B00ze Review: Hogue Gewurtztraminer 2002

Oh gosh. This is pleasant, with a really lovely apple/pear nose and a light and pleasant flavor, a little spicy and a little like very dry apple cider. It reminds me of something I haven't had since I was in Germany, the name of which I never remembered. It was also only 10 bucks, and should have been three times that.

Highly highly recommended. In fact, I'm going to go stock up in case there are more hot afternoons coming up. I hear we might have some, um, hot weather or something, and nice dry sippin' wine would be very welcome in that sort of thing.

B00ze Review: Hogue in General

Hogue appears to be a winery to keep an eye on these days-- in the past month or so, I've had their Merlot, the Hogue Genesis cabernet sauvignon and cab/merlot blend, and the previously-mentined gewurztraminer. None of these have disappointed. The Hogue Genesis merlot was maybe a little generic, but certainly well worth the 9 or 10 bucks for the bottle. The cab was more-- 28ish for the bottle-- but also well worth that, as it was tasty and complex and went well with the pasta and tomato sauce I chose to accompany it. The cab/merlot blend was a good midpoint, with the merlot doing enough merlot things to balance out the hugeness of the cabernet.

I can only begin to recommend these enough. All the Hogue reds I've tried have been at the very least, good. At the best, they've been very good. And again, the gewurz was exceptional.

I've got their other whites lined up for my later delectation, and I have high hopes. The Genesis reds will be restocked soon, for general stocking-up needs. Recommended, overall.