2005 Domaine Ostertag Gewurztraminer Fronholz Vendanges Tardives

Medium gold. Pure, spicy, slightly high-toned aromas of ripe citrus, honey, caraway seed and flowers. Very rich, fat and sweet, with a deep spiciness accentuating the purity of fruit; glyceral without being heavy. Not at all a meaty style of gewurztraminer. Wonderfully tactful, sweet back end. Mostly from fruit harvested on October 27. There was more botrytis in gewurztraminer than in riesling, said Ostertag, but in 2004 it was the other way around.