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Martinborough Estate Gewürztraminer 2024 750ml

Sam Kim: Wine Orbit

97/100

It's immediately enticing on the nose with mango, lychee, orange peel and exotic spice aromas, leading to a mouthfilling palate that's both elegant and sumptuous. Fabulously composed and expressed with classic varietal flavours combined with refined texture and beautifully infused acidity, making it delicious and hugely appealing.

At its best: now to 2033

We love Gewürztraminer more than any other variety. If there was ever anyone truly deserving of this wine, then think of vivacious Marilyn Monroe undulating over the subway grate in her fluttering white dress - fun, flirtatious, seductive, sexy, and simply the most beautiful among the beautiful.

There are no subtleties here - instead, there is opulence and flesh dancing with florals and lychees and damn right there is sugar, sugar for richness and the need to balance the spice and alcohol - a captivating pirouette atop the palate. There is intensity, however, and with so much intensity you need balance. Hence, the acids are the subtle backbone for complexity.

A wine that is mesmerising, Moorish, fabulous at every turn, soft and curvaceous, stuffed with flavour and spice and innuendos, a wine without equal. It has an unequivocal sensuality.