Riesling Reserve Personnelle Vendanges Tardives
⏳ Drikkevindue
Typically best enjoyed 10–30 years from the vintage release, with exceptional vintages aging gracefully for half a century.
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
blue cheese, roasted duck, fruit tarts
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
Famille Hugel's Riesling Vendanges Tardives is a monument to Alsatian winemaking, representing a category that the Hugel family itself helped define and codify into French wine law in 1984. Sourced from the steep, clay-limestone slopes of Riquewihr—particularly the historic Schoenenbourg Grand Cru, famed since the Middle Ages for its exceptional Rieslings—this late-harvest masterpiece is only produced in stellar vintages. The grapes are harvested weeks after the main crop, allowing them to achieve overripeness and often develop noble rot. In the cellar, the juice undergoes a slow, natural fermentation and is aged in historic, century-old oak casks. The resulting wine is a sublime balance of intense concentration, residual sweetness, and the searing, vibrant acidity characteristic of the Riesling grape, underpinned by a profound stony minerality.
🍾 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
Riesling
🍷 Alkoholprocent (ABV)
11.5-12.5