Producer: Hugel et Fils Style: White Wine Grape Type:Riesling Origin:France Region:Alsace
Expert Reviews
88 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2008
($24) Pale, bright yellow. Pineapple, crushed stone and a whiff of exotic flowers on the nose, along with a fusel nuance. Then juicy and lively in the mouth, with good intensity to the pineapple and stone flavors. This wine included fully 95% of the house's riesling fruit in '06, including a good bit of Schoenenbourg, which has contributed minerality and depth.
Alsace has been almost pathologically ignored by the American wine-drinking public for generations--a real mystery in light of the great number of juicy, pure wines produced in this picture-postcard region of northeastern France. Read More »
The Riesling grape may scare away some wine novices. In Germany, where the grape reaches its finest expression, labels hew to a rigid, abstruse set of classifications, leaving newcomers with little idea what they may be looking at. Furthermore, many wine drinkers' early experiences with sweet wines from Germany (think Blue Nun), have not been especially rewarding. We say that it's your loss if you continue to fear the... Read More »
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