Famille Hugel - Riesling Estate - 2016

Famille Hugel

Riesling Estate 2016

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.

Ian D'Agata, January 2019