A curious collection from Weingut Künstler
“Curious” only in the selection of wines, not in their quality. It appears to be a somewhat random group of wines I didn’t taste...
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Terry Theise
- Jan 20
- 2 min
Weingart 2021s
Sporting a truly lovely new label to boot. And it is a rare thing when I find a label change improves the appearance of a German wine...
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Terry Theise
- Jan 13
- 2 min
Weingut Hiedler, Kamptal
One must take care not to extrapolate grand generalities and lofty principles about a wine estate based on a single vintage, especially...
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Terry Theise
- Jan 6
- 5 min
Dr Buerklin-Wolf
In a few months it will have been 45 years since I first visited Bürklin-Wolf. Little wine-pilgrim me was duly drawn to their tasting...
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Terry Theise
- Dec 30, 2022
- 8 min
CHAMPAGNE RENE GEOFFROY – Aÿ
(Note: to go directly to the tasting report, please follow the Champagne bottle on the right.) APPRECIATIONS: I thought to close out this...
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Terry Theise
- Dec 16, 2022
- 2 min
WEINGUT DAUTEL, Bönnigheim, Württemberg
For the first wine among the Spätburgunders, my impressions diverged markedly according to the glass I used. One glass rendered the wine...
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Terry Theise
- Dec 15, 2022
- 1 min
Weingut NIGL, KREMSTAL, Austria
Here’s a quick report on the early-bottled ‘21s fro m Nigl. I don’t know if or when I’ll receive the top wines, but tasting these was a...
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Terry Theise
- Dec 2, 2022
- 2 min
Two new tasting reports
There’s a lot of talk about “balance” in these notes, which is because many of the wines were awkwardly balanced. This is different from...
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Terry Theise
- Nov 18, 2022
- 2 min
WEINGUT STEITZ, STEIN-BOCKENHEIM, Rheinhessen
I was interested. The young couple are members of Herkunft Rheinhessen, in which most of the cool young growers are included; they’re in...
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Terry Theise
- Nov 11, 2022
- 3 min
WEINGUT BRAUNEWELL, Selztal, Rheinhessen
If you’re in Germany prospecting, as I was a few years ago, there’s a good chance you end up in Rheinhessen – wondering why you didn’t...
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