Winemaker Notes
A beautiful nose of clover, fresh shaved ginger and cantaloupe greet you and set up perfectly for a complex mouthful of vibrancy displayed through notes of apricot, candied ginger and honeysuckle.
Leave the sweatpants or pajamas on and find your favorite take-out sushi place (delivery is even better). This is a perfect match for some sushi, sashimi and miso soup.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Don’t like Gewürztraminer? A dry, stainless steel beauty is prepared to pierce your dogma. This classic perfumed nose of rose water, peach cobbler, clove spice and apple mint breaks down your defenses, then the medium-bodied wine’s orange marmalade and ginger flavors win you over for good
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James Suckling
This is perfumed with notes of ripe kiwi, sliced pears, summer flowers, tangerine peel and spices. Medium- to full-bodied with oily, weighty texture and a polished finish. Rich and fruity.
Gewürztraminer, an expressive and aromatically distinctive white grape variety, is considered a noble variety in the Alsace region of France, and produces wonderful wines in the mountainous Alto Adige region of NE Italy. Generally this grape grows well in cooler regions and its natural intensity makes it a great ally for flavorful cuisine such as Indian, Middle Eastern or Moroccan. Somm Secret—Because of a charming perfume and tendency towards slight sweetness, Gewürztraminer makes for an excellent gateway wine for those who love sweet wines but want to venture into the realm of drier whites.
Stretching southwest from the city of McMinnville, the AVA with the same name covers about 40,000 acres across 20 miles until it meets the Van Duzer Corridor. This corridor is the only break in the Coast Range whose gap allows the cool Pacific Ocean air to flow eastward into the Willamette Valley.
The Pacific's moderating winds hit McMinnville’s south and southeast facing slopes where cool-climate varieties—namely Pinot noir and Pinot blanc thrive on ridges at between 200 to 1,000 feet in elevation.
Soils here are primarily uplifted marine sedimentary loam and silt, with alluvial formations; McMinnville receives less rainfall than its neighbors to the east because it is situated in the rain shadow of the Coast Range.