Welcome to the spice cabinet! Deep, dark and unctuous, this is an enormously spicy gewurz that’s got so much structure (great tannins, like a top red!) that the sweetness is pushed into the background. And the super long finish is so graceful that even a gewurz skeptic like me is seduced. From biodynamically grown grapes. Drink or hold.

Ripe Mirabelle, candied tangerine and barley-sugar notes dance on the intense nose of this wine. On the palate these flavors burst with tempered sweetness, reveling in the intense pithiness of tangerine zest. This wine is concentrated, elixir-like and sweet, yet racy with citrus and appetizing with its intense juiciness. Drink by 2045. ANNE KREBIEHL MW

From vines averaging 67 years of age in a medium to steep-sloping, south/southeast-facing cru on calcareous marl soils, the golden-colored 2018 Gewurztraminer Hengst opens with a deep and flinty, spicy and aromatic nose with lychee and blood orange zest and limon juice aromas. Rich and elegant on the palate, this is a full-bodied, dense and sustainable Gewurztraminer with candied bitters on the long and intense, clear and finely tannic finish. Sweet but not overly so (43.8 grams per liter of residual sugar), this is an excellent wine to pair with spicy dishes. The acidity here is remarkably vital and intermingled with the stimulating tannins. The alcohol is rather moderate for Gewurztraminer. Bottled in August 2019. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in January 2023. - Stephan Reinhardt