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IT ISN’T POLITE TO POINT!
You must have seen that funny piece that came through the transom (via three different senders; the thing was everywhere) about “The...

Terry Theise
Apr 19, 20227 min read


SEWING WILD HAUTES; IN PRAISE OF “FANCY” FOOD
Some friends recently described their opinions on restaurant food, and while they had strong views, those views were deeply earned by...

Terry Theise
Apr 4, 20226 min read


Tasty/Drinky/Drinky/Tasty
You’ll have noticed, if your life is so drab and wretched that you’ve had time to read my previous posts, that I talk about the...

Terry Theise
Mar 22, 20222 min read


2020 GERMAN RIESLINGS
You know the blues classic “Rolling And Tumbling?” The sub-headline for the 2020 vintage could very well read, Soaring And Plummeting....

Terry Theise
Mar 10, 20227 min read


Selbach-Oster & Merkelbach
I’ll keep this brief, as the tasting report is running to nearly 13,000 words. It was always an all-day task, tasting the new vintage at...

Terry Theise
Feb 23, 20221 min read


Can’t stop thinking of Cantzheim
Full disclosure; I have a small-scaled but very sweet commercial relationship with this estate, whereby I broker them to a couple old...

Terry Theise
Feb 14, 20222 min read


WEINGUT WILLI SCHAEFER
It slipped my mind how much I love these wines. Shame on me! When I first met them, and Willi himself, it was 1978 and Willi’s first...

Terry Theise
Jan 25, 20222 min read


The Challenge Continues
It was another time when wines changed over the days, and so I found myself thinking – yet again – of the way we taste and the judgments...

Terry Theise
Jan 12, 20222 min read


IT'S NICE TO HAVE WINNINGS.
While you all were doing whatever it is y’all do over the holidays, I was slaving, slaving I tell you, over a big assortment of samples...

Terry Theise
Jan 6, 20221 min read


CHAMPAGNE MARC HEBRART
For the final tasting report of 2021, I offer you an immersion into the celestial Champagnes of Marc Hébrart. A couple wines were...

Terry Theise
Dec 28, 20213 min read
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