Gewurztraminer Vendanges Tardives
⏳ Drikkevindue
2024 - 2045
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
Foie gras, Munster cheese, fruit tarts
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
Famille Hugel's Gewurztraminer Vendanges Tardives is a monument to Alsace winemaking, born from a legacy deeply intertwined with the region's history. It was Jean 'Johnny' Hugel who championed and drafted the strict legal guidelines for the 'Vendanges Tardives' (late harvest) designation, officially enacted in 1984. Sourced from the steep, clay-limestone slopes surrounding the medieval village of Riquewihr, the grapes are left on the vine to overripen, often developing noble rot (Botrytis cinerea) under the autumn mists. Hand-harvested with painstaking selection, the grapes undergo a slow, natural fermentation in the estate's historic, century-old oak casks. The resulting wine is a sensory masterpiece: intensely aromatic with notes of lychee, rose petals, and exotic spices, offering an opulent sweetness perfectly balanced by a spine of vibrant acidity and mineral depth. It represents the pinnacle of Alsatian late-harvest craftsmanship, marrying power, elegance, and historical pedigree.
🍾 Om vinhuset / producenten
Famille Hugel blev grundlagt i 1639 i den maleriske middelalderlandsby Riquewihr og er et af de mest hæderkronede og berømte vinhuse i Alsace. Vingården har været drevet uafbrudt gennem mere end tolv generationer af Hugel-familien og forener historiske familieejede vinmarker med nøje udvalgte druer for at hylde regionens alsidige terroir. Hugel spillede en afgørende rolle i udformningen af de officielle regler for Alsaces ædle senhøstkategorier, Vendanges Tardives og Sélection de Grains Nobles. Vinhuset nyder international anerkendelse for sine vine præget af renhed, elegance og et enestående lagringspotentiale. Her fremstilles skelsættende tørre og søde fortolkninger af Alsaces ædle druesorter – især Riesling, Gewurztraminer og Pinot Gris – som traditionstro vinificeres på over hundrede år gamle egefoudres.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Gewurztraminer
🍷 Alkoholprocent (ABV)
12-13.5%