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1997 Josmeyer Gewurztraminer Les Folastries
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Albert Hertz, Eguisheim
About Josmeyer

Current proprietor, Jean Meyer, is a well-known gourmand whose wines are among the most food-friendly of Alsace: vibrant, crisp and light on their feet.

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1997 Josmeyer Gewurztraminer Les Folastries

Producer: Josmeyer
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Gewurztraminer
Origin: France
Region: Alsace

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88 Points | International Wine Cellar , July/August 1999

Ripe, smoky aromas of cured meat, curry powder and earth. Quite dry and uncompromising; less evolved than the above. A serious food wine that would go well with first courses like tomato with mozzarella, smoked salmon or herring. Good long finish features a note of rose petal.

86 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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Albert Hertz, Eguisheim
About Alsace

Alsace has been almost pathologically ignored by the American wine-drinking public for generations--a real mystery in light of the great number of juicy, pure wines produced in this picture-postcard region of northeastern France.
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Gewurztraminer

One of the wine world's love-it-or-hate-it grapes, Gewürztraminer is for many wine lovers the signature variety of Alsace. Its highly perfumed aromas of rose petal, smoked meat, lychee, grapefruit, and spices are immediate and captivating, although some examples lack refinement and seem a bit blowzy owing to low acidity and high alcohol. Gewürztraminer is...
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