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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by coremill on 10/12/2021 & rated 83 points: Interesting, but past it. Floral, spicy, and sweet on the nose, but turning flabby and hollow in the midpalate. (519 views) | | | Tasted by nubbin on 2/17/2014 & rated 96 points: Appearance: Clear, deep gold.
Nose: Clean, medium+ intensity, fully developed, flowers, light: lychee, apricot, spice, & slight petrol.
Palate: Off dry, medium- acidity, low alcohol, medium+ bodied, Medium+ intensity late summer flowers, mango, apricot, spice. Long finish. Outstanding, mature Gewurztraminer! Lovely.
At peak. Drink soon. (2727 views) | | | Tasted by avp on 9/17/2013: Honeyed nose with baked apple, cucumber peel, fresh herbs, floral notes and warm spices.
Nicely dried and balanced palate with rich and pure fruit expression of pear to greenish banana. Honey, spices and liquorice. Good length finish with a bitter bite.
Finely aged wine with still many years left. (2662 views) | | | Tasted by forceberry on 9/17/2013 & rated 96 points: The grapes are sourced from Grand Cru Osterberg. Recommended drinking window beginning after 10 years and capability to age for at least 20 years, so this wine should either be now at its peak or past it.
Developed golden yellow color, although still relatively thin and pale for a wine of this age. Super-expressive, rich and expansive nose with tremendous power; complex aromas of very sweet, lychee-driven aromatic fruit, roasted Moroccan spices, overripe pear, some honey, perfumed hints of wild flowers and a touch of apple jam. Alcohol shows very slightly. Although dry, the wine still shows an illusion of sweetness due to its full-bodied and soft body and concentrated, very ripe fruit - which gets heavily contrasted by the powerful, robust and somewhat bitter spiciness. There are intense flavors of lychee, yellow damson, smoke, honey, Asian spices, some bruised apple and even faint hints of leather. Although the initial attack is really concentrated and powerful, the wine still feels that it grows in power and intensity towards the aftertaste. The acidity is relatively low, especially taking the remarkably concentrated fruit into account, making the wine feel very full-bodied and rather oily. The finish is really powerful and complex, but unfortunately rather short, probably due to the relatively low acidity; there are flavors of exotic spices, smoke, some honeyed sweetness, a little wizened yellow fruit character and hints of alcohol.
Even though a bit modest in the acid department, this is still easily one of the most impressive dry Gewürztraminers I have ever tasted. The wine shows incredible depth, power and complexity, yet in a most tremendously balanced and elegant way. Although the wine is obviously quite mature, it doesn't feel at all tired - on the contrary, I can imagine this wine could actually develop further in a cellar. Drink or hold - both of these options will result in something amazing. (1692 views) | | | Tasted by chcook on 11/10/2012: This wine is in an amazing place right now. PNP. Color gold. Nose floral. Fruit still really rich and bordering on sweet but softening. Great structure. Finish lengthy. Lots of life ahead. Amazing match with butternut squash lasagna tonight. No rush on these. Wait for the perfect match. (2718 views) | | | Tasted by andrewstevenson.com on 11/28/2009 flawed bottle: Half bottles for Thai food offline (King's Heath, Birmingham): There's a bit of buttery, lychee gewurz nose here, but it's very muted and flat. Good balance on the palate, but it's flat and very ordinary feeling.
Returning to this bottle the next day, it was very clear that this bottle was corked, although it was far from obvious when first opened. (3678 views) | | | Tasted by subir on 5/13/2005 & rated 89 points: Translucent yellow color almost disappearing into the glass. Surprisingly fresh scent of peach and green apple. Light on the tongue, the taste was marred since the cork had a bit of mold. (3184 views) | | | Tasted by loriannkru on 3/7/2004: Andrea spotted this 14-year-old bottle at Total Wine. We drank it against the 1998 Ribeaupierre w/ Marlies, Jamie, Linda & Greg. The younger one had more fruit. Older had more concentrated flavors, tasted of age, and was phenomenal w/ Chinese food. (2249 views) |
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