Alsace Riesling Vendange Tardive 2012

Famille Hugel

Alsace Riesling Vendange Tardive
2012

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$128.00

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Service fees
$ 21.75
Product code
15089351
Format
3 x 750ml
Listing type
Private import
Status
Unavailable
Type of product
Still wine
Licensee price
$106.00
Country
France
Regulated designation
Appellation origine controlée (AOC)
Region
Alsace
Appellation
Alsace
Classification
Vendanges tardives
Varietal(s)
Riesling 100 %
Colour
White
Sugar
Sweet
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

Made from overripe grapes from a selection of the oldest plots of the Hugel estate of the Schoenenbourg grand cru.

Production notes

The grapes are transported to the presses, by gravity, without pumping or other mechanical intervention. After pressing, the must is decanted, then fermented in barrels or temperature-controlled vats. The wine is racked once. In the spring, the wine is filtered before bottling which ages for a long time in the cellars.

Tasting notes

Soft and harmonious with a pleasant touch of freshness. White peach, grapefruit, cardamom, bergamot, hawthorn, gooseberry and Sichuan pepper. The palate is captivated by its persistence in the mouth, clear, transparent and refined. Pairings with foie gras, blue cheese and desserts.

Press reviews

Vinous

- 95 points -

Ian d'Agata, April 2015 (Vintage 2012)

(4.3 g/l total acidity and 48 g/l sugar): Bright golden yellow. Candied lemon peel, custard cream and apple pie on the very rened nose, with a hint of minty herbs. Sweet, dense and lush, but with a terric spine of acidity framing the pineapple and fresh citrus avors. Really opened with aeration to show knockout complexity. Hugel was unsure initially about making a VT in this vintage but in the end opted to make this one. The grapes are from the Schoenenbourg

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