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The February 2018 Distinguished Cellar Auction Featuring The Tower Cellar
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"The 1997 Gewurztraminer Vendange Tardive is a sexy, luxurious, and exotic wine. Lovers of full-throttle, in your face Gewurztraminers will find all they can handle in this highly-expressive, flamboyant offering. Extravagant aromas of fresh lychee nuts and spices immersed in rose water explode from the glass. This full-bodied, sweet (50 grams residual sugar per liter), hedonistic wine is oily-textured and densely packed with tropical fruits and juicy over-ripe peaches. It is surprisingly pure and well-balanced for such a flashy wine."
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"The 1997 Gewurztraminer Vendange Tardive is a sexy, luxurious, and exotic wine. Lovers of full-throttle, in your face Gewurztraminers will find all they can handle in this highly-expressive, flamboyant offering. Extravagant aromas of fresh lychee nuts and spices immersed in rose water explode from the glass. This full-bodied, sweet (50 grams residual sugar per liter), hedonistic wine is oily-textured and densely packed with tropical fruits and juicy over-ripe peaches. It is surprisingly pure and well-balanced for such a flashy wine."
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The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
Sheltered by the Vosges mountains, Alsace produces aromatic, mostly dry varietal whites - Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Pinot Gris - of exceptional purity and ageability.