Boxler farms organically in Alsace, and the granite under these 40-year-old vines gives Gewurztraminer something it doesn't always get: a spine. The perfume is all tropical fruit and blossom, exotic and generous, but there's structure underneath holding it together. Alsatian vignerons will tell you to drink this with foie gras, blue cheese, or a good curry. And they're right, even if Alsace isn't exactly teeming with Thai joints.
Tasting Notes
Foie gras, blue cheese, spicy food, curries. This is what Alsatian vignerons typically recommend serving with their Gewurztraminers. Of course, Alsace is not exactly teeming with Thai or Indian joints, but it certainly inspires some mouthwatering imagery—these wines’ exotic perfume of tropical fruits, blossoming flowers, and spices, plus a gentle touch of sweetness, works wonders with dishes originating far from northeast France. How a wine can be so boldly scented, yet simultaneously so delicate, remains a total mystery, but Boxler’s Brand exudes pure class, and is worth a swirl no matter what you choose to serve it with.
About the Producer
The small family domaine in France that works traditionally using techniques and savoir faire passed down across multiple generations is under serious threat today. Consolidation, technology, regulation, foreign investment, globalization, and many other factors (all in the name of progress), threaten the great agricultural tradition of winegrowing in France, arguably the world’s greatest winegrowing culture. Few domaines in France embody this way of life more ably and proudly than Domaine Albert Boxler in Niedermorschwihr.
