Famille Hugel - Alsace Riesling Vendange Tardive - 2013

Famille Hugel

Alsace Riesling Vendange Tardive 2013

- 96 points -

From the Schoenenbourg and a small plot in the Engelsreben (both located in Riquewihr), the 2013 Riesling Vendange Tardive has a golden-yellow color and offers an intense but also coolish and spicy bouquet with notes of stewed apples, crushed stones and fine botrytis. Bottled with 11.2% alcohol plus 68 grams per liter of residual sugar, this is the richest VT Riesling Hugel has ever bottled. The wine is nevertheless very elegant, refined and persistently mineral due to its uplifting salinity and lemon bitters. Greatly balanced, this is a classic that will improve over decades. Tasted at the domaine in April 2022.

March 2023