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Sperling Gewürztraminer Icewine 2014

Okanagan Valley, British Columbia V.Q.A., Canada

Community Score: 4.5/5
Community Reviews: 8

Price: $49.95

Sweetness: Sweet
Alcohol: 12.4%

Drink: 2016-2022

Bottle size: 375 ml
Winery: Sperling Vineyards

Greg Hughes rated this wine as 93/100 with the following review:

Gewürztraminer icewine is just as interesting as it sounds. It is puzzling it isn't chosen more often as an obvious candidate for tasty icewine in Ontario and British Columbia.
It has a natural spiced quality that balances the ultra fruity quality icewine tends to embody.
This Gewürz embodies that spice quality perfectly. Along with a compellingly deep, lustrous gold colour, it has a strong pungent aroma of roses, chai tea, and smoked honey.
High alchohol for an icewine (12.4%), but Gewürz tends to do that - no matter the style of wine it is used for.
The flavours are very tropical - mango, yellow plum, dried pineapple. It retains a lot of the honey so apparent on the nose. There's a long finish with some great orange marmalade notes. Absolutely great finish!
Ann Sperling's ventures in Ontario (Southbrook), B.C. (Sperling), and Argentina (Versado) are all carefully managed by her and her team and the quality speaks for itself.
She is somewhat of an icon in Canadian wine.
Gewürztraminer icewine is always something special, but this one is pretty excellent. Pair it with rogan josh and papadams.

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