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theise manifesto Beauty is more important than impact. Harmony is more important than intensity. The whole of any wine must always be more than the sum of its parts. Distinctiveness is more important than conventional prettiness. Soul is more important than anything, and soul is expressed as a trinity of family, soil and artisanality. i
Page 1: terry theise estate selections Impo
Page 5 and 6: “This thing we tell of can never
Page 7 and 8: A Primer on Terroir . . . . . . . .
Page 9 and 10: I felt like Charlemagne. That’s b
Page 11 and 12: find it becomes more vivid now, and
Page 13 and 14: emember, not ALL wine fulfills such
Page 15 and 16: approaching cold front” (I no lon
Page 17 and 18: if the rocks were literally pulveri
Page 19 and 20: age-old tussle over terroir. You ca
Page 21 and 22: Gray-Marketers: Consumer-Champions
Page 23 and 24: a new way to measure sweetness Ther
Page 25 and 26: again,” he’ll write. “But spa
Page 27 and 28: did he have any dosage in the winer
Page 29 and 30: An Essay On Tasting Blind Kermit Ly
Page 31 and 32: down the road. From what I tasted;
Page 33 and 34: 2003 I doubt if I tasted more than
Page 35 and 36: Don’t misunderstand; there’s no
Page 37 and 38: What is a Palate? A palate is two t
Page 39 and 40: Here are my rules-of-thumb, with al
Page 41 and 42: GLOSSARY OECHSLE: A scale by which
Page 43 and 44: pulled up. After the new roads are
Page 45 and 46: SOMMELIER ALERT! I’m highlighting
Page 47 and 48: GMA-064 2004 Mathern Niederhäuser
Page 49 and 50: mosel-saar-ruwer The green bottles.
Page 51 and 52: mosel regionals Mosel wine is one o
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selbach-oster mosel • zeltingen W
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In the years that followed I have t
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GSO-264 2005 Zeltinger Himmelreich
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THE AUSLESEN GSO-275 2005 Bernkaste
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erich jakoby-mathy mosel • kinhei
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meulenhof / erben justen ehlen mose
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GJU-090 2005 Erdener Treppchen Ries
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KINHEIMER ROSENBERG: this vineyard
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why fuss about “connections”? I
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impression of remarkable depth and
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heribert kerpen mosel • wehlen Ev
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willi schaefer mosel • graach I h
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GWS-134 2005 Graacher Domprobst Rie
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the Dhronhofberger Tholey, with its
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GAD-010 2003 Dhronhofberger Sänger
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I had a moment during the conversat
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Wonderful new discovery making fine
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Mid-sized Mosel estate making old-s
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from six grape-growing regions. The
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lowed, and gave the wines their ver
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This was a SLEEPER agency, an unsun
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His wines from the Lorenzhöfer hil
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ized, is entitled at least to know
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florian weingart mittelrhein • bo
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toni jost mittelrhein • bacharach
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SOS a new way to measure sweetness
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gang! We got to the end of the 100-
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It’s best if I don’t think abou
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wines are different texturally, and
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GDH-180 2005 Niederhäuser Hermanns
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A Look At The Vineyards: NIEDERHÄU
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I would ask the pragmatists to cons
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seems to have been born unable to s
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weingut hexamer nahe • meddershei
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GHX-030 2005 Meddersheimer Rheingra
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Up-and-comer the past few years, ma
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schlossgut diel nahe • burg layen
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DRY RIESLINGS: GSD-029 2005 Rieslin
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heinhessen wines A few of you may r
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Many of the hippies of the sixties
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GST-126L 2005 Niersteiner Riesling
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take me to your liter This is a sch
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least of which is having a baby on
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POINTS: what’s the point? I had a
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when the wine was outstanding I tho
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These are the south-facing slopes o
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Though I went at first looking for
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special offering on half-bottles I
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Berg Roseneck greed must surely die
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practices what he preaches, which t
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GJL-118 2005 Rüdesheimer Berg Rose
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spreitzer rheingau • oestrich Whe
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GSP-036 2005 Hattenheimer Wisselbru
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the presence of spirit-of-place, th
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A few years ago the Germans had the
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a Trocken fusspot. Ah NO: the Catoi
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RIESLANER, THE RIESLING-VIAGRA Ries
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Biffar. The Pfalz is terribly activ
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dr. deinhard pfalz • deidesheim S
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GDD-023 2005 Ruppertsberger Reiterp
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This is a winery on the move, and t
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herbert messmer pfalz • burrweile
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GMS-113 2005 Muskateller Kabinett +
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Theo Minges was “thrown in the co
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koehler-ruprecht pfalz • kallstad
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GKR-090 2005 Kallstadter Steinacker
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darting at a glance: reductively br
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As a junior in high school I took h
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