<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Terry Theise]]></title><description><![CDATA[The web home of Terry Theise, world expert and guru on wine, in particular Austrian, and German wines and champagne.]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:25:11 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.terrytheise.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[VILMART &#38; CIE – THE LATEST]]></title><description><![CDATA[If the best idea is held in the tenderest hand, these Champagnes couldn’t possibly be more convincing.   I was reading a catalogue for a retreat center offering various wellness/vedic/meditation/spirituality stuff, and at the end they printed a letter from a “satisfied customer” that gave me a feeling adjacent to an ice cream headache. The luckless author of said document made reference to “walking mindfully” or some such thing. I was surprised, because I couldn’t fathom how one could walk in...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/vilmart-cie-the-latest</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0c614a60efaf29e32808e3</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 17:00:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_14f859a61e394fc49ac4b54045f26787~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AT LONG LAST SPREITZER!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andi means to send me samples; he’s just busy and forgets. So it’s been a few years, and because of that he sent me what amounts to (mostly) a vertical collection of his two GGs, rather than the current assortment in its entirety. It would be churlish to complain, but those are highly interesting wines I’ve sometimes found to be closer-in to the soul of the domain.   Should you be wondering, those wines include a Muschelkalk Trocken, an Oestricher Doosberg Scharfenstein (a cadaster parcel now...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/at-long-last-spreitzer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0ac0fd8ba6aec9a80f6a18</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 17:00:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_14cf55c5d8494b5d81837133ad993be1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[SCHUTZEN STRIKES! PRIELER’S LATEST]]></title><description><![CDATA[My immense regard for Prieler is surely no secret. This is a culling of recent bottlings, omitting the (often lovely) St. Laurent and the entry-level Pinot Blanc. If I knew the reasons for omitting them, I have forgotten.   Let the (abbreviated) games begin. This will be good.]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/schutzen-strikes-prieler-s-latest</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fe0bc44f7ebdc9f6aa6149</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:37:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_93bdc594f82d4d108008c93fa29a4764~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_474,h_247,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[BOTTLE BY BOTTLE, SIP BY SIP]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jancis Robinson published a piece in the Financial Times and enlarged upon it on her website, about the many vagaries of bottle variation. She (and the redoubtable Tamlyn Currin) cited the many external factors whereby bottles of the same wine might differ. Many of them would surprise you, unless you were in the wine trade or handled shipping logistics.   It needed saying, because wine reviewers are often taken to task for the divergences of praise (and ugh, “scores”) among different tasters...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/bottle-by-bottle-sip-by-sip</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fe0b285bf92805eb600470</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:00:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_f66a53a028054b0f839f6e7f5043cc32~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[2026 NEW ARRIVALS FROM ZIEREISEN]]></title><description><![CDATA[Firstly, a note that if you missed the previous two tastings from March '26, they can be found here: Dautel  and here: Glatzer . This might be a time to revisit my practice of always tasting a wine from at least two different glasses. I’d say that the wines are the same (or close enough) maybe a quarter of the time. That’s to say it didn’t matter which glass I used. The other 75% of the time there was a decisive difference, important enough to look for a through-line to try and see what the...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/2026-new-arrivals-from-ziereisen</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dd2e13798372f8ac839a0f</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:14:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_9a815006427f4ac1aead3555ea6e1b20~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A PINNACLE OF DELICIOUSNESS:  GLATZER’S 2025 COLLECTION]]></title><description><![CDATA[No one drinks wine any more. Fewer and fewer people drink alcohol of any kind, thanks to a WHO report that will be contradicted in five years by another WHO report. But we here are interested in wine.   Let’s leave aside the question of wine’s status as an “alcoholic beverage.” And then let’s admit that wine is singularly unattractive to anyone but we who’ve been bitten by the bug. Let’s further admit that wine is unattractive because we who are nuts about it are also unattractive. Not all of...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/a-pinnacle-of-deliciousness-glatzer-s-2025-collection</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c6880d60f0b8e11350743b</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_b63565008bfc4fe9a91af557ac78da4e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[CAN’T KEEP MY HANDS OFF DAUTEL]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m not that much of a weeper, though I don’t mind crying and I do it easily when it’s worth doing. I think of Roger Ebert’s line about crying at the movies: we don’t cry from sadness, we cry from goodness. That is true for me. But I’ll go weeks without tears and then I have a couple soggy days in a row. As happened recently.   I have a folder of bookmarks of musical performances, and I was thumbing through it when I had one of those time units where I couldn’t start something but I could...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/can-t-keep-my-hands-off-dautel</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b3ed02f897a5d712611d9c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:00:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_d6a439c93895477eb5ce191bc132cc83~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HIEDLER’S 2025 COLLECTION]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ludwig “Senior” appears to have actually retired. He came back to the winery after a lengthy absence to say hi to me, I was told. This isn’t common; often the elders stick around, if only to ensure the kids aren’t getting up to any mischief. But my old friend Ludwig is off to the rest of his life, leaving the estate in the able hands of his sons.   In a fundamental way, Hiedlers will always be Hiedlers. Their website is eloquent on that score. The question I find myself asking is, will...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/hiedler-s-2025-collection</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a58e957db715abddf6900c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:00:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_6d35a6d90634472e8a39b637b45992a3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_750,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE LORD OF LANGENLOIS IN 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before we consider the delicious doings at Bründlmayer , a small bit of news. Joshua Dunning has written an excellent article on the history of sugar in Champagne; not only dosage, but the evolution of tastes among Champagne’s customers, and how it seems to have landed on a creed whereby any residual sugar is held in the deepest suspicion. Mr. Dunning’s piece is here: https://wordonthegrapevine.co.uk/dosage-champagne/   I’m quoted, as you’ll see, which is hardly surprising as I’m a...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/the-lord-of-langenlois-in-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698c8e8cd9c323c10df5d066</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:43:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_e89084aeff8744f89b6cd64bf3cfc068~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_527,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ROCKIN’ WITH SCHROECK ‘N SONS]]></title><description><![CDATA[These days I’m preoccupied with trying to do what one puny guy can do to make wine less forbidding so that we can slow down (or even stop) the attrition of drinkers. A dialogue I had with my friend Meg Maker was published in the latest World Of Fine Wine and seemed to tickle some vagus nerve of the zeitgeist, and even engendered a bit of snark from some chap whose piece circled the drain while missing the points that Meg and I were addressing. But most of the subsequent online conversation...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/rockin-with-schroeck-n-sons</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69734d724c5d7ca6b9ba35ed</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:00:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_18df1e2f98fc422f90121ad84fc9153e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_537,h_672,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOBELSBURG UP TO DATE!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I know I report on these quite regularly.  That’s because the estate is remarkably interesting and consequential, and because they are very good about sending me samples. With this collection I’m unusually timely, as the Crus on the market are (still) the 2023s, and all the other wines were current when I visited them last April.   There are two more reasons for paying this degree of attention. One is, even with a winery as reliable as this one, the occasional flub sneaks through, e.g., the...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/gobelsburg-up-to-date</link><guid isPermaLink="false">695d4ae6893b8ca0edfce60f</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:00:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_f7f40a4f231147debc10df9f458ca743~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_330,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[NOTES ON HANS-GUNTER SCHWARZ]]></title><description><![CDATA[“HGS” as he was known to most of us, succumbed at last to the various maladies that had dimmed his aura in recent years.   He will – already has, when he turned 80 – receive a clamor of encomia both for the impact he had on viticulture and for the gentle soul he was personally. I paid tribute to him when he “retired” from Müller-Catoir back in July 2002. You can find it on this website by looking under “portfolio” and then downloading my 2003 Germany catalog. There aren’t many people in the...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/notes-on-hans-gunter-schwarz</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69482751cd28170851f4b44d</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:00:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_a9e636e5df7242db9f438d5c39644881~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[2024 MERKELBACH – THE VINTAGE]]></title><description><![CDATA[As you know, Selbachs make the wines now, following the passings of the Merkelbach brothers. Rolf and Alfred’s methods are being followed, in order to preserve their Edenic style, their lightness, and their freedom from affect.   What I don’t know is whether the old viticulture is being continued, including harvesting dates and methods. I trust it is being followed at least in spirit, because a precise facsimile seems impossible. Given that most of the vines grow in the classic single-stake...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/2024-merkelbach-the-vintage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6932fc1921dbaf583f85f988</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:00:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_fe4ab96953904dbe84a995a7f40ce950~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE SUMMER FLUSH: DARJEELING IN 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[[Editor's note: Find all of Terry's Tea Thoughts here. ] Don’t expect the explicit muscatel “attack” we had with the 2024s. I liked that, it was fun, but at times it was so uniform it felt like it was grafted on. Still, the few ’24 teas I have left are a reminder of why the term “muscatel” exists at all; the teas can be overtly grapey. I noticed its absence when the first ‘25 teas arrived, and thought it might be a problem, but these teas have deeper and more inscrutable tricks up their...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/the-summer-flush-darjeeling-in-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6932b4bd479d818f7a3e0772</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:00:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_31033900808a4c5e9b598ca3f33f31a9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[RANDOM RANTS - SPAIN]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have to say Spain was great except for when I got locked into a public toilet in San Sebastián and the police had to be called to spring me loose. It began innocently enough; Karen had used the thing and held the door open for me to follow, but as I was standing over the bowl and starting to whizz I was suddenly sprayed with a cleaning material from nozzles in the ceiling, so I jumped back and had a moment of “WTF” and then the floor nozzles opened up and sprayed my shoes, at which point I...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/random-rants-spain</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690b48edaa0a315edf6c9747</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:00:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_a5f7cb6d7af14402a756b7b997140cae~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_643,h_317,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEW DAYS AT NIKOLAIHOF – THE 2025 GROUP]]></title><description><![CDATA[Of course, it being Nikolaihof there will be a panoply of vintages, many of them old or at least mature. This was the best culling among the wines  I tasted at the estate five months ago, as this is an estate where gazing forward makes more sense than looking backward. That is, for the wines as such. The estate retains its dignity and gravitas, but in recent years some wines slipped out of the cradle, and one never knew how things would be. This problem is most of the way to being solved...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/new-days-at-nikolaihof-the-2025-group</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690b3e8196a2942ab278b6e0</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:00:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_66b1a03069254954a60ce496e3b5cc9e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_400,h_267,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE FEW, THE PROUD: 2023s FROM WILLI SCHAEFER]]></title><description><![CDATA[They are scant in number, and Christoph seemed apologetic at the paucity of high-Prädikat wines.   By now the entire 2024 vintage from Schaefer is on the market, so I know I am out-of-date, but I felt it best to wait – these are the last samples  from the bunch I received many months ago – in order to give the wines a chance to calm down. I have come to a wariness with 2023, both in Germany and Austria, and often find it a troubled vintage whose nature can be exacerbated by  growers who make...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/the-few-the-proud-2023s-from-willi-schaefer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ecdd1e0fb1c8ee6e9eea5c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:00:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_742cdb17e5514d038b1c7975bb9bd0f8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_583,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[SPECIAL SALE ON OPINIONS: BUY TWO, GET FORTY SEVEN FREE!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[As you may have gleaned, I’m a guy with views. Some of them are irritable, others are approving. A few are both.   Here’s an example....]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/special-sale-on-opinions-buy-two-get-forty-seven-free</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ec9dc2d1548e3b8baa9864</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:00:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_f87abdf9367d4da887213590e32bb821~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_690,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AT LAST! SAMPLES FROM KRUGER-RUMPF]]></title><description><![CDATA[“At last,” because I haven’t been able to taste these properly (at home) since I started these tastings in 2021. I did speed-taste twice...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/at-last-samples-from-kruger-rumpf</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68d3f4f26c6ddbbecd21d3a9</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:01:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_c72030546c8f4637ae36c9adb3e8532b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_338,h_506,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[“NEW” RELEASES FROM CANTZHEIM]]></title><description><![CDATA[At last I’m able to help out a seriously worthy grower commercially, apart from my evangelizing on their behalf. The lovely Pinot Noirs...]]></description><link>https://www.terrytheise.com/post/new-releases-from-cantzheim</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68b549311d66bce9aaa04142</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:00:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d8e337_8adb634e867a4232afd34c6f196b9b45~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_884,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Terry Theise</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>