1983 Domaine Weinbach Gewurztraminer Sélection de Grains Nobles

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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  8/24/2021 - apg23 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A different kind of dessert wine - much more my liking than the really sweet stuff. Honey with a trace of minerality. Very long finish. One glass is plenty, but matched with the right food it is spectacular.

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  9/18/2019 - Nelmezzo Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Opened this for a friend's birthday, drank with a fish soup. Bought for $20 from mark down bin in early 90s, kind of forgot about the bottle. Was afraid it might have been too old. Cork moist and soft but came out whole. As soon as I smelled it from the bottle, I knew it was OK, but did not expect a glorious wine. As noted, the color was an astonishing pure gold. Sweet but good acid. Honey, flowers, apricot. Our party was bowled over.

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  1/17/2019 - dcwino wrote: 92 Points

  Very youthful subtle yet exotic nose displaying lychee, apricot, peach, honey, rose, sweet spices and burnt sugar. Fully integrated palate, nicely layered lychee and peach fruit, surprisingly not too sweet, bright acidity and medium mineral. The finish clips quickly due to strange bitterness which has been consistent in all four bottles that I have drunk. This is not a sweet dessert wine. 94 point nose and 88 point palate.

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  6/24/2017 - Bandreas Likes this wine:

  This was the Clos des Capucins.
  Honeyed amber color, fragrant nose, tea leaves and rose petals; tasted alongside the other -sweeter - wines it first appears that no trace of sweetness is left.
  Retasting the wine alone shows ample, but not cloying, sweetness, tempered by a bitter aftertaste. Intriguing; has survived the 34 years in bottle rather well. Tasted well the second day, after being decanted off into a half bottle.
  Went well with the tuna/avocado tartar, the bitterness balancing the oily taste of the tartar....

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  2/25/2017 - cct wrote: 98 Points

  Opened three days before the tasting.
  
  TN a composite of the first night and one week later. Honestly more from the second week, as that night, after all the food and wine, while it was delicious, it had a difficult time shining.
  
  Golden color. On the nose rosewater, honey, lychee, gewurz spice, brown sugar, citrus pith, and orange bitters. This has turned smoky and spicy, and while the roses and lychee fruit are present it is more about the mature notes. On the palate, rich and dense with great tension and freshness. Fantastic texture with a broad frame, and sense of density without any heaviness. It is less overtly sweet with more caramelized sugar and brown sugar notes behind the rosewater and honey. This wine carries the RS effortlessly. Layered and outrageously complex, this is a contemplative wine that draws you in and forces you to think. There are layers upon layers, all morphing on the palate, and with a seemingly endless finish. Complicated, harmonious, beautiful stuff. Maybe not the transcendent bottle I had last time, but awfully close a week later. This may outlive me. My next bottle will be opened and served as an aperitif or with cheese, maybe again at the end of the meal, or better yet, served over several meals over several nights, and then again in the middle of the day by itself. A great, great wine. 98

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