Riesling Selection de Grains Nobles Vendanges Tardives
⏳ Drikkevindue
Typically best enjoyed 15 to 50+ years from the vintage release, with the potential to age gracefully for nearly a century.
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
Roquefort or other artisanal blue cheeses, classic foie gras, apricot or pear tarts
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
Famille Hugel's Selection de Grains Nobles (SGN) represents the absolute pinnacle of Alsatian sweet winemaking, a category that the Hugel family, particularly Jean 'Johnny' Hugel, personally championed and codified into law in 1984. Crafted only in exceptional vintages, this rare nectar is made from 100% Riesling grapes left on the vine to develop noble rot (Botrytis cinerea). Harvesters undergo painstaking multiple passes (tries) through the clay-limestone slopes of Riquewihr to select only the most perfectly shriveled, botrytized berries. Fermented slowly and aged in historic, century-old oak casks in the family's subterranean cellars, the resulting wine is a masterclass in tension, balancing luscious, honeyed sweetness with the searing, vibrant acidity characteristic of noble Riesling.
🍾 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)
7-10%