will be out of sequence depending on whether I wrote notes directly into the computer – the...
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Terry Theise
May 9, 202211 min read
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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