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Wine Details
Price:
$15.00 per bottle
Description:
Please note that our 2004 Gewurztraminer production is less than half of usual due to those pesky rains in May when the fruit was setting. The fairest thing we can do is to sell it on a first come first served basis as we do with all our wines. The 2004 vintage is palest straw in color with very appealing floral aromas of white roses and gardenias in particular, and fresh, delicate flavors to entrance your palate. At our Wine Auction Napa Valley lunch in June we learned from Chef Nam Phan of the Napa General Store what a great match dry Gewurztraminer is with Vietnamese food, particularly with the crispy crab and pork spring roll with ginger dipping sauce, which was the hands down favorite of all seven courses.
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Varietal Definition
Traminer:
Parent grape of the popular Gewurztraminer clone. Still grown in France and in California but almost everywhere has been replaced by its much more intense and spicy offspring clone.
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Gewürztraminer:
Cultivated for over a thousand years, this white-wine grape (sometimes referred to simply as Traminer) is thought to have originated in the village of Tramin (or Temeno) in Italy’s Alto Adige region. Gewürztraminer grapes are planted in Alsace, a French region between Germany and France that specializes in excellent dry Gerwürztraminer wines. They’re also cultivated in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Ukraine. Because they perform better in cooler climates, Gewürztraminer grapes have not done well in many of California’s warmer growing regions. However, they thrive in cooler California areas such as Carneros, Anderson Valley, and Monterey County, as well as in parts of Oregon and Washington. The German word ‘gewürz’ means ‘spiced,’ and these wines are known for their crisp, spicy attributes. They’re highly fragrant, with flavor characteristics of litchis, roses, and spices such as cloves and nutmeg. Gewürztraminer wines are available in varying degrees of sweetness -- dry, medium-sweet, and late harvest. Because of the grape’s pinkish (sometimes yellow) pigment, Gewürztraminer wines are some of the more deeply colored of the whites, many have gold or peach tones. The distinctive color and aroma of these wines make them easily recognizable by those familiar with this varietal wine.
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