2014 Hart Wine Cellar Gewürztraminer (noncommercial)

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 92 points

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  1/30/2016 - sweetstuff wrote: 92 Points

  Commercial fruit from the Niagara River, Ontario region, 0.9% residual sugar and 11.5% abv. Very high quality cork, a bit pushed and a bit splintered by the cork insertion device, but no problem, removed with the two-stage Durand cleanly. Tasted from a Riedel Riesling/Zin
  
  Shows a burnished light bronze; at first glass-coating, but five minutes or so later very reluctant tearing; slight, fine tartrates with probably some fruit debris showing it's unfiltered.
  
  Light floral rose impressions, walnut oil, breathing some minerals' adding a hint of somewhat neutral bacon fat.
  
  A medium dry, precise entry, with just a hint of red berries, but a gentle nuttiness ranging from almond to pecan. A nicely judged acid balance and savory finish, tossing in a hint of umami, very unusual in a non-late-harvest wine of this variety. Noticeable finesse and a delicate transparency, but this wine just keeps getting more luscious. I mean in a good sense--it's impeccably balanced to dryness.
  
  As we go along for the next half hour to hours, we're adding hints of lemon or orange flower in the nose. A change of glasses to the Impitoyable brings out a fermentation odor still in the nose, a pleasant sourness. Of course this picks the wine apart and shows your the chassis: more grass and fern in the mid-nose. Shows notes of broad pork fat. The fermentation thing dances on top of the spicy fruit. Now there's some almond, now some quinine scent, and even peach. Now a sauvignon blanc-like grassiness, but very gentle.
  
  This wine has a quality that I admire--it scintillates-flashes from one impression to another, very rapidly. A most pleasant tasting experience. Also, it builds a cumulatively very mouth-filling, savory, clean finish. Incredible length for type.
  
  92/100 first day.
  
  Next day: addition of an orangewood note to the nose, plus a highly harmonized version of the above. The palate is recogizable from the first day, but there is a definite quinine note and a pickup of energy on the back end that is a change, and a tailing into citrus with a hint of sweetness. This wine will be best consumed in the first 2 to 3 years of its life.

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