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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


THE LANGUAGE OF TASTING
There’s a famous saying in Zen studies (so famous that even I know it; I do not study Zen) that to hit the target you don’t aim for the...

Terry Theise
Mar 8, 20216 min read


GO ON, USE ME
The first samples – mostly Austrians and Champagnes – will start reaching me in a month or so. Tasting will begin toot sweet. The ol’...

Terry Theise
Feb 26, 20218 min read


ARE “IMPORTERS” AN ENDANGERED SPEICES?
Some would have you believe it. Once upon a time, not so long ago, a curious type of American wine merchant evolved. Back then there were...

Terry Theise
Feb 16, 20216 min read


LOOKING AND SEEING ARE NOT THE SAME
(Two views of Tintin and Snowy) (A book you should know about) (Preview of exciting things to come) I have a picture of Tintin and his...

Terry Theise
Feb 4, 20214 min read


SAM DAVIES IS STILL AN INTERESTING MAN
We stayed in touch after I published our first conversation back in July. Every now and again one of us finds something he knows the...

Terry Theise
Jan 25, 202112 min read
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