Community Tasting Notes 9

• willschenk Likes this wine: 94 points

  March 26, 2021 - This is extremely high-quality gewurz, and could easily pass for a GC Alsatian example. At 16 years of age, it’s still fresh on the palate, growing fresher with air. The terpene profile is extremely strong, with scents of marijuana and overripe peach yielding to smoke, pineapple, yellow plum, and crystallized ginger. The age shows just a bit with a little kerosene and tobacco. Finish is long and the acidity is still bright. Guessing 6-8 g/L of RS. Probably around peak, but try it if you can find it.

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• goodvitis.com Likes this wine: 94 points

  November 13, 2020 - The nose is both fresh and suggesting good age, with aromas of pineapple, tangerine, slate, honeysuckle, Spanish almond and petrol. Medium bodied with beautiful acid that starts creamy but quickly develops tension and structure. The flavor profile includes peach, tangerine, quince, orchid, rose petal and raspberry. This is brilliant wine wearing its age quite beautifully. I do sense it’s headed in the wrong direction balance-wise because it has a slightly bitter finish, so I wouldn’t sit long on this at all.

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• Delectable Blue Likes this wine: 97 points

  July 17, 2017 - Welcome to my new obsession - Gewurztraminer. Unfortunately they are somewhat rare in Australia.
  
  Sometimes, ever so rarely, all the planets align and you strike the most remarkable of wines, most unexpectedly. This unassuming bottle was bought at auction for $5 a bottle, and oh my, what a fabulous aged gewurz it is. There are kerosene notes mingling with vibrant fruit on the nose. The wine is bright golden in colour. The fruit are ripe and lively and dance across the palate with an intensity that makes it taste like a late harvest. The palate is awash with honeyed lychee, peach and apricot and subtle pineapple flavours, and there is still enough acidity and minerality present to provide great support. There is a very light spiciness to the mid-palate, ahead of a clean and lengthy finish. Gloriously perfect - the best white wine I have tasted in years.
  
  This wine is right at the peak of it’s secondary development. I might hold back a couple of bottles to see how they develop when they hit the tertiary development stage.

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• isaacjamesbaker wrote: 90 points

  August 27, 2014 - Still rocking, and still young, this wine continues to impress me. Love the racy acid, the bone dry crispness and the flavors. Candied lemon peel, tons of minerals and sea salt, perhaps some more marmalade and dried honey with more age. My last bottle, but I wish I had more. Is it just me, or does Tasmania slay with crisp whites? My sister Priscilla loved this.

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• isaacjamesbaker wrote: 90 points

  February 23, 2013 - A Rainy Saturday (Weygandt Wines - Washington, D.C.): Great combination of dried pineapple, lychee, lamp oil, white pepper and minerals on the nose. Amazing complexity on the nose. Palate shows crisp acid. Fresh pineapple and white peach fruit, rush of minerals, cucumber water, candied lemon, gummy bears. Dry as a bone, full of minerals, racy acid, but a lot of great creamy aspects. Really nice sea salt and crushed chalk aspect lingers on the finish.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type White
• Producer Spring Vale
• Varietal Gewürztraminer
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region Tasmania
• SubRegion Freycinet Coast
• Appellation n/a

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• Pending Delivery 1 (5%)
• In Cellars 4 (20%)
• Consumed 15 (75%)

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