2017 Paul Blanck Gewurztraminer

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91 points

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  1/26/2024 - XandersDad Likes this wine: 92 Points

  #DrainingVeritasWineRoom
  Wine 1
  
  Hard to overstate the impact @veritaswineroom made on my life. In many ways, it shaped everything that followed its 2008 opening. And here we are 15-short years later …
  
  But every life change requires a little help to move things along, and Veritas Wine Room has provided me with a “few” fun bottles of wine that will “help” me over the next few months … or years of my life!
  
  So here we go with Wine #1 of #drainingveritaswineroom … and what better wine to start with than the 2017 Domaine Paul Blanck Gewurztraminer made by one of my favorite human beings on Planet Earth, the #AlsatianShaman himself, Philippe Blanck? I spent a week in April of 2011 with Philippe and Brother Bradley in Alsace, and during the course of that week I fell more deeply in love with both Philippe and his family and the wines of Alsace than I ever would have imagined possible.
  
  This juice was a light golden color, with a soft, subtle nose (for a gewurz) of citrus and lychee, and a gently-perfumed floral note. The soft palate has a touch of spice and stone-fruit with a lingering sweetness.
  
  In its youth, Gewrurz is all about the ebullience - spicy, floral, incredibly aromatic, just intense in every way. This had all of those notes, but the 7-years of bottle age subdued them all, with the result being a softly sweet, interestingly complex, and eminently enjoyable wine.
  
  Great wine. Enjoyable to drink a 7-year old Gewurz that was showing some age, and it went beautifully with the Thai-inspired Ginger and Coconut Cream Pork Meatball soup I made!
  
  @domainepaulblanck @veritas_wine_tours

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  9/7/2020 - BB_RP wrote:

  Nicely balanced - good quality example ... sweet and floral

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  7/1/2020 - BB_RP wrote: 91 Points

  Delicious: light and fresh, but rounded and relatively sweet.

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