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 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)
13.5% - 14%