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Vintage: 2006
Purchased: May 3rd 2008
Price: $16.00
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Tasting Notes:
This is my favorite domestic gewurztraminer. Which is saying quite a bit, because gewurz is probably my favorite white wine. This wine is off dry and opulent with the lychee and rose petal perfume just punching you in the face. But what makes this wine great is the acidity that it retains. Gewurz can get very flabby and just fall completely flat. This keeps a great acidity that brightens things up and just makes you smack your lips.
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Vintage: 2007
Purchased: May 31st 2008
Price: $16.00
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Tasting Notes:
This was wine number one for the Mia and Ryan farewell dinner I prepared. It was pared with playful takes on salad nicose and pasta primavera.
This is a nice fruit forward wine with a good dark pink (with hints of salmon) color. The nose is very lively with fresh red berries and violets.
The wine is all bright red fruit on the palate, with a nice acid backbone and a slight residual sweetness on the finish that balances the floral characteristics nicely.
It may be a little expensive for a rose, but a single vineyard wine made with this much care is a good thing to support.
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Vintage: 2006
Purchased: Jun 10th 2007
Price: $14.40
Number on Hand: 1
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Tasting Notes:
This was one of our favorite wines from our trip to Rattlesnake Hills, and thankfully time in the cellar didn't hurt it at all!
In the glass it was a pale golden. It has great aromas of honey, peach and apricot. Very fruity and pleasant on the nose. On the first sip it seems very rich with flavors of ripe apple and peach. What sets apart this wine from much of what is produced in this state is the acidity. It's nice and crisp and refreshing and leads to a very long finish. This is very much in the style of what I've had from Alsace. It's not quite German as the alcohol is a bit higher and the sweetness lower, but it is very good indeed.
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Vintage: 2006
Purchased: Jun 10th 2007
Price: $18.00
Number on Hand: 1
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Tasting Notes:
I opened this desert wine to have with a smore for Kathrine's birthday meal. I remember this wine being excellent when we tasted it at the winery, and it was no exception on this night either.
The amount of work that goes into this wine is amazing at this price, from the winery: "Botrytis cinerea has worked its magic on this Riesling. We hand selected Beerenauslese-only clusters infected with greater than 50% of this noble rot for our Late Harvest Riesling."
You can't touch a Beerenauslese from Germany at this price. I've never had the fortune of trying a great German one, but I can't imagine it being that much better.
This wine has a beautiful aroma of orange blossom, honey, rose, and citrus. In the mouth it's thick and opulent, with the flavors of melon and peach and a great zestiness. It is sweet, about 5% residual sugar, but it is never cloying. The acid is high enough to focus it. The finish is long and pleasant.
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