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Riesling Estate
2017
The culture of the vine has been practiced in Alsace for more than 2000 years. We find traces of the first Hugels in Alsace as early as the 15th century, and some two centuries later, Hans Ulrich Hugel settled in Riquewihr in 1639 and took the head of the powerful Corporation des Vignerons. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Hugels were recognized as great winegrowers. In 1902, Frédéric Emile Hugel left the old family property to settle in the center of Riquewihr, where the heart of the...
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Plot selection from the Hugel Family estate located in Riquewihr in the most prestigious crus. The marls of Riquewihr give this Riesling a minerality characteristic of these great terroirs.
Presses fed by gravity, without pumping or other manipulation. After static settling for a few hours, the musts are transferred to tuns or vats where fermentation will take place with temperature control (from 18 to 24°C). A single racking before winter where the wine clarifies naturally without artificial cold treatment. Light gentle filtration before bottling in the spring and then aging in bottles in our cellars.
Straw yellow, lemon color with lots of light green reflections. Beautiful harmony between the fruity aromas and an excellent minerality despite the youth. Spring flower, granny smith apple, white peach, lily and acacia flower. Racy and noble in harmony with its marly soil which brings it generosity, flesh and a nice hold with a nice finish on the full and persistent finish. Pairings with lobster, veal blanquette and pork chop.
Time has polished this excellent dry riesling to a wonderful harmony of richness, a wide spectrum of candied fruit, and dried sage and tarragon complexity. Plenty of structure, but the wine is creamy and silky in the very long finish. A cuvee of sites, more than 70% of which is from the Grand Cru Schoenenbourg with mixed vine age. Drink or hold.
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The 2020 Riesling Estate is from marly soils around Riquewihr, including the upper part of the grand cru Schoenenbourg. The nose is discreet yet complex and layered with flinty and earthy aromas as well as yellow paprika notes. Very elegant and refined on the palate, this is an intense, saline and structural Riesling with fine tannins, lots of salt and a serious, maybe even somewhat austere personality. The 2020 surely has an excellent aging capacity and will further improve in the bottle. 14% stated alcohol. Diam cork. Tasted at the domaine in April 2024.
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A generous dry riesling that is still a bit reserved at almost 4 years of age. On the palate it shows more, having the richness typical for the exceptionally warm vintage (think Asian pear and candied orange peel), but this is so well proportioned that it doesn't feel even slightly too much. Very long, elegant, dry finish with plenty of chalky minerality. Drinkable now, but best from 2024.
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This impressive dry riesling is now coming into its own, and with new aromas (most importantly red apple, lime, grapefruit and dried herb) emerging with each swirl of the glass. On the palate it marries boldness and ample structure and some real textural complexity. Crisp, mineral finish with very well integrated acidity. Drink or hold.
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The 2020 Riesling Estate was picked across marl sites in Riquewihr, mainly the declassied grapes from the
Schoenenbourg Grand Cru, especially the young vines. It opens with a serene lift of dried chamomile and
dried lemon peel. With an exquisite and subtle phenolic frame, the palate also channels these herbal and
citrus notions. Still, it smooths them with an incipient, balm-like mouthfeel on a linear yet limestone-buered
body. This is streamlined, aromatic and lifted, and will only increase with age. It says Alsace with the rst
whi and will be emblematic of a bone-dry, balanced and understated Riesling. (Bone-Dry)
Predominantly from the grand cru Schoenenbourg yet not from the best parts or the oldest vines, the 2017 Riesling Estate, which was bottled in spring 2018 but is being released only today, offers delicate, clear and coolish, slightly flinty fruit that represents the Keuper marl soils of the cru yet with some light sandy parts as well as the deeper, heavier parts at the bottom. Very elegant and refined on the palate, this is a linear and saline Riesling with stimulating salinity and grip. It has good intensity and length and well-dosed power, but perhaps it's a little rustic in its phenols. 12.5% stated alcohol. Diam cork. Tasted at the domaine in April 2022.
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Légère réduction au nez, bouche large, assez épanouie, dotée d’une bonne persistance de saveurs.
Guide vert 2022
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Vivid straw-green. Delicately perfumed nose of white peach, mint and green apple. Then slightly riper yellow apple and pear flavors, complicated by a hint of licorice and lime. Not a big step up in intensity and depth from Hugel’s 2017 Classic Riesling, but the 2016 Estate is still very young and folded upon itself. Finishes long and bright with nicely persistent hints of peony and jasmine. All estate-grown grapes, mainly from young vines of the Grand Crus or the more vigorous vines growing on lower-lying sections of those slopes.
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