Wine Reviews
Zesty, bright and intensely minerally, this carries its weight with ease, showing lime zest acidity that drives lychee, green plum and mandarin orange flavors. This has a lightness to it, with chalky minerality powering the creamy yet focused palate through the sneaky long finish
Slight flickers of peach appear on the nose of the 2021 Gewurztraminer Rangen de Thann Clos Saint Urbain Grand Cru and almost have a creamy aspect, with tingling grapefruit spice and honeysuckle overtones. It is seductive because nothing is heady, beckoning and beguiling simultaneously. The palate is rich, almost creamy and concentrated, yet gentle. The acidity is buffered, juicy and lemony but tingles with ginger spiciness. This is Gewurztraminer, but not as you know it. Totally different, but boy, oh boy. What an experience. Very long.
It’s hard to imagine how a dry white wine could be more concentrated than this Alsace gewurz. Mind-blowing smokiness and spices, and the wine is focused in a way that is absolutely abnormal for this grape. The interplay of saltiness, delicate bitterness and restrained richness is unbelievable.
Intensely smoky nose with notes of bergamot and gunpowder. Very powerful and structured, but so tense, energetic and bone dry, this is a very great expression of this unique site. Fundamentally volcanic in a radically smoky and dryly textural manner. From biodynamically grown grapes.
A unique wine that breaks the gewurz mold! This is how I imagine the great wines of the Middle Ages tasting, although they would never have been bottled this young and fresh. Deep, spicy and ever-so slightly exotic nose with plenty of smoky complexity.
