Community Tasting Notes (29) Median Score: 92 points

  • Beautiful aromas of rose, lilac, white blossom immediately. Crisp golden color. One of the most enticing and wonderful smelling wines I have ever come across. Nice mouth feel and texture with a little viscosity, notes of apricot and pineapple and white blossom with just a tinge of minerality and salinity pulls it together and structures this wine quite nicely, and the sweetness is not saturating by any means. In an absolutely perfect place to drink I believe, will look for another bottle. Fantastic.

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  • Meh.

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  • Deep yellow color. Some sweetness but very nice acidity and even saltiness. Very good balance

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  • Deep gold. Intense and precise lychee, rose, preserved oranges, white flowers, nutty, oily texture. Dry, medium body, medium minus acidity, medium plus alcohol.

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  • full bodied, rich and intense, with a wonderful mouthfeel, honeyed fruit followed by spice and a longlasting deliciious finish. A great wine for gewurtz lovers. Drink now.

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  • Absolutely lovely Gewurztraminer! Still vibrant even after more than a decade. Beautiful golden yellow but not oxidized in the least. Nose is full of tropical fruit, lychee, and creamy note. Palate had great acidity but eased off from its youth I’m sure. Wonderful texture/mouthfeel. Very deep and unctuous. Long on the finish. Absolutely delicious. As an aside, we had this with lunch which had some spice to it and it was a perfect foil. Plenty of life left but so enjoyable now, I will have to try very hard to keep some.

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  • Monsieur Milet donated for our farewell Panetiere dinner last nite. Lovely wine! Generous nose of grapefruit, fragrant honeysuckle and flowers. There's a hint of sweetness, matched with a solid acidic core and good amount of minerality. Good fruit--peaches, apricots and definitive notes of kumquat. Long, pleasant finish. Delicious!

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  • Beautiful wine, but still a bit young. Hold for 3 more years.

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  • WHOA! This is SO aromatic, like drinking a glass of perfume (but in a good way)! Equal parts floral, fruity, and spicy. The flowers are fresh, sweet, and light; daffodils and geraniums rather than roses and potpourri. The fruits are tropical; grapefruit, lychee, mandarin oranges preserved in syrup. The spices are evident more on the palate than the nose; they are sweet baking spices like ginger and cinnamon that emerge on the finish. The flavor profile is that of typical Gewurtraminer, but the concentration and richness are turned up a notch above most of what is on the market. It is clear why Trimbach holds this wine up as its premier dry (sort of..) Gewurztraminer. It deserves its premier status! I wonder how this wine will age. It feels very young right now, despite its 10 years of age. The wine certainly will not spoil for at least another 10 years- but will time serve to enhance its enjoyability by adding layers of complexity or dull its still considerable vivacity by sacrificing freshness? Who knows! Also, beware its high alcohol of 14.5%- it hides it well!

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  • Cf. the CellarTracker Article link [lower lft] to get specific info for this vintage, including acclaim.

    N: Slightly closed; Flowers, grapefrt, & hints of spice, all nicely melded

    P: Med body; NICE, SWTISH frt beautifully counterbalanced by acidity (with hints of varietal bitterness), the entire pkg seeming to build into the LONG, TANGY/swt (60:40) finish with the very, VERY slight bitterness offering an interesting counterpoint. The balance of this is EXTRAORDINARY, though I did notice the var bitterness coming forward as it warmed. Once again went well with the night's cuisine, which was very similar to that of my 10/25/19 TN. My EXC-/EXC, & should continue providing pleasure into '23, probably longer. // Day 3: Aromatically, fragrant flowers slightly atop grapefrt with distinct spiciness. P has held nicely, working well with various leftovers. [As of mid Aug '20, wine-searcher still shows 4 sources @ $54-$56, + 2 distinctly higher outliers].

    Note: 1st tasted on 10/25/19.

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  • Nice wine with pudding

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  • Very nice floral nose, with a bit of lychee fruit as well but not as much as some gewurztraminers. Medium body and flavor. One of the more complex gewurztraminers I've had; flavors mirror the nose, with a bit of tannin and mild acid. Finish lingers a while.

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  • Cf. the CellarTracker Article link [lower lft] to get specific info for this vintage, including acclaim.

    N: GORGEOUS, but @ least SOMEWHAT tough to parse: Flowers (geraniums?) PROBABLY on top, with grapefrt, spice (ginger?), & poss some minerals?

    P: MF, poss Med, body; Very RNDISH entry with NICE, SWTISH frt off-set by acidity & varietal bitterness which fairly seamlessly transitions into a LONG, very, VERY slightly tangy finish with an ELEGANT bitter/swtness which, while intense, is so PERFECTLY *balanced* that neither the bitterness nor swtness seem out of place! IMPRESSIVELY done, & not even REMOTELY "tired", I can see our remaining bottle EASILY going through '23. My EXC+ (94,95/100 using that metric). Went VERY well with the ff'ing, most from Tip Top Meats (Carlsbad, CA): Andouille Sausage (spicy), Bratwurst, GR Veal Sausage, GR Potato Salad (*no* mayo), & Kraut with Cream & Creole Mustard! [As of late Nov '19, wine-searcher still shows several sources from $40-$57, + 1 outlier @ $95].

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  • Powerful gewurtz, not aged but could be a bit racier.

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  • Q2 - 2019 Tasting - Alsatian White Varieties from around the World (New York, NY): 8/17 wines tasted double blind. Gorgeous nose here - honeysuckle and white flowers in June - perfumed and lovely. On the palate this is balanced and feminine - dry with a hint of sweetness but plenty of acidity and minerality particularly on the finish. Interesting as this is the wine I brought having only tried a sip of this in the past ( I liked it then too). My favorite of the tasting with 3 pennies voted by me and 5 pennies by the group.

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  • Q2 2019 Tasting - Alsatian White Varietals (The Apt): Wine #8: Almost a touch salty right out of the gate which shifts to being a bit lightly sweet but also kindof sour. All of that sounds like it should be a wine that I'd like and yet something holds me back here. Perhaps that the sourness is a bit more pronounced and is sour more in that something is a touch off rather than sour in that tasting pure lemon juice. Not really the wine for me although it was pretty popular with the broader group. (5 pennies)

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  • Not as in-your-face as some Gewurz; hints of the trademark Turkish delight, but also tropical fruit and little hints of things like rubber and boot wax. Similar on palate, with bitter marmaladey finish. Delicious acidity makes you return for another sip.

    Tastes incredibly fresh for 8yo (and out of a 375ml too) and surely has at least a few years to go.

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  • Half bottle with cheese on Christmas Day.

    Supposedly one of the late harvest cuvees but being Trimbach it isn't sweet at all - maybe off dry, but with a luscious depth of fruit and long finish. I remember the 1983 vintage going on for years.....this one will probably do the same.

    Gorgeous wine, particularly with washed rind cheese.

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  • Named after a little plot of land. The guys who ruled Alsace were called the Seigneurs. And there are some ruins there, and this comes from a little plot of land right around that. Mostly south south eastern exposure. Sandstone ratio is higher than the limestone which gives super textbook Geuwrtz.

    Lychee, white flower, really great expression. Some RS in there but nowhere near as much as you might think. That is great Gewurtz. Great body but not overdone.

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  • Wine is clear, star bright, yellow-gold in appearance. Vibrant nose of peach, apricot, lychee, passionfruit. Wet slate undertone.

    Palate - wine is sound. Medium acidity. Not dry - residual sugar notable at the finish. Palate echoes nose with more of a citrus and honey emphasis. Clean finish, medium length.

    Man, I sure do like wines like this. I wish my wife liked them as much as I do because then I'd buy more of them. Guess I'll enjoy this one myself while she's on a business trip!!!

    EDIT a day later:
    Per my policy I don’t change scores after I write them because they’re supposed to capture a moment in time. But if I had to do it again I’d rate this lower. I think the wine is just too big. Too much fruit, too much alcohol (14.5%) and too much body. Something lighter and less concentrated would be less fatiguing to the palate.

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  • Two vineyards, not Grand Cru but should be Premier Cru. Named after the kings of the region. Fleshy and powerful. Massive stuff.

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  • "White wine is fucking awesome" (Chicago, IL): Served double blind. The nose here was exceedingly floral, and at first, I didn't pick up the lychee tone, so I thought it was some post-modern hipster stuff, thanks to all that floral hand lotion going on. Then I stuck my nose in the glass again and the telltale lychee showed up. You could guess this was gewurztraminer on the nose alone. The palate is racy and shows a lean minerality, which is all the more impressive given how terrible the grape generally is. That led me to the one producer of Alsatian wine that could manage that: Trimbach.

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  • Mostly Riesling Tasting at Domain Trimbach (Ribeauvillé, France): Deeper yellow. Delightfully spicy aromatics. Rich glycerin attack with moderate residual sugar and average acidity. Good soil on the finish. Softer and not as exciting as other vintages I've tried.

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  • Tartaric crystals on cork. Expressive and deep nose, Dry lychee fruit, alcohol, yellow honey suckle blossoms, rose pedals, yellow peach pits, hints of breadfruit and cinnamon. Palate has Good density and concentration, there is weight to this juice and creamy spicy Gewurtz/lychee fruit profile. Touches of saline and minerality in background. Dry profile with a lushness to the fruit. Spicy, herbaceousness on the finish. The 14.5% alcohol its noticeable and shows a touch hot. Enjoyed 45-55 on its own. Drink over the 5-6 years…Na zdrowie

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  • Light yellow robe; tropical pineapple nose, quite a lot of spice, touches of petrol. Nice, if a bit simple.

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  • Some older Aussies, and some others with friends (Chris and Renee's): You know how you taste wine on vacation and its great. Then you bring it home and it is not what you thought? Well, not here. We tasted this at Trimbach in early March. Opened this last night and it was as good as I remembered. Light golden in color. The nose is classic and gorgeous. Lychees with some minerals. On the palate, this has a slightly oily texture. Dry but ripe enough fruit. Citrus and minerals. Nice balance. Long finish. Served with an Alsatian Onion Tart, it was a great food match IMO.

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  • Tasting at Trimbach (Ribeauvillé, France): Medium yellow. Complex nose of restrained floral notes, lychee, and orange-very varietal but not overly perfumed. Biggest, roundest wine to this point. Rich, off dry entry followed by typical cyanic, slightly bitter finish. As usual, a beautifully balanced Gewurztraminer that still could use a few years in bottle.

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  • A visit to Maison Trimbach; 3/10/2017-3/11/2017 (Alsace, France): This is a new wine for me. The bottle we tried had been open for about 48 hours in the fridge so facotr that in. Slivery gold in color. The nose has slight lychee but for the most part I don't think I would ID this as Gewurz blind. It almost has a roasted vegetable quality that is very nice along with sea air. Very creamy texture. Nice acidity but very smooth. There is a bit of sweetness but less than the 14 Gewurz. Again on the palate, some lychee but just a different animal and hard for me to describe. Still, I bought a bottle to spend more time with this.

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  • Las uvas proceden de 2 parcelas diferentes. Un blanco perfumado, con notable finura, hay recuerdos a pétalos de rosa, a lichies, a especias exóticas... en boca entra goloso, hay cierta untuosidad, muy buena acidez, atractivos amargos, largo y con carácter.

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