Community Tasting Note
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Wineteacher Does not like this wine:
April 30, 2022 - This wine is cloudy. Very cloudy. The labels says something about minimal intervention and unfined and unfiltered. There are a lot of wines that are made unfined, unfiltered and with less intervention. But those wines are clear (by gravity over the bulk storage period) and good. This wine looks like a pink-ish peach juice (something you make Bellini with) and less clear than a German wheat beer. On the palate the wine is quite flat, uninteresting and without much of the charm of a dry Gewurztraminer, the best being of Alsace. A cloudy wine means it is full of suspended yeast cells. The yeast cells will breakdown and go through autolysis. This process will spoil the wine. At minimum, this wine needs to be stored in chilled condition to slow down the onset of the yeast breaking down and certainly not to be stored for long. A Alsatian dry Gewurztraminer is a great wine genre and will age gracefully for many years. It will also give you pleasure right now. This wine does neither. It is one of the most gimmicky bottles on the market today. Don’t touch it. Not worth your time or money. CellarTracker has a box to check when the wine is flawed. I did not check it because this wine isn’t flawed accidentally. It is flawed by intention which is even worse. I rarely write such a long review but this wine deserved it. I only tasted it because an unsuspecting friend follow the bad advice to buy this. I was unfortunately served. My host regretted serving it as he also firmly disliked it. Is it at least interesting? No. A bad wine isn’t interesting. It is just bad. This is just my opinion and I may be dead wrong but it is still my opinion.
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