1. GermanySure, Germans like to start wars

2. GermanyEven though... 3. GermanyThey are 0 / 2 against the United States 4. Germany 5. GermanyThey used to fight a lot with 6. Germanythe French 7. GermanyLots of people died 8. War sucks! 9. GermanyBut the result of it all 10. GermanyAfter the Franco Prussian War 11. GermanyIs that Germany would control theAlsace region 12. Germany 13. Germany Which is where many of the goodgewurztraminers in the world come from 14. GewrztraminerAnd began spelling it with an umlaut 15. GewurztraminerWhat is gewurztraminer? 16. Gewurztraminer is a type of grape 17. GermanyWith a weird genetic makeup 18. GermanyGewurz = spiced 19. GermanyTraminer = An older grape variety with roots in the Southern Tyrol 20. South Tyrol 21. Germany Gewurz from Alsace has more potentaromatics than those in the rest of Germany 22. GermanyTraminer may = savagnin blanc (not the same thing as todayssauvignon blanc, though bothtraminer and sauvignon blanc mayshare a savagnin blanc root) 23. California Gewurztraminer Back in the 70s & 80s 24. It was a different time 25. California GewurztraminerWinemakers did a terrible job withthe gewurztraminer 26. California GewurztraminerGrew it in the wrong climates and with the wrong soils 27. California Gewurztraminer And since the wine sucked 28. California GewurztraminerThey decided to leave in a bunch ofresidual sugar and sell it as a sweet wine 29. Marketing term:Pissing in the water 30. Marketing term: 31. Example: Fester Vineyards 32. DisinfectingHas been going on for years 33. Gewurztraminer isStarting to do well in California 34. The best CaliforniagewurztraminersCome from the Anderson Valley 35. TerroirThe fruit benefits from long, coolsummers 36. Anderson ValleyCoastal/marine layer 37. Ferrington gewurzDry Farmed (no irrigation/deficit irrigation) 38. Drink up!I dont want to carry it home :)