Alsace and Barbecue with the “running” club (At home in leafy West London): 14.5% Deep colour - this is clearly a mature wine. On the nose, expressive, a lot of fruit there. On the palate - an intense hit of sweetness, followed by a marmalade bitterness. Not what I was expecting but a decent dessert wine. Went well with the ginger cake later on.
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Heavy oily nose packed with lychees & some pineapple Rich and very full attack. Luscious, oily texture. Full mature proper Alsace gewurztraminer. Bit short.
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1989 revisited offline (Hambleton Hall, Rutland): A deep tropical fruit nose with a bit of a cinammon backbone. Very balanced, and - notably so for a gewurztraminer - really quite classy feeling. It's very balanced in the mouth. Perfumed, but not excessively so. Very impressive. But it's a wine that very clearly works best drunk on its own - it would make a decent aperitif. It didn't work with any of the food that I tried it with, but was particularly disastrous with a foie gras parfait, which just killed it completely dead. I can't remember a wine which was so completely killed by a dish which you would expect to work well with it.
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Deep gold colour; perfumed nose that bursts out of the glass; hit with flavours of butterscotch, tropical fruits, marzipane; long finish, fantastic wine. You don't need anything with this, a dessert in itself. We had with strawberries, but would go equally well with a blue cheese. Should be good until 2020+
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4/1/2023 - lozatron Likes this wine:
Alsace and Barbecue with the “running” club (At home in leafy West London): 14.5% Deep colour - this is clearly a mature wine. On the nose, expressive, a lot of fruit there. On the palate - an intense hit of sweetness, followed by a marmalade bitterness. Not what I was expecting but a decent dessert wine. Went well with the ginger cake later on.
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10/21/2018 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 91 Points
Heavy oily nose packed with lychees & some pineapple
Rich and very full attack. Luscious, oily texture. Full mature proper Alsace gewurztraminer. Bit short.
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4/10/2012 - quagland wrote:
Dark in color. Cork soaked through to the foil.
Still a wonderful wine at age 23.
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10/16/2009 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 92 Points
1989 revisited offline (Hambleton Hall, Rutland): A deep tropical fruit nose with a bit of a cinammon backbone. Very balanced, and - notably so for a gewurztraminer - really quite classy feeling. It's very balanced in the mouth. Perfumed, but not excessively so. Very impressive.
But it's a wine that very clearly works best drunk on its own - it would make a decent aperitif.
It didn't work with any of the food that I tried it with, but was particularly disastrous with a foie gras parfait, which just killed it completely dead. I can't remember a wine which was so completely killed by a dish which you would expect to work well with it.
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8/17/2007 - nskelsey wrote: 95 Points
Deep gold colour; perfumed nose that bursts out of the glass; hit with flavours of butterscotch, tropical fruits, marzipane; long finish, fantastic wine. You don't need anything with this, a dessert in itself. We had with strawberries, but would go equally well with a blue cheese. Should be good until 2020+
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