Gewurztraminer Selection de Grains Nobles
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, pan-seared foie gras, apricot tarte tatin
✨ Technical Specifications
Famille Hugel's Gewurztraminer Sélection de Grains Nobles is a legendary sweet nectar born from the historic clay-limestone slopes of Riquewihr. The Hugel family, particularly Jean 'Johnny' Hugel, championed the strict legal definitions for Alsace's late-harvest and botrytized wines, culminating in the historic 1984 decree. This rare cuvée is crafted only in exceptional vintages when autumn mists and warm afternoons foster the development of Botrytis cinerea (noble rot). Harvesters painstakingly select individual shriveled grapes by hand over multiple passes through the vineyards. The resulting juice is fermented slowly and aged in the estate's historic, century-old oak foudres, yielding a wine of immense concentration, balancing opulent sweetness with vibrant acidity and complex notes of honeyed apricot, lychee, and exotic spices.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1639 in the picturesque medieval village of Riquewihr, Famille Hugel is one of the most venerable and celebrated wine producers in Alsace, France. Managed continuously by more than a dozen generations of the Hugel family, the estate combines historic family vineyards with carefully sourced fruit to champion the diverse terroirs of the region. Hugel was instrumental in establishing the official regulations for Alsace's revered late-harvest categories, Vendanges Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles. Renowned globally for their purity, elegance, and ageability, the winery crafts benchmark dry and sweet expressions of noble Alsace varieties, particularly Riesling, Gewurztraminer, and Pinot Gris, vinified traditionally in century-old oak foudres.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Gewurztraminer
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
7.5% - 10%