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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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Terry Theise
Dec 28, 20213 min read
CHAMPAGNE MARC HEBRART
For the final tasting report of 2021, I offer you an immersion into the celestial Champagnes of Marc Hébrart. A couple wines were...
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Terry Theise
Dec 20, 20213 min read
WEINGUT JAKOB SCHNEIDER
One morning in May of 1978, I rang the bell at several wineries in Niederhausen, including this one. I was looking for wines from certain...
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Terry Theise
Dec 13, 20212 min read
WEINGUT SETZER and WEINGUT BERGER
A twofer! What unites these two producers is they were (and maybe still are) fellow members in a grower group called “Vinovative,” and I...
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Terry Theise
Dec 7, 20211 min read
Vortex in my Cortex!
I’ve just completed a massive report on the wines of Selbach-Oster and Merkelbach, which will run first on the World Of Fine Wines...
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Terry Theise
Nov 30, 20215 min read
ENOUGH IS OENOUGH - ATTACK OF THE WINE PEOPLE!
Last week in between tryptophan stupors I did manage to taste through an inspiring group of samples from Eugen Müller, and that report is...
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Terry Theise
Nov 22, 20212 min read
TASTING REPORT A.J. ADAM, THEO MINGES – AND TOOTH AND CLAW REDUX
For Minges, it was steady as she goes except for one transporting Riesling under their rubric of “Froschkönig.” Theo’s high-voltage...
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Terry Theise
Nov 15, 20213 min read
CHAMPAGNE VILMART & CIE
I made my first visit to Vilmart’s charming half-timbered premises in 1996, having been steered there by the writings of two British...
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