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Until yesterday I didn’t know that glowing wombats were a thing, but I read about them in the Times, so I guess they must be. I wish I’d...
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Terry Theise
- Dec 14, 2020
- 5 min
THOUGHTS ABOUT “FLAWED” WINE
My first thought is this. When we talk about “flawed wine” we are often not talking about flawed wine; we are talking about ourselves....
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Terry Theise
- Dec 7, 2020
- 7 min
DARJEELING REVISITED: THE BEST TEAS OF THE 2020 SUMMER SEASON
Please understand; clearly these are the best teas among those I obtained. I didn’t taste everything, and there are merchants from whom I...
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Terry Theise
- Nov 30, 2020
- 16 min
Kindred Spirit
It was either an article about the Pfalz which included Müller-Catoir, or it was an article exclusively about Catoir, but in either case...
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Terry Theise
- Nov 16, 2020
- 4 min
A CONNOISSEUR OF RELIEF
It is my favorite part of music, known as the diminuendo, the quieting down after a loud passage. I like the thundery stuff as much as...
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Terry Theise
- Nov 5, 2020
- 8 min
WINE; I MEAN, WTF??!
My old friend Joe Appel is examining the difference between having “something to say” versus copy to produce. He’s one of the few who...
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Terry Theise
- Oct 26, 2020
- 10 min
PLAY NICE BOYS AND GIRLS
Last week I posted a kind of symposium on the subject of “masculine” and “feminine” as wine descriptors. My thoughts continue to circle...
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Terry Theise
- Oct 19, 2020
- 15 min
GENDER-IMAGE WINE DESCRIPTORS: HAVE THEY OUTLIVED THEIR USEFULNESS?
And, were they ever really useful? A lot of people think not, and prominent among them is Ms. Vicki Denig, who wrote a strongly argued...
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Terry Theise
- Oct 8, 2020
- 9 min
FUNNY SMELLING WINE REDUX
A little coda to my earlier blog piece, in which I wondered whether the immediate access to universal information might be crippling to...
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Terry Theise
- Oct 1, 2020
- 5 min
IN PRAISE OF DIFFICULT WINES
In wine, I have often extolled the virtues of charm and deliciousness. We don’t pay enough attention to those virtues. “Charm” I suspect...
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