Careful with your AVAs

[Thomas]

Tom,

I do not have that one, but I shall have it soon.

Have you tasted any of the Gewurztraminers (there are scant few) produced in the Finger Lakes? Producer named Prejean does a wonderful job with the variety, and Vinifera Wine Cellars does too, every so often, as does Standing Stone, although the latter producer seems to have trouble coming up with one that has longevity.

The trick here is that you pick for flavor and you add as much sugar as you need before fermentation to produce solid alcohol level. The benefit of the variety is that it ripens early, offering it the opportunity to miss out on our marvelously dangerous early frosts.