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100 Wines: A Chronicle (4 & 5)

100 Wines: A Chronicle (4 & 5)

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Fredric Koeppel
Apr 23, 2008
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Reading about gewurztraminer wines doesn't prepare you for their utter freshness and exuberance, their titillating rose petal-lychee-lime-grapefruit character, the scintillating, crystalline acid, the startling bitterness of the finish. At least I wasn't really prepared for those qualities, all of which I had dutifully read about, when I tried my first …

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