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2009 Domaine Ostertag Gewurztraminer Fronholz Vendanges Tardives
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Albert Hertz, Eguisheim

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2009 Domaine Ostertag Gewurztraminer Fronholz Vendanges Tardives

Producer: Domaine Ostertag
Style: Sweet Wine
Grape Type: Gewurztraminer
Origin: France
Region: Alsace

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91 Points | International Wine Cellar , September 2012

(98 g/l residual sugar and 5.8 g/l total acidity):  Bright golden-yellow.  Rich aromas and flavors of sweet exotic mango, candied pineapple and ripe citrus.  Broader and more opulent than the 2010.  Made from a harvest on October 29 and 30, from grapes that underwent passerillage in the hot 2009 vintage.  I can't pick up much in the way of noble rot, but Ostertag tells me there's always some. 

87 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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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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