Riesling Hommage Jean Hugel
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 15 to 40 years from the vintage release, with the capacity to age even longer under cellar conditions.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared foie gras, mature blue cheeses, or classic fruit tarts.
✨ Technical Specifications
This rare and exceptional cuvée is a tribute to Jean "Johnny" Hugel, the legendary figure who spent his life championing the Alsace region and pioneering the strict legal definitions for late-harvest wines. Sourced from the most prestigious, steep clay-limestone slopes of the Schoenenbourg grand cru vineyard in Riquewihr, this Riesling represents the absolute pinnacle of Hugel's craft. Produced only in extraordinary vintages from highly concentrated, botrytized grapes, it is vinified with minimal intervention in historic, century-old oak foudres. The resulting wine is a masterpiece of tension, balancing intense, honeyed sweetness with a searing, vibrant acidity and a profound, petrol-edged minerality.
🍾 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
Riesling
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
11.5-12.5%