Community Tasting Notes 20

• prof b wrote: 93 points

  December 9, 2018 - Salil, Paul, and Mark at my new house: A tremendous wine that performed like the last bottle promised but fell short of. This bottle had mild sweetness combined with white fruits, especially apricot and a pleasantly long finish.

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• salil wrote: 94 points

  December 8, 2018 - My last bottle of this was a disappointment, but this was spectacular. It takes some time to fully open out - there's a bit of odd funk on the nose at first, but with air it clears and the classic Gewurz aromas build; rosewater and other bright floral scents, lychee, apricots, and other ripe fruit augmented by mature smokiness and a faint burnished/earthy edge. The palate is fantastic - powerful with tremendous intensity, yet only moderately sweet and surprisingly light on its feet with much more acidity than I typically expect from Gewurztraminer. Each sip lingers for minutes, and this is really a stunning wine.

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• prof b wrote: flawed

  November 17, 2018 - Salil and I celebrate: Sadly this wine, which had an interesting and even promising underpinning, was somewhat oxidized and not what it could have been.

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• salil wrote: flawed

  November 16, 2018 - Bummer - had high expectations here, but something seemed off. Slightly oxidative flavours and feeling rather flat on the palate, rather than the ultra-fragrant, vibrant wine I would have expected (especially after an astounding bottle of the '89 Hengst VT a few weeks ago).

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• sweetstuff wrote: 95 points

  December 15, 2016 - Red wax capsule with partially eroded magnum cork. Grown in the oolytic lymestone of this vineyard in the Haut-Rhin. $110/1500 ml.
  
  Coravin old-cork sample 12 pabv; 31 percent Brix; 9.3 residual. Kermit Lynch. Gueberschwihr Goldert, AOC Grand Cru Gewurztraminer, Vendange Tardive. This wine is a deep brown-green with a thick texture, but with richness and mouth-feel Punchy and energetic; with tobacco, plum and orange, with full texture and acidity to match; very reluctant weepings. Beeswax and redcurrant promenant; a Beerenauslese-level texture and sweetness. As it airs, a full whiff of grapefruit syrup comes into the nose. Given that we have more than a full bottle left, chances good for a re-tasting . Plenty of white-wine tannin will hold up the structure. 95/100--2016-2021. However, much depends on storage conditions.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1989
• Type White - Off-dry
• Producer Zind-Humbrecht
• Varietal Gewürztraminer
• Designation Vendange Tardive
• Vineyard Goldert
• Country France
• Region Alsace
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Alsace Grand Cru

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• In Cellars 13 (32%)
• Consumed 28 (68%)

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