Andrew Jefford | Mid-white gold. Very beautiful Gewurztraminer scent of cream, ginger, and jasmine, with a hint of musk rose. How can you resist anything that smells like this? Classy yet sensationally attractive, too. Very sugar- saturated, and within those sugars a great wealth of perfume—more so, in truth, than fruit wealth. So, the result is a very sweet, very perfumed wine of impressive complexity and absolute varietal fidelity: outstanding. The very greatest, though, have just a little bit more: either some fruit ballast, or a sense of earth and stone (also a ballast). This is fine wine, but the sugars for the time being have such an upper hand that I am not sure where to find the ballast. Perhaps it will come with time. | 92

Charles Metcalfe | Yellow with a glint of gold. Young and vigorous, with tight lemon and litchi aromatics. Very young, very restrained, but already showing the Gewurz signature flavors of litchi and barley sugar. Everything is big about this wine: the acidity, the alcohol, the sugar level, the intensity of flavor. It all needs to settle down in a cool cellar for a few years. But when it comes together, it will be excellent. | 93

Jancis Robinson | Mid-straw. Sweet, sugary nose. Thick and syrupy with some angular acidity and chew on the end. Just a bit sickly. Youthful. Drink 2017–22. | 85