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Banyan 2007 Gewurztraminer
Quick Overview
Of note for the 2007 vintage is an increase in spice and minerality. This vintage is definitely more Alsatian and true to the Gewurztraminer variety. Peach, apricot, cloves and tea leaves make for a very aromatic wine. Produced in an off-dry style to be refreshing and complement spicy foods.
Product Description
This wine comes from an old vine block planted in Northern Monterey County between the Santa Lucia Highlands and the Gavilan Range where wind, fog, and cool temperatures predominate year round. The vineyard is carefully farmed to assure the specific ripeness that Banyan is looking for which sometimes means harvesting particular vines from particular rows, and particular rows from within the greater block. A long growing season and temperatures that rarely rise above 80 degrees F create an ideal spot for such an intensely aromatic wine. 2007 was unusual because there were physiological ripening and mature flavors at lower sugars than normally expected, but the harvest was late resulting in lower acidity and this years Gewurztraminer is consequently a bit drier than previous years to compensate and balance the lower level acidity.
Additional Information
| Food Pairings | Indian Vegetable Curry
Maytag Blue, Mild Cheddar and Meunster cheese. |
| Varietal | Other Whites |
| Accolades | 84 points -- Wine Spectator |
| Winemaker Profile | Kenny Likitprakong The Hobo Wine Company is the brainchild, side job, menace to the wine industry, hedged bet, cash strain, mental anguish, late night musing, bruised hands, dirty t-shirts, and constant companion of Kenny Likitprakong. Despite knowing better, he started his own label in 2002 with the simple idea to have some good fun. Here is what he has to say about his company Hobo Wines: The question always comes up, Why Hobo? A friend in the wine industry once told me that he figured the hobo name came from the fact that I was about the dirtiest winemaker he knew. The part about me being the dirtiest winemaker might be true, but it is not where the name came from. It's partly a trip I'm on about a dead American era and partly about the fact that I don't own a winery or any vineyards. If you are looking for estate bottled wines, you have come to the wrong place. Hobo is my tribute and homage to a freedom and an era that I grew up romanticizing. I think I spent a lot of my late teens and early twenties chasing the rambling ways of the American Hobo. When I was seventeen I started traveling around, listening to Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen and the likes, seeing the different parts of the country and other countries, writing in journals and taking photos and didn't really stop until I was twenty-three or twenty-four. As the experiences racked up, I found out that the hoboes had disappeared. The hobo had become a relic in the story of our expanding country. Like all good heroes, I figured they deserved their place in history and on wine bottles. Instead of becoming a hobo, I became a Hobo Winemaker. Of the two ways to make wine, with and without money, the first should probably be the only, but a few of us slip through the cracks and do it on the skinny. No winery, no vineyards, no truck, no warehouse, no employees, nothing. There are advantages. Making small lots comes naturally, the flexability to pick and choose grape type, vineyard, appellation, and winery on an ongoing basis, and a larger circle of people involved which means more ideas and expertise. |
| Case Price | Buy 6 for $ 11.40 each -- 5% discount Buy 12 for $ 10.80 each -- 10% discount Mix and match for quantity discount |
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