Hommage Collection
⏳ Drinking Window
2015 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
blue cheese, foie gras, apricot tart
✨ Technical Specifications
The Hommage series (most notably the Hommage à Jean Hugel cuvées) represents the absolute pinnacle of Famille Hugel's sweet wine production. Created to honor the legendary Jean 'Johnny' Hugel, who championed the official recognition of Alsace's late-harvest designations, these rare wines are produced only in exceptional vintages. Sourced from the finest grand cru clay-limestone slopes of Riquewihr, such as Schoenenbourg and Sporen, these Vendanges Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles (SGN) masterpieces are crafted from meticulously hand-selected noble grapes affected by botrytis. Vinified with minimal intervention and aged in historic, century-old oak casks, they showcase breathtaking complexity, luscious sweetness, and a vibrant mineral backbone.
🍾 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, Pinot Gris, or Riesling (typically bottled as single-varietal cuvées)
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
11-13%