2007 Zind-Humbrecht Gewurztraminer Clos Windsbuhl

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 92.8 points

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  5/28/2023 - Roland67 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Love this complexity of layer on layer of different floral and fruity sweet notes. Mature, but surely will have another decade or two. To me this is more a wine for sipping than it is a wine for food. 93+ P

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  4/5/2021 - NoahCap wrote:

  Incredibly intense and aromatic- everything you love about a well made Gewurztraminer and then some. This wine leans more towards the fruity/floral end than the spicy end, but it's all there. It wears the 14 years like a champ with fantastic complexity from age but retaining all the vigor of youth. This has not lost an ounce of energy. The concentration is just incredible, like drinking liquid gold!
  
  And yet....it is just too sweet to be a table wine. At least for me. I popped this open as a special occasion wine to accompany Easter dinner. My Easter dinner was NOT subtle; it was full of big flavors like a hunk of honey-baked ham, oven roasted potatoes, delicata squash. And still this wine just dominated everything. A small-med sized glass was all I could handle. This is my first Clos Windsbuhl, so maybe my expectations were a little out of line, but this wasn't really good for the dinner table, in my opinion. I would love to have this as a sipper at the end of a dinner, like a Sauternes or Tokaji. That would be beautiful- good thing there is plenty left!

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  3/20/2021 - beatles wrote: 93 Points

  Singing today with the cheese board extraordinaire in honor of the French son on in law, this has real depth, a lot of confit, somewhat fresher than the 2003 tasted jkust a couple of days ago, very fine acidity, citrus, good length. Revisited after 4 days in the cold, had not moved. No hurry to drink this.
  #AB&Guillaume

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  8/27/2020 - rwpalmer wrote: 94 Points

  Stunning. Fully evolved. Last reviewed 2017. On this occasion I found the richness of residual sugar more apparent but no less appealing.

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  2/1/2020 - moods wrote: 92 Points

  Still beautifully poised and with life ahead of it. Bags of spicy stone fruits. Tastes sweet on the initial attack, but finishes dry. Very long.

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