2007 Andrew Rich Gewürztraminer

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 90.2 points

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  10/3/2010 - ronco wrote: 90 Points

  Medium golden colour, nose of subdued tropical fruit, apricots, and light honey, and palate of medium viscosity. Really liked this one last night for dessert and would gladly drink more. Nowhere on the label or the winemakers website does it claim to be an ice wine. It does say it's made from frozen grapes - would guess they pick, freeze, crush. Don't know enough about science in how different it would be from freezing on the vine, but what I do know is this was very nice to drink and at a great price. Residual sugar of 16%.

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  4/22/2010 - Vino_Divine wrote: 85 Points

  Ice-Wine my ass. This wine was made from juice that was frozen in a commercial freezer the separated from the ice ( A technique pioneered by Randall Graham of Bonny Doon). Frozen wine, maybe; Vin de Glacier, O.K.; but icewine or eiswein is a Pradikat in German wine and calling these freezer wines "Ice-Wine" really cheapens the outrageously good and incredibly difficult to produce German, Austrian and Canadian wines that legitimately have the right to call themselves Ice-Wine or eiswein. That said, the wine is pretty good. Aromas are intense and floral with lily, lychee, quince, and blood orange. Flavors are very sweet and broad, with notes of apple and lychee. Nice acidity keeps this phoney "ice-wine" wannabe in check. Do your self a favor and compare this to Hexamer's Eiswein and see what I mean about the phoney part.

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  9/21/2009 - Omar Khayyam wrote: 91 Points

  Harvest moon over Willamette Valley; 9/20/2009-9/25/2009 (Willamette Valley, various wineries): honey, muscat grape, rose water candy. 2/3 of the fruit is from Washington State, 1/3 from Oregon. Late harvest, frozen and pressed. Still the best dessert wine I've encountered in Oregon.

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