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Domaine
Jean-Marc Bernhard
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Gewurztraminer
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Grand
Cru
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  This
is a small, family-owned property located in the foothills of
the Vosges Mountains, just northeast of Colmar in the little
burg of Katzenthal. They produce wine from Riesling, Tokay Pinot
Gris and Gewurztraminer grapes on their terroir of granite-based
soils. The wines in general are crisp, clean, fruity and fragrant,
and very well balanced with slightly lower alcohol levels (12-13%)
than their more southerly neighbors. As most Alsatian vignerons,
their wines, excepting the vendange tardive wines, are vinified
dry.
The Mambourg Grand Cru vineyard produces wines from
Gewurztraminer grapes that will give you a new idea of just
how good this wine can be. The Mambourg hill, as it is locally
known, is steeply sloped and faces south by southeast and is
composed mainly of decomposed, mica-rich granite mixed with
stones and clay. It is well protected by the high Vosges Mountains
that guarantee a dry and warm microclimate.
The wines produced from this terroir are noted for their rich
expression of fruit and floral aromas with just enough underlying
mineral notes to make the wines complex and immediately enjoyable.
This Grand Cru Mambourg wine shows all the qualities that one
seeks in a great dry Gewurztraminer with the characteristic
mineral notes well balanced by floral notes and fruit aromas
of lychee nuts and peaches. It is medium to full-bodied and
quite a mouthful with an extraordinary long finish.
Though quite approachable now, this wine can easily age for
up to 10 years in a cool cellar for further development of its
rich qualities.
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Chicago,
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