100 Wines: A Chronicle (4 & 5)

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 …