Alsace Riesling Grossi Laue 2014

Famille Hugel

Alsace Riesling Grossi Laue
2014

$117.00

* Retail price including taxes and service fees if applicable

2 case(s) available

Service fees
$ 20.00
Product code
15089183
Format
3 x 750ml
Listing type
Private import
Status
Available
Type of product
Still wine
Licensee price
$97.00
Country
France
Regulated designation
Appellation origine controlée (AOC)
Region
Alsace
Appellation
Alsace
Classification
Not applicable
Varietal(s)
Riesling 100 %
Alcohol percentage
12.3%
Colour
White
Sugar
Semi-dry
Closure type
Cork
Producer's website

About this winery

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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Product notes

Grossi Laüe means Grands Terroirs in Alsatian dialect, they are the equivalent of Grosses Gewächs in Germany or Grands Crus of Burgundy.

Production notes

Gravity-fed presses, without pumping or other manipulation. A single racking before winter where the wine clarifies naturally without artificial cold treatment. Light filtration respectful of the wine before bottling in spring then aging in bottles in our cellars until it is put on sale.

Tasting notes

Toasted aromas with its typical notes of fresh almond, nuts mixed with a patina and butteriness that almost make you believe it was aged on wood. The broad, sapid, intensely saline mouth is full and without softness, the vibrant acidity is perfectly present. Pairings with white meats and shellfish.

Press reviews

James Suckling

- 94 points -

James Suckling, June 2022 (Vintage 2014)

This vintage was really trashed by the wine scene, but this ripe and refined dry riesling shows what was possible in a great vineyard site (the Grand Cru Schoenenbour) if you did everything right. Wonderfully creamy mouth-feel and complex minerality behind it. The peach and pear fruit is just beginning to really unfurl. Long, beautifully balanced finish. Drinkable now, but best from 2025.

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Wine Spectator

- 92 points -

Kristen Bieler, January 2021 (Vintage 2014)

Rich and concentrated, with an unctuous mix of peach and lime curd lined with warm hay and subtle honey, this is silky, almost oily, on the palate. Impressively fresh and pure, given its bottle age. Shows invigorating spices, acidity and mineral energy, which bring laser focus and form through the long, bitter-edged finish

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Vinous

91+

Ian d'Agata, August 2016 (Vintage 2014)

Bright golden yellow. Fennel, licorice, orange oil and tangerine on the very complex, deep nose. Multilayered and dense; vibrant acidity nicely focuses the orchard and tropical fruit flavors on the long, mineral finish.

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