Famille Hugel
Riesling HUGEL 2012
Totally dry with high natural acids. This famous grape celebrated in all the Rhine valley combines great elegance, finesse and minerality. Our most gastronomic wine for most fish and seafood dishes and many Alsace specialties.
Specifications
Alcohol content : 12.2° % vol.
Residual Sugar : 3.3 g/l
Tartaric acidity : 8.10 g/l
pH : 2.99
Age of vines : 30 years old
Yield : 65 hl/ha hL/ha
Presentation
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Riesling is the Pinot Noir of white wines! It is our most demanding variety as it is also the latest ripening. Dry and elegant, it expresses itself best on our steepest slopes with the most complex minerality.
The vintage
12 days of bitter cold in February (-18°C), budburst early April, flowering spread over 3 weeks.
Damp early summer but superb August. Harvest began on 24 September. Superb grapes.
Patchy weather during part of the harvest then fine sunny intervals.
Fine well-balanced classic wines, similar to 2011 but richer and with more depth, yet already accessible.
Hugel did not make any SGN in 2012.
Damp early summer but superb August. Harvest began on 24 September. Superb grapes.
Patchy weather during part of the harvest then fine sunny intervals.
Fine well-balanced classic wines, similar to 2011 but richer and with more depth, yet already accessible.
Hugel did not make any SGN in 2012.
In the vineyard
Made exclusively from hand harvested grapes from predominantly clay and limestone vineyards, in a dozen of the most favored localities in and around Riquewihr. A cool and long growing season give this unique dry wine great finesse and unequalled intensity.
Winemaking
The grapes are taken in small tubs to the presses, which are filled by gravity, without any pumping or other mechanical intervention.
After pressing, the must is decanted for a few hours, then fermented in temperature-controlled barrels or vats (at 18 to 24°C). The wine is racked just once, before natural clarification during the course of the winter. The following spring, the wine is lightly filtered just before bottling, and the bottles are then aged in our cellars until released for sale.
The whole production of this wine is closed with DIAM the cork without the risk of cork taint.
After pressing, the must is decanted for a few hours, then fermented in temperature-controlled barrels or vats (at 18 to 24°C). The wine is racked just once, before natural clarification during the course of the winter. The following spring, the wine is lightly filtered just before bottling, and the bottles are then aged in our cellars until released for sale.
The whole production of this wine is closed with DIAM the cork without the risk of cork taint.
Presentation
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Varietal
Riesling : 100%
Specifications
Alcohol content : : 12.2° % vol.
Residual Sugar : : 3.3 g/l
Tartaric acidity : : 8.10 g/l
pH : : 2.99
Age of vines : : 30 years old
Yield : : 65 hl/ha hL/ha
Advice
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Tasting notes by Serge Dubs, World's Best Sommelier 1989
True to Hugel family tradition, this is a fine, thirst-quenching Riesling, dry, lively, fresh and easy to enjoy, with great elegance and drive.
Beautiful pale green colour, bright and youthful.
Fresh, clean lively aromatic expression.
Attractive fruit-driven taste of green apple, gooseberry, citrus, grapefruit, lime, with spring blossom, elderflower and primrose.
A nice wine to serve chilled at 8°C as an aperitif, or to start a meal.
Drink it now or within the next two years with all seafood, shellfish, crustaceans and fish, raw, marinated or sushi, and with river or sea fish, poached, grilled or smoked.
Beautiful pale green colour, bright and youthful.
Fresh, clean lively aromatic expression.
Attractive fruit-driven taste of green apple, gooseberry, citrus, grapefruit, lime, with spring blossom, elderflower and primrose.
A nice wine to serve chilled at 8°C as an aperitif, or to start a meal.
Drink it now or within the next two years with all seafood, shellfish, crustaceans and fish, raw, marinated or sushi, and with river or sea fish, poached, grilled or smoked.
Reviews
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"Bright and mineral-driven, this snappy Riesling is well-knit, with a subtle mesh of crunchy pear, star fruit, beeswax and lemon zest flavors. Offers a clean, lingering finish." [+]Wine Spectator, Alison Napjus - 2014
92
"Bright lime nose, racy and crisp with lovely citrus and floral notes; elegant and precise, vivid finish that goes on and on" [+]SommJournal, Anthony Dias Blue - 2014
"This is so refined, layered and downright delicious – textbook Alsatian styling with a modern sensibility. It could make a riesling-lover out of the most reticent." [+]
Wine Align, David Lawrason - 2015
Wine Align, David Lawrason - 2015
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