Weinbach, Furstentum Gewurztraminer SGN Vintage:2006 (from 70+ year old vines)

(from 70+ year old vines)

This also offers a noticeable step up in elegance with its pretty mix of red currant

which has well-embedded structure

spicy and red currant aromas

one of which is in Puligny and the other two are in Chassagne

Weinbach, Furstentum Gewurztraminer SGN Vintage:2006 (from 70+ year old vines)The Fallers' 2006 Gewurztraminer Furstentum Selection de Grains Nobles displays such superficial sweetness for now that it is hard to pull out and possibly also to appreciate its virtues. Candy cane like cinnamon, cyanic fruit pit bitterness, black tea, and musk are all elements in this thick and rather inscrutable elixir whose sheer finishing intensity is breath taking, even if like me one is neither especially enamored by its flavors nor convinced