Gewurztraminer
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed within 2 to 8 years from the vintage release to appreciate its vibrant primary aromatics, though high-quality vintages can cellar well for up to 10 years.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Asian cuisine, Munster cheese, roasted duck
✨ Technical Specifications
Famille Hugel's Gewurztraminer is a definitive benchmark for Alsace, showcasing the family's centuries-old mastery of this highly aromatic noble grape. Sourced primarily from the clay-limestone soils around the medieval village of Riquewihr, this wine captures the grape's intense, exotic personality. Historically, Gewurztraminer (the 'spiced' Traminer) has thrived in Alsace's unique dry microclimate, protected by the Vosges Mountains. Hugel crafts this classic cuvée with minimal intervention, utilizing gentle pneumatic pressing and temperature-controlled fermentation, followed by maturation in their historic, century-old oak casks. The result is a wine of intense aromatic complexity, bursting with signature notes of lychee, passion fruit, rose petals, and baking spices, balanced by a vibrant, dry finish that avoids the cloying heaviness often associated with the variety.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1639 by Hans Ulrich Hugel in the fortified medieval village of Riquewihr, Famille Hugel represents one of the world's most enduring wine dynasties, spanning thirteen consecutive generations. The domaine oversees approximately 30 hectares of estate vineyards—largely concentrated in premier climats including the famed Grand Cru Schoenenbourg and Sporen—supplemented by contractual partnerships across Alsace. Sheltered by the Vosges Mountains in one of France’s driest meso-climates, the steep, south-facing parcels benefit from complex geological mosaics of Triassic limestone, marl, and sandstone. Viticulture follows sustainable lutte raisonnée principles with manual harvesting. Winemaking favors classical restraint: pneumatic pressing, spontaneous fermentation via indigenous yeasts, and élevage in century-old neutral oak foudres, devoid of cosmetic wood influence or chaptalization. Famille Hugel famously pioneered the modern codification of Alsace late-harvest wines; its benchmark portfolio is headlined by the dry, structured Grossi Laüe single-terroir bottlings alongside historically revered Vendange Tardive and botrytized Sélection de Grains Nobles cuvées.
🍇 Grapes
Gewurztraminer
🍷 ABV
13.5% - 14%