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2009 Domaine Weinbach Gewurztraminer Altenbourg Selection de Grains Nobles
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Albert Hertz, Eguisheim
About Domaine Weinbach

Domaine Weinbach was established in 1610 by the Capuchin monks who also gave their name to the domaine's most prized vineyard, Clos des Capucins. The estate itself got the name Weinbach--which literally translates to "wine brook"--from a little stream that trickles through the property.

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2009 Domaine Weinbach Gewurztraminer Altenbourg Selection de Grains Nobles

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

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94 Points | International Wine Cellar , September 2012

Bright yellow gold.  Spices, ripe tropical fruits and vanilla bean on the perfumed nose.  Then very rich and sweet on the palate, with smoky bacon, candied mango and mirabelle flavors lingering impressively on the back end.  This big, fat wines loses some of its gewurztraminer typicity at this level of sweetness, but it offers a major mouthful of flavor.

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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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