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LINKED BY AFFECTION: REPORTS ON CHAMPAGNE GASTON CHIQUET AND WEINGUT SCHROECK UND SOEHNE
You will perhaps have read Heidi Schröck’s and my meet-cute story when I interviewed her a few months ago. Chiquet was the first...

Terry Theise
Jun 8, 20212 min read


CHAMPAGNE PIERRE GIMONNET et Fils BLOG INTRO
Terry samples Champagne Gimonnet et fils.

Terry Theise
Jun 1, 20212 min read


TWO, COUNT ‘EM, TWO NEW TASTING REPORTS!
I promised I’d go live as I finished the tastings, but from this point on things will decelerate, only because I have a week’s worth of...

Terry Theise
May 24, 20212 min read


LITTLE BLOG LINK: THE HITS KEEP ON COMING
Sorry for the clichéd headline. I’m still reeling from an actual headline I saw in this morning’s paper, that was so good I was scared to...

Terry Theise
May 20, 20211 min read


THE WORD-TO-THE-WINES INTERVIEW: DAVID SCHILDKNECHT
When I returned from ten years living in Germany, I settled in Washington DC, determined to get some sort of job – any sort of job – in...

Terry Theise
May 12, 202126 min read


Weingut Prieler.
I promised to go live with these as soon as they were finished, and here’s the next one. It’s rather crowding on the Glatzer, but I spend...

Terry Theise
Apr 29, 20212 min read


AND SO IT BEGINS
The first of the tasting reports is up, and another will follow before the week is out. Then there’ll be a pause as I wait for more...

Terry Theise
Apr 26, 20212 min read


TIRED OF TASTING NOTES? NOT SO FAST, TOUGH GUY.
Most people who read about wine choose to; they opt in, as it were, they enter the country-of-wine-writing. But some people encounter...

Terry Theise
Apr 9, 20213 min read


THE PETER LIEM INTERVIEW
When I first met Peter Liem, I had a lot more hair, and my beard was all pepper and no salt. He was a fairly obscure guy publishing a...

Terry Theise
Mar 29, 202121 min read


FLOWERS, NEEDLES AND BIRDS; THE JOURNAL OF A WEEK
It was one of those late winter days that felt good and looked awful. Light-jacket weather for my walk in the Forest Hills cemetery, but...

Terry Theise
Mar 17, 20215 min read
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