Riesling Estate

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.

Very attractive to the eye with a nice and intense density, straw and lemon yellow with plenty of light green highlights, a wonderful brightness and silvery sparkle over tight and sophisticatedly smooth legs. For the nose it is generous and complex with an attractive purity in its expression, well-stated and full-flavored with a nice harmony between the fruity aroma and an excellent minerality which is quite unusual considering its youth. Spring flowers, Granny Smith apples, white peaches, lilies, acacia blossom. On the palate it leaves a sensation of fullness with all of the strength and lively noble temperament of the Riesling grape variety and its region's river bed clay soil that guarantees its generosity, body and wonderful structure leaving a nice, full and long-lasting finish.