VILMART & CIE 2023
I sometimes wonder whether the accumulation of aesthetic memory turns eventually into a felt sense. I don’t know, but if it does it makes...
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Terry Theise
Mar 254 min read
BRAND NEW COLLECTION FROM SELBACH-OSTER
LANGUAGE POLICE AT IT AGAIN Political gadfly James Carville teaches at LSU, and on one celebratory occasion he decided to demonstrate for...
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Terry Theise
Mar 131 min read
WALTER (AND HANNAH) GLATZER
It’s hardly a surprise that I love these wines both subjectively and for very good reason. I like red wines that lead with fruit. They...
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Terry Theise
Mar 116 min read
A LIFE, A DEPARTURE, A FAMILY MINUS ONE
The Germans have a word – sympathisch – which doesn’t mean “sympathetic” but is one of those words that resists direct translation....
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Terry Theise
Mar 415 min read
A CHAT WITH AUTHOR KATIE GOMEZ
Katie was a wine pal of mine whom I kept in loose touch with. As it happens, wine is the thing she writes most soberly about. You’ll see...
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Terry Theise
Feb 261 min read
HARALD AND PETRA HEXAMER, Meddersheim, Nahe
The ‘22’ vintage wasn’t always kind to Riesling growers, among whom there were variations, not precisely in “quality” but rather in...
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Terry Theise
Feb 195 min read
NIKOLAIHOF: THE CURRENT COLLECTION
This will be the first time I’ve gotten to taste these wines at home, as a previous shipment was lost. Thus a little intro may be in...
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Terry Theise
Feb 121 min read
THE 2023 SAMPLES FROM ZIEREISEN
After the first run-through, an organizing theory offers itself. I may revise or update it, but as a vivid initial impression I think it...
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Terry Theise
Jan 313 min read
2022S FROM WILLI SCHAEFER
It’s a much more typical Schaefer vintage than 2021 was, though it’s fair to say that ’21 was atypical for most Mosel growers in various...
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Terry Theise
Jan 292 min read
VALERIE VARNIER’S LATEST COLLECTION
There were two issues with which to contend. One was the very fresh disgorgements, which distorts their shape and suppresses their fruit,...
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