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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


TASTING REPORT A.J. ADAM, THEO MINGES – AND TOOTH AND CLAW REDUX
For Minges, it was steady as she goes except for one transporting Riesling under their rubric of “Froschkönig.” Theo’s high-voltage...

Terry Theise
Nov 22, 20212 min read


CHAMPAGNE VILMART & CIE
I made my first visit to Vilmart’s charming half-timbered premises in 1996, having been steered there by the writings of two British...

Terry Theise
Nov 15, 20213 min read


SLOW WORK TAKES TIME
Two new reports up this week, and possibly a third – Vilmart! - depending on how many days I need to taste them. I feel a little sheepish...

Terry Theise
Nov 9, 20212 min read


IN PRAISE OF COMMERCIALISM
\ [Two new tasting notes are up, Weingut Darting and Weingut Braunewell.] My growers would tour from city to city throughout the States,...

Terry Theise
Nov 1, 20215 min read
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