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2025 AUSTRIA NOTES
Went to Austria to see my friends. My friends make wine, as it happens, so I speed-tasted wines I’ll taste in greater depth when the...

Terry Theise
May 1234 min read
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2025: LATEST ARRIVALS FROM CHAMPAGNE GIMONNET
These were assembled and shipped in November ’24, so they ought to be current in the U.S. market, and I’d suppose even any subsequent...

Terry Theise
May 62 min read
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LATEST SAMPLES FROM BRAUNEWELL
And I hasten to add, from one of the very best of the young lions of Rheinhessen , an ambitious and serious grower who hasn’t lost sight...

Terry Theise
Apr 304 min read
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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
Apr 243 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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