Hugel & Fils Riesling Classic, Alsace

Cepages:

Riesling

Description:

Complex steely palate showing excellent fresh fruit and minerality.

Vintage:

2020

Alcohol %:

12

Colour:

White

Country:

France

Group:

Alsace

Bottle Size:

75cl

Closure:

Cork

Wine Code:

0330

Producer:

Hugel

Website:

www.hugel.com/en/hugel.php

Other Info:

Made exclusively from hand harvested grapes from predominantly clay and limestone vineyards, in a dozen of the most favoured localities in and around Riquewihr. A cool and long growing season give this unique dry wine great finesse and unequalled intensity.

Hints of lime and petrol on the nose followed by a complex steely palate showing excellent fresh fruit and stony minerality. From one of Alsace's very top producers.

Press:

'For a real blockbuster riesling and something slightly more suited to cooler weather and the belt-bursting Alsatian cuisine of sausages, bacon and other pork cuts and choucroute - aka sauerkraut in Germany, variations of which appear on almost every restaurant menu - try the Hugel Estate Riesling from one of the biggest names in the area - less aromatic than the others, this has real depth and mouth-filling body, with pear and pie crust flavours and a long finish. And if you are not into choucroute, try this with a grilled prime fish, like a whole sea bass or John Dory.' - Terry Kirby, The Independent

'[Alsace] is also one of the world's great centres for riesling, which it makes in a style marked by the variety's typical quivering steeliness and minerals but, as in Hugel's textbook example, boosted with orchard fruit succulence, blossom and spice.' - David Williams, The Observer

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Food match:

Drink with any and all kinds of seafood.

 

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