Dirler-Cade Spiegel Gewurztraminer 2017

Description

Luminous pale golden yellow. Very elegant lemon curd, flower and mint aromas and flavors have a complex, multilayered quality. Very sweet but also very refined Gewürz thanks to bright acidity (56 g/L r.s. and 4 g/L total acidity) and really impeccable balance. The grapes were harvested on October 12, which strikes me as fairly late given the hot year and that Gewürz is a low-acid grape variety. But the willingness to run risks is what ultimately separates great wines from good ones, and this is a truly outstanding Gewürz, one of the best such wines I tasted all year. Drinking window: 2021-2028. Score - 95. (Ian D'Agata, vinous.com, Jan. 2019)

Tags

Aromatic & Flavourful, Gewürztraminer, S - Sweet, White Wine, Wine