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2007 GERMANS FROM THEISE HAVE ARRIVED!

After months of anticipation, we’ve finally received our shipment of 2007 German wines from notorious wine importer and outsize personality Terry Theise. In the wine world, there are importers and then there are persons like Terry, whose zeal and manic obsession with the wines he sells pushes him into a category all unto himself. Reading about a topic such as German riesling vintages can easily veer sharply into dry, academic prose, yet Terry’s catalogs are by far the most entertaining literature that we receive here at the shop. Of course, talk is cheap, but fortunately, he also happens to represent some of the very best producers making wine in Germany today.

To say that Mr. Theise is passionate seems to be a bit of an understatement. It’s invigorating to find an importer who kicks off their portfolio with a written manifesto—unapologetic and sincere, seemingly as much concerned with a mission statement as with a business plan:

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.
Lots of wines, many of them good wines, let you taste the noise. But only the
best let you taste the silence.

Of course, he’s also quite the convincing salesman, too, and a few paragraphs into his catalog, you’re practically salivating over the thought of a chilled bottle of kabinett. If you’re at all interesting in riesling and you’ve got some time to spare, you should definitely check out Terry’s highly entertaining and informative catalog.

We’re very excited to be offering these wines from these top-tier producers for the first time at J. Emerson’s. If you’re a lover of white wines, don’t pass up a chance to try some of these offerings for yourself.

Here’s a sneak peak of some of the new arrivals (more information to come in the following weeks):

Donnhoff Riesling 2007 (Nahe) $24.95
Spreitzer Winkeler Jesuitengarten Riesling Spatlese 2007 (Rheingau) $38.95
Wagner-Stempel Riesling Trocken 2007 (Rheinhessen) $24.95
Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese 2007 (Mosel) $64.95
Muller-Catoir Haardt Riesling Kabinett Trocken 2007 (Pfalz) $36.95
Schlossgut Diel Dorsheim Burgberg Riesling Kabinett 2007 (Nahe) $39.95
Muller-Catoir “Breumel In Den Mauern” Grosses Gewachs Riesling 2007 (Pfalz) $89.95
Jakob Schneider Riesling Kabinett 2007 (Nahe) $18.95

November 25, 2008 9:00