Domaines Schlumberger - Kitterle Gewurztraminer Grand Cru 2003 75cl
Bottle

Product Description

Limited stock, 2008
- 2010 vintage coming soon.

Colour: Lemon yellow with light green reflections & good intensity. Nose: A distinguished nose with delicate aromas dominated by exotic fruit, litchi, mango, spice & hints of rose. Aerating reveals grapefruit, passion fruit & ginger. Complex & splendid. Palate: Well structured, a good body & a splendid range of flavours
- spice, ginger, exotic fruit, grapefruit, litchi, passion fruit & floral notes. superb freshness with a beautiful long finish. Food Matching: An accompaniment to a selection of blue cheeses & candied pear with ginger. H&-picked into crates. Whole bunches pressed at once before being left to settle on the lees. Fermentation takes place in temperature controlled tuns before being left for another 8 months on the lees. The Kitterle vineyard was given the nick name Calf-breaker by the local vine growers who worked in the breathtakingly high vineyards on the steep slopes. This volcanic-sandstone plot is on unique site, on a steeply sloping rocky outcrop facing south-west, south & south-east. The light, sandy soil, which need to be retained by huge dry stones walls only gives low yields. 20 ha out of this 26 ha plot belong to Domaines Schlumberger. Tall bottle may not fit in gift boxes.