Shy Susan Gewurztraminer 2024

Shy Susan Gewurztraminer 2024
$40, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Alpine Valleys.

This is an exceptional Gewurztraminer. Indeed it’s an exceptional white wine full stop. It was grown on the oldest vineyard in the Alpine Valleys region – a vineyard that was in desperate need of restoration when winemakers Jo Marsh and Glenn James took it over, and which now owes its life to their care – and while there’s precious little of this wine to go around (the vineyard only grew enough grapes to produce 22 dozen bottles in 2024), the quality here is right up there.

This wine is textural, bright with rosewater and lychee, slipped with smoky comlexities and awash with cooked apple, citrus and tonic flavours. It’s both the full box and dice and a wine of exquisite control. There’s a juiciness to this and yet it’s textural and slatey. This is a wonderful white wine in anyone’s language. It’s pure, engaging, charismatic and more. This wine is both great in the glass and a great example of vineyard custodianship. 95 points.