Gewurztraminer was one of my first wine loves. It’s duality of spicy and fruity made it an interesting and tasty wine for a budding young wine lover; it also helped bridge the gap between sweet fruit wines and dry whites. This wonderful Gewurztraminer does exactly what I remember Gewurztraminers being able to do: the potential of turning a sweet fruit wine lover into a grape wine lover. But this wine goes even further, because it’ll turn even die-hard red drinkers back to whites, if only for the afternoon, or for a few glasses, at the very least (it will remind them of the complexity which whites can show). Sourcing the grapes from the much ballyhooed Wismer Vineyard in Beamsville, this wine starts off with a spice and lime nose, then moves easily into lychee, mango, honeydew, apple and some subtle perfumeyness. Then it’s time for the sippin’. This wine produces a plethora of great flavours in the mouth, including (but not exclusively): peach, lychee, pear, cantaloupe and hints of spiciness. Finally, after I had made my notes, I read the back of the bottle (as I am sometimes apt to do) – here it made mention of “rose water” – I sniffed and sipped again … I’ll give them the rose part (I called it perfumey); but anyway you slice it, this is one delicious wine.