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Nicolaysen Family Vineyards 2001 Late Harvest Alisos Vineyard Gewürztraminer (Santa Barbara County)

Editors' Choice

Price $50

At nearly 10 years of age, this beautiful Gewürz shows how well a good California dessert wine can age. It’s still brisk in clean acidity, but is honeyed and sweet, with nearly 19% residual sugar. Shows rich, exotic pineapple, tangerine marmalade, gingerbread, apricot jam, buttered toast, crème brûlée, vanilla cream and spice flavors, leading to a long, deliriously… — S.H. (10/1/2011)

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Nicolaysen Family Vineyards 2002 Late Harvest Bien Nacido Vineyard Pinot Blanc (Santa Maria Valley)

Price $50

Pours dark for a dessert wine, an old gold-orange color that suggests bottle age. And indeed, it’s nearly nine years old. But it’s still rich and vibrant in orange liqueur, honey and crème brûlée flavors, finished with clean acidity. The residual sugar is an amazingly sweet 22.6%. — S.H. (10/1/2011)

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Late Harvest Alisos Vineyard Late Harvest Bien Nacido Vineyard

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Gewürztraminer Pinot Blanc

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