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2011 Josmeyer Gewurztraminer Hengst
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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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2011 Josmeyer Gewurztraminer Hengst

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

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95(+?) Points | International Wine Cellar , September 2012

(15% alcohol and 22 g/l residual sugar):  Bright golden yellow.  Slightly reticent but very deep and complex aromas of tropical fruit, honeyed crystallized ginger and cinnamon, all lifted by a shot of liquid minerals.  Rich, dense and creamy, with canned peach, dried apricot, ginger and sweet spice flavors complicated by pure minerality.  Finishes suave and very long, with noteworthy precision and wonderful cut.  This exceptional gewurztraminer should be long-lived.

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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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