Vin d’Ottawa

9.5

In early 2020, we picked up this Alsatian Grand Cru Gewurtztraminer. We wondered what the highest grade of Gewurtztraminer would show & tonight, 5.5 years later, we found out.

This tastes almost like Japanese Umeshu (plum wine) but with the sweetness exchanged for subtlety. Lychee & pineapple are at the forefront and it eases indulgently into Marzipan.

Great with curry and imagine it would be just as good with blue cheese. — 15 days ago

with Gillian

Jeroen Koenen

9.0

Young, talented winemaker building a reputation for his Rieslings, but this Gewürztraminer is very nice, too.
Bouquet is leaning to floral nuances, not so much to the usual tropical fruit/lychee kind of thing. There's apricotjam, sweaty minerality, lavender soap and a whiff of kirsch as well. I notice some sweetness in the entree, but it's not cloying, tiring or plump. Well balanced, a very fine maybe even elegant Gewürz! — 9 years ago

Timothy Eustis

Wine Director, Red Lion Inn

8.9

Classic sylvaner taste. Greenish with some honeysuckle too. Mineraly. High acidity. 2024. — 4 months ago

Rebecca Burgess

9.3

Ho. Ly. Crap. Sweet yet light. Sultanas and apricots at the peak of ripeness. Silky sweetness — 6 years ago

Scott Barber

Wine Educator Meadowood Napa Valley

8.9

Copper highlight, touch of RS, slightly phenolic finish. Solid, quality Alsace PG. It does everything is supposed to do. — 8 years ago

Rich Reader

9.2

The ridge of 450 million year old mussel shells (kalck) hums through the searing cayenne in my Kung Pao Chicken, with a helping hand from about an ounce of this wine going into the saute, followed by another couple of ounces in each glass — 9 years ago

with Guadalupe

Jennifer Vargas

9.2

Sweet and tart. — 4 years ago

Samuel Danthine

8.9

Pear, apple and flowery — 5 years ago

bernybsa

9.1

Dry and elegant. Long finish. — 8 years ago

Gordon Kramer

9.2

Brilliant wine. Traditional petrol notes of Alsatian Riesling, great fruit (apricot and peach) body and acid round out an excellent example that punches well above its price point. — 9 years ago