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Wine Description
The Story
It's our own interpretation of the expected quality of the great terroir of the Sporen vineyard, famous since the XVIIth century. A profound, suave Gewurztraminer with great complexity, it will still improve for years and keep for decades.
Wine Information
The vintage :
Climatic conditions were a carbon-copy of the excellent 2007 vintage. Budburst at the end of April was quite late, but May was warm and sunny so flowering began on 15th June and took more than a fortnight to complete.
July and August were particularly cool with hardly any rise in temperature, but in mid-September the Indian Summer arrived without a drop of rain. The sky stayed bright but temperatures were relatively cool.
As a...
