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Gewürztraminer
Gewürztraminer is a high quality white grape which produces classic varietal wines in the Alsace region of France.
It is the second most widely planted grape in Alsace and the most widely planted in the Haut-Rhin where it is particularly well suited to the clay-rich soils found in the Vosges foothills. It is normally fermented dry and produces golden, medium to full-bodied wine with heady aromas of lychees, rose petals and white peaches.
It attains naturally high sugar levels far in excess of Riesling and this makes it ideal for sweet, late harvest wines. These can be unctuously sweet and luscious and the best can last for decades. Rieffel, Hugel and Zind Humbrecht consistently produce the finest Gewürztraminer wines in Alsace.
It is also planted in Germany (specifically in the Rheinpfalz and Baden regions), Austria, the Alto Adige in Italy and to a lesser extent in Australia, New Zealand and California. Gerwürz means spice in German, although this pink-skinned grape tends to produce exotically perfumed rather than spice laden wines.
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André Ostertag is recognised as one of Alsace's most exciting and innovative winemakers, who does not conform to the traditional Alsatian methods of viticulture and vilification. This is an excellent expression of Gewürztraminer, 100 percent biodynamic, and made from 20-year-old vines across several plots around the town of d'Epfig.
The wine has an aromatic nose with notes of honey, ginger and rose petal. The palate opens out to give a wonderful richness and concentration, supported by vibrant acidity and a mineral spine, having been aged only in stainless steel.
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