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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


WEINGUT JAKOB SCHNEIDER
One morning in May of 1978, I rang the bell at several wineries in Niederhausen, including this one. I was looking for wines from certain...

Terry Theise
Dec 20, 20213 min read


WEINGUT SETZER and WEINGUT BERGER
A twofer! What unites these two producers is they were (and maybe still are) fellow members in a grower group called “Vinovative,” and I...

Terry Theise
Dec 13, 20212 min read


Vortex in my Cortex!
I’ve just completed a massive report on the wines of Selbach-Oster and Merkelbach, which will run first on the World Of Fine Wines...

Terry Theise
Dec 7, 20211 min read


ENOUGH IS OENOUGH - ATTACK OF THE WINE PEOPLE!
Last week in between tryptophan stupors I did manage to taste through an inspiring group of samples from Eugen Müller, and that report is...

Terry Theise
Nov 30, 20215 min read
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