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Featherstone Phoenix 2020 Wine Review

Featherstone Phoenix 2020

Featherstone Phoenix 2020

Twenty Mile Bench, Niagara Peninsula, Ontario V.Q.A., Canada

Community Score:90/100

Community Reviews: 2

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Price: $18.95

Drink: 2021-2022

Bottle size: 750 ml

Alcohol: 13.5%

Sweetness: Dry

Wine Type: White Wine


Winery: Featherstone

Agent: Featherstone Winery

Natalie's Score: 90/100

From the Niagara Peninsula wine region, Featherstone Phoenix 2020 is a lush, mouth-filling Gewurztraminer, fragrant with rose petal, ripe grapefruit and ginger spice aromas on the nose. Off-dry and medium-bodied with rose petal, lychee, citrus and ginger spice flavours mouth filling on the palate. The wine is named for Gewürztraminer vines that were thought dead from cold winter burn, but rose again in the spring... like a Phoenix.

Food pairings: turkey or chicken breast, mild savoury cheese, mild curries.

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This Featherstone Phoenix 2020 was reviewed on May 22, 2021 by Natalie MacLean

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Reviews and Ratings

Matt Steeves - Certified Sommelier rated this wine as 89/100 with the following review:

This limited production (169 cases) Gewurztraminer from the Glen Elgin Vineyard (Niagara Peninsula VQA), shows fragrant spring blossoms, ripe stone fruit, and sweet lychee notes on the nose. Luscious and refreshing, its creamy texture and subtle spicy and fruity finish makes it a wonderful pairing with spicy Asian cuisine, BBQ fare including BBQ'd shrimp and wings, or artisanal cheese platters with Pear-Fig Mostarda. Enjoy 2021-2023. Tasted May 2021. 89 points. Matt Steeves - www.quercusvino.ca

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