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Monte Belmonte Wines: The Gewürzfather Part II

Weird. What the heck does it smell like? Roses? It tastes like Oil of Olay.”

“It smells like…you know how, in spring, the buds are coming out on the trees? Like those trees that smell like sex?”

“Like a ‘period’ tree.”

“It smells like sex is about to happen. It smells post-coital, It smells both pre-and post coital. It’s like an orgy in a glass.”

Thus was my conversation with my wife, Professora Belmonte, after a first whiff of an interesting oddity of a wine — 2016 Cantina Tramin Gewürztraminer.