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THEO MINGES: A SURVEY OF CURRENT OFFERINGS
It’s an especially cruel irony that just as Minges is really reaching cruising altitude across their (ample) range, they’re without a...

Terry Theise
1 day ago3 min read
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LOEWEN – THE 2023s
I missed receiving the excellent Pinot Blanc, assuming the “other” Kabinett was sent in its place . To set the stage, a careful reader...

Terry Theise
Apr 71 min read
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MUELLER-CATOIR CURRENT RELEASES
“Current” at least as best I can obtain them given the highly inefficient system whereby they reach me. But…. <sigh>…. at least they do,...

Terry Theise
Apr 21 min read
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RACY WINES IN A RACY VINTAGE; NEW RELEASES FROM HEXAMER
These “showed” quite well when I speed-tasted them at the winery last October, much to my delight and somewhat to my surprise. Why...

Terry Theise
Mar 311 min read
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2025 MOSEL MARATHON, SELBACH, ETC.
Between Selbach-Oster and Merkelbach, it’s thirty seven wines . I’ma be busy for a while…. One thing is important to note. Selbachs are...

Terry Theise
Mar 254 min read
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AN OVERDUE CHALLENGE TO ORGANIC/BIODYNAMIC PRODUCERS
Any farmer or vintner will tell you; the transition from conventional growing to organic/biodynamic is labor-intensive, expensive, and...

Terry Theise
Mar 124 min read
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A NEW HODGE-PODGE FROM KUENSTLER
Once again, tasting these (especially the whites) I was impaled on the sharp edge of an issue I can’t seem to escape, and that is the...

Terry Theise
Mar 102 min read
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AT LAST! NEW SAMPLES FROM NIGL
One case was sent to Texas by mistake and I never did receive it. The next case had just six bottles. I did taste at the winery in 2023 –...

Terry Theise
Feb 243 min read
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THE LATEST COLLECTION FROM ZIEREISEN
Boy, have I lived with these wines. It’s 13 days since I started tasting them, and in that time we have drunk almost nothing else (other...

Terry Theise
Feb 41 min read
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WEINGUT PRIELER 2025
One of my favorite growers (and people) whom I have watched, happily, as he emerged from his tentative beginnings and arrived at a place...

Terry Theise
Jan 213 min read
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