Jean-Baptiste Adam Gewürztraminer

If you’re looking for a wonderful wine to sip with someone special – perhaps for Valentine’s Day – Jean-Baptiste Adam Gewürztraminer 2016 is a slam-dunk.

Ted Scheffler

February 11, 2021

Last weekend, I asked my wife, Faith, who was headed to the wine store, to pick up a bottle of Gewürztraminer. The idea was to sip the slightly sweet wine with hot Buffalo chicken wings during the Super Bowl. I figured she would come home with a $12 or so bottle of domestic Gewürztraminer. But, my wife is a bit of a wine snob (thankfully) and so, instead of something cheap, she came home with a bottle of Jean-Baptiste Adam Gewürztraminer 2016, from Alsace ($26.99). I’m grateful that my wife is so generous because this is an outstanding bottle of wine, at any price.

Gewürztraminer is a very aromatic, floral grape variety that grows best in cooler climates such as Germany and Alsace, or Oregon and Washington in this country. It ranges from fairly dry to semi-sweet to sweet. The sweetness and relatively low alcohol of Gewürztraminer makes it a good partner – opposites attract – to hot, spicy foods like Buffalo chicken wings.

I was a little concerned about the vintage of this wine – 2016 – since Gewürztraminer is a wine that doesn’t age too well and should normally be consumed in the first one to three years. However, properly chilled – refrigerator temperature for Gewürztraminer – the wine was wonderful.

Jean-Baptiste Adam Gewürztraminer 2016 is a natural, biodynamic wine that is a fruit explosion of aromas and flavors. It’s brimming with pretty floral aromas and on the palate there’s a riot of fruit flavors ranging from lychee and pineapple to peach and apricot, with additional hints of honey and ginger. It’s not cheap, but if you’re looking for a wonderful wine to sip with someone special – perhaps for Valentine’s Day – Jean-Baptiste Adam Gewürztraminer 2016 is a slam-dunk.

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Originally trained as an anthropologist, Ted Scheffler is a seasoned food, wine & travel writer based in Utah. He loves cooking, skiing, and spends an inordinate amount of time tending to his ever-growing herd of guitars and amplifiers.

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Ted Scheffler

Originally trained as an anthropologist, Ted Scheffler is a seasoned food, wine, and travel writer based in Utah. He loves cooking, skiing, music, and reading, and spends an inordinate amount of time tending to his ever-growing herd of guitars and amplifiers. Ted is also the author of the Utah Bites newsletter, which is published in partnership with Utah Stories. Before moving to Utah, Ted lived in New York City, and numerous states in the US, as well as in various countries overseas, Spain, Japan, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico. He earned a Master’s Degree in Anthropology from the Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research.