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2011 Domaine Ostertag Gewurztraminer Vignoble d'Epfig
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Albert Hertz, Eguisheim

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2011 Domaine Ostertag Gewurztraminer Vignoble d'Epfig

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

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90 Points | International Wine Cellar , September 2012

(33 g/l residual sugar; 5.4 g/l total acidity):  Bright golden yellow.  Explosive aromas of lavender, orange rind, honey and sweet spices.  Rich and full on the palate, with lively acidity lifting the smoky grilled bacon and ripe mango flavors at the back.  As explosively rich as this is, it actually comes across as a fairly delicate gewurztraminer, and it seems less sweet than the technical numbers would suggest.  Made from grapes grown on ten different parcels, all in Epfig.

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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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