2011 Domaine Weinbach Gewurztraminer Altenbourg

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  11/13/2019 - AllRed wrote: 93 Points

  Finishing up Sunday's bottle. Gooseberry and spice- this hasn't lost a thing over the last couple of days. Lovely fruit- gooseberry and pear, perhaps quince, with a flowery element on the finish. Lovely.

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  11/10/2019 - AllRed wrote: 93 Points

  Second Sunday Group: 1999 Napa cabernets (Our house): Notes of apricot, gooseberry and honey. Honeyed fruit and spice on the palate. Balancing acidity. Long finish.

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  9/14/2016 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 91 Points

  It's been over a year and a half since my prior bottle (Feb 2015) and this wine has evolved as predicted. Intense floral, light spices and honey notes on the nose. Opened at 48F, warming to 53F and showed better the warmer it got, become much more aromatic on the nose and more complex in the mid-body. Remains a very rich, mouth-coating style of gewurztraminer. Apple, fig, honey and ginger are still the predominant notes through the middle with good spices qualities and acidity in the background. Overall, this bottle seemed a bit more integrated than my prior bottle with the honey become more of a rich note rather than an overt sweetness. The transition between mid-body and finish was the highlight when the acidity and the richness of the fruit really played off each other, then sweeping into the finish. Clearly, this wine is just getting started and based on the fruit, richness and acidity, should improve for several years to come. If you're looking for a rich style, this is drinking well now, but if you're looking for a racier style, it's worth waiting a few more years. Same score, but I liked and appreciated the wine more this time around.

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  2/3/2016 - forceberry wrote: 92 Points

  From a vineyard located below Grand Cru Furstentum, normally picked when at least a part of the grapes have been botrytized.
  
  Very intense and quite concentrated lime green color. Rich, somewhat developed and very powerful nose with complex, varietally typical aromas of lychee, some wizened apricot notes, a little bit of perfumed rose petals and a hint of tangerine marmalade. The wine is concentrated, full-bodied and oily on the palate with rich, medium-sweet flavors of honey, overripe peach, some Moroccan spices, a little bit of stony minerality, a hint of rosewater and sweet touches of dried pear and pear jam. The wine is modest to medium in acidity, but high enough to keep the wine in balance. The rich and rather tactile texture of the wine feels very lovely. The finish is very long with super-juicy quite sweet yet remarkably fresh flavors of ripe golden apples, honey, some rosewater a little bit of coarse exotic spices and a hint of lemon marmalade. A sharp and tangy citrus fruit character seems to grow in intensity towards the end of the aftertaste.
  
  A wonderfully complex, harmonious and noticeably rich Alsatian Gewurztraminer with a lot of complexity, sense of weight and staying power. A delicious wine on its own and a great pairing with dishes that require a lot of richness and power but not that much acidity. Although starting to show the first signs of development, the wine still feels relatively young and most likely the wine will continue to develop for years more. Most likely hitting its apogee not earlier than in 5 years and quite probably after a longer wait. Impressive and delicious, priced according to its quality at 44€.

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  12/11/2015 - Mazy Likes this wine: 88 Points

  La signature du cépage y est - épices douces et litchis. Ce vin est sec, et la température de service est difficile à régler - trop chaud il semble plat et rectiligne mais un peu plus frais, l'alcool prend beaucoup plus de place. Un beau vin à servir avec la nourriture.

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