Gewürztraminer Grossi Laüe

Famille Hugel, also known as Hugel & Fils, is a winery and negociant based in Riquewihr, Alsace. The family-owned winery has been making wine for almost 400 years. It is known for wines made from the six noble grape varieties of Alsace. The estate was established by Frédéric Hugel in 1902. After a period of devastation wrought by the phylloxera louse in Alsace in the late 19th Century, Hugel began to replant vines, and bottled the resultant wines under his own name. Today, the family owns around 75 acres (30 ha) of vines, around half of which are in grand cru vineyards.

Grossi Laüe signifies the finest vineyards in Alsace dialect and represents an equivalent to the German Grosses Gewächs or the Burgundian Grand Cru.

The color is intense, with good depth, attractively lively and bright, with pale green, straw and lemon yellow hints. The wine is velvety and clings tightly to the glass. The bouquet is frank, light and airy, elegant, fresh and distinguished, nicely perfumed and aromatic, yet not heavy or invasive. All the nuances of a Gewurztrzaminer are displayed deftly, without over-ripeness : flowers (white rose, jasmine, frangipane, almond blossom, lily...) and fruit (pineapple, mango, passion fruit, kumbawa, bergamot). On the palate it is a fine example of harmony and balance, an impressively subtle wine, softly vigorous, velvety, rich and generous yet with an elegant, fresh finish. A little touch of ripe acidity is an invitation to succumb to the charms of this wine, whose finish is as perfumed as its bouquet.