Can Spätlese Be Saved?

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Terry Theise

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Not long ago, in my merchant days, I scored a few cases of mature Mosel wines from a grower I didn’t know. It wasn’t much wine, the prices were attractive, and I was able to eke out a few bottles for my cellar, which can never have too many ready-to-drink Rieslings. They were 1982s and 1985s. I had a wine friend over and opened one of the bottles to begin the evening’s festivities. “Oh I do like old Riesling,” my friend said, “And isn’t it amazing how well even a Kabinett can age?” “It is indeed,” I said. “But this isn’t a…

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After several decades as a wine merchant, Theise has returned to his first love, writing, and to contemplating how a poorly educated oaf with no personal graces could have achieved even the meager level of success he managed to attain. Find his latest work terrytheise.com

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