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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,...
Terry Theise
Nov 20, 20241 min read
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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...
Terry Theise
Nov 18, 202415 min read
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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...
Terry Theise
Nov 15, 202422 min read
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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,...
Terry Theise
Nov 13, 202428 min read
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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...
Terry Theise
Nov 11, 20242 min read
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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...
Terry Theise
Oct 7, 20245 min read
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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...
Terry Theise
Sep 11, 20242 min read
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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...
Terry Theise
Aug 21, 20242 min read
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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...
Terry Theise
Aug 20, 20241 min read
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WHAT’S BREWING AT BRUNDLMAYER
It is always a pleasure to observe a winery that’s firing on all cylinders. Bründlmayer is cruising comfortably, and at lofty altitudes....
Terry Theise
Jul 31, 20241 min read
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