Wine Reviews

Forget all your ideas about this unfashionable grape! Cool and fresh, but substantial and chalky, this taste like a cuvee of excellent Chablis and a spicy dry gewurz. Long, crisp and flinty finish with a lot of energy.

Ripe, almost overripe notes of juicy pear abound on the nose of this wine. There also is a sense of baked and dried pear but the palate reins that in with majestic zestiness. This wine is bold, concentrated and hot with alcohol. It’s a potent but dry Gewurztraminer of immense impact. The finish is dry and the lovely pear returns on the last notes.

Luminous pale yellow gold. Complex, expressive aromas of fresh citrus and tropical fruits complicated by sweet spices. Then rich, ripe and very sauve, showing noteworthy sweetness to the ripe mango, grapefruit, papaya and spice flavors (cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon). Finishes long and ripe.

Lightly juicy, with mouthwatering acidity, this features a streak of spicy mineral underscoring the flavors of lychee, candied lime zest, white peach and verbena. Fresh and expressive, with a lasting tang of salinity on the finish.

This 2016 Gewurztraminer “Roche Calcaire” (L 17H) is clear, fresh and spicy on the nose, with lots of lychee, pepper and rose petal aromas. The palate is pure, lush, piquant and well-structured, with perfect roundness that doesn’t taste too sweet but like ripe pears. The 2016 is very elegant and balanced and finishes with grip and stimulating salinity. It is a powerful but straight and stimulating Gewurzt with grip, salt and lots of spices. Excellent.