Barmes Buecher (500 ml) 2007 'Cuvee Maxime' Gewurztraminer Vendange Tardive, Alsace AOC

Item Number: 5112 UPC: None

Country: France
Region: Alsace Sub Region: Alsace
Appellation/AVA: Alsace AOC
Estate Grown Wine: Yes
Vintage: 2007
Grape(s): 100% Gewürztraminer
Type: Wine - Dessert
Bottle Size: 500ml Pack: 12
Closure: Cork
Alc by Vol(%): 14
Residual Sugar(g/L): 48.6
Total Acidity: 5.5
Viticulture: Certified Biodynamic
Soil Type: Marl and limestone
Age of Vines: 26 years

Tasting Notes: This wine is a panoply of intensely sweet and savory notes layered over one another in a concentrated lushness. It’s a warm honey color in the glass with a gold rim. The nose opens up with a touch of smoke and slate, which leads to flower petals and toffee. The finish is sweet honey and candied ginger, and miles long. It’s a dessert wine, and would be work well with a pumpkin pie or a similar earthy, autumnal dessert. This is one to pull out for Thanksgiving.

“A later-harvest Gewürztraminer, this is bright and terrifically drinkable for a ‘dessert wine’; semi-sweet on the whole, it shows golden raisin, vanilla extract, dried papaya, soy and candied sesame.” - Jeremy Quinn

Vendange Tardive is a late harvest wine that is only prepared in favorable years, which sometimes means only once or twice a decade. They are so rare that production of these and their even-rarer botrytised counterpart, selection de grains nobles, together comprise less than 1 percent of the entire region’s wine.