Domaine Weinbach, Gewurztraminer Reserve Personnelle

from that back of the basement closet; burnished brass color; a bit of must quickly blows off; still has (mostly) exotic fruit including lychee and mango (?papaya); minor sweetness and acidity; an acquired taste (my wife didn't care for it) but still enjoyable

Peach compote and rose petals on the nose. The palate is slightly oily and viscous with honeyed stone fruit and cloves wrapped around grapefruit acidity. Delicious!

Gewürztraminer is a woefully underrated grape, and this is the best I've ever had. Made in Alsace, which has been passed back and forth for years between France and Germany, this bottle is bright, floral, Aryan, spicy, feminine and beautiful, much as I recall Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall. For those who are allergic to uppity tasting notes, please excuse yourself now or give yourself that Epinephrine injection you so often have to administer when reading about wine. …

Floral spices, ripe apricot, and orange marmalade. Off-dry with nice acidity. A little alcohol poking through on the finish.

89-90

Very nice wine gewurz with a touch of grapefruit and some of the lychee that cartime wrote about and then a hint of gasoline. All comes together in some way that tastes pretty good and stood up to some great vietnamese food. A nice, potent wine that shouldn't be toyed with.

A really nice wine - the sweetness took a backseat after the bottle was open for a few hours. Still ripe, but acidic enough to stay balanced.

Light medium golden yellow color; baked, spicy peach, ripe Gewurz, roses nose; ripe, concentrated, ripe peach, mineral, roses palate; medium-plus finish (has definitely declined and is past its prime compared to when I tasted it 3 years back)

Medium gold color. Perfumed nose of honeyed tropical fruits, lychee, lavender, and sweet spices with a Riesling-like diesel note. Lush, full bodied palate of honey, lychee, banana, and allspice. Just off-dry with perfectly balanced acidity. There is quite a bit of perceptible alcohol on the palate that carries over to the long finish, leaving it a little hot. This is the only thing keeping this from a higher score. Definitely better than my recent tasting of the 2008 - fuller …

Beautiful honey, light gold color. Spicy, floral, some peach and a little petrol on the nose. Palate was quite full and rich and so nicely balanced with moderate acidity. Very nice wine. Prob even a few points higher (for me) in 2-3 years. I need to drink more gewurtz and less riesling as I find some rieslings (esp when young) lack the balance of a wine like this.

Great spicy freen fruit and floral nose; oily texture, sweet, lychee, gardenia and mineral palate; medium-plus finish 93+ pts.