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12-31-2002, 09:01 AM,
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Curious, my suspicion is that your backgrounds leave you and your husband quite wary and maybe too sensitive to alcohol; it is an armchair psych-opinion, but as kcwhippet and IK mentioned, the level of alcohol in the wine you had simply was not high.

As for the "bitter" that your husband identified, that is right on. Gewurztraminer can be quite bitter if the grape is handled badly. I have always wondered at the success of Fetzer Gewurztraminer, since I have found the winery (though good at other wines) has never been able to produce a Gewurztraminer of any interest to me. They often try to hide the bitterness with a lot of residual sugar. And if the one you had contained residual sugar, but was still 11.5% alcohol, the grapes might have been too ripe at picking. In Alsace, Gewurztraminers are often quite ripe when picked, and the resulting alcohol of their wine is usually quite high, which isn't always a good thing when pairing with food.

Like Pinot Noir, Gewurztraminer requires proper attention to make it into good wine. You selected a difficult wine for beginner tasting and pairing with food.



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