July 6, 2018

TRAMIN Gewurtraminer 2014

(Alto Adige, Italy) $20

A thunderbolt of a wine. Intense doesn’t begin to describe it. Dry, spicy, and hugely aromatic. Bring on the Thai curry or tandoori chicken.

What wine region once prohibited swearing in the vineyards?

A. Burgundy, France

B. Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy

C. Rheingau, Germany

D. Tokaj-Hegyalja, Hungary

From the 1600s through the early part of the 1700s, the vineyards of Tokaj-Hegyalja in northeastern Hungary were considered so sacred that anyone caught swearing could be fined, and the fine was often doubled if the swearer was a nobleman. At the time, the rare sweet wine Tokaji Aszú was one of the most celebrated wines in the world. Considered a gift from God and a wine that possessed miraculous healing properties, Tokaji Aszú was thought to be the one elixir that could revive someone on his/her deathbed.

“Living wines have ups and downs just as people do, periods of glory and dog days, too. If wine did not remind me of real life I would not care about it so much.”

TRAMIN Gewurtraminer 2014

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