2018 Domaine Ostertag Gewurztraminer Fronholz Vendanges Tardives

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  2/17/2024 - Buff Tannen, USXFel Presidente Likes this wine:

  Even during its introductory fleshy phase, there's sufficient salinity to keep one from feeling like an impetuous alcoholic douchebag, and on nights 2 & 3, swooning is the only appropriate overreaction. Apricots, floral both as taste and texture, and, if you poor man's decant the everliving F out of it, lychee
  Need to hide the remnant of this in a light fixture like Don Birnam to see how it evolves
  If you're a Bostonian Alsatiophile, Blanchards d'Allston has boxes of Boxler and Ostertag headed straight for the discount bins. This was $45 and East of Eden was 35; they also have 2018 Boland about 35, and Bal des Masques in the low 20s, for example
  
  Say, this 86 d'Yquem sounds intriguing, I wonder how much it Whoah, nevermind

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  8/5/2023 - Papies wrote: 94 Points

  Papies at 30 (The Waterside Inn): By the glass at The Waterside Inn.
  This was served with Yquem 1986 ( Papies 92) and frankly rose well above it. Impressively bright and even at this youthful stage complex and with a well balanced rich core. Floral and expressive and just excellent. 94

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  7/24/2022 - cos65 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Bright clear good and rather viscous in the glass
  Botrytis tinged lychee nose
  Quite viscous and sweet on the palate, ripe lychee and pineapple rose flavors with quite a bit of phenolic bitterness on the back end.
  This seems rather lacking in acidity leaving this quite fat and detracts a bit from an otherwise lovely wine.

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