Famille Hugel Pinot Gris "Grossi Laue" 2013
Famille Hugel
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Grossi Laüe signifies the finest vineyards in Alsace dialect and represents an equivalent to the German
Grosses Gewächs or the Burgundian Grand Cru.
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- Wine Country
- France
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- Grape varieties wine
- Pinot Gris
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- Wine-food combination
- Best served during a meal at 8°C, ideal with fish, white meat or pan-fried or oven-baked foie gras.With any flavoursome or rich dish. With meat: veal, pork, pheasant, partridge, game pie with foie gras.With black truffle, especially if it has been laid down for 5 to 12 years.Fish dishes with strong flavours and spices such as turmeric, saffron, pink peppercorn, red mullet,lobster, king prawns, freshwater shrimp.
About this wine
Description & facts
Great classic Pinot Gris which will gain in complexity for 8 years or more. Its minerality and long complex
aftertaste will make it the ideal partner to white meat and dishes with mushrooms.
- Producer
- Famille Hugel
- Country of origin
- France
- Wine Region
- Alsace
- Classification
- AOC
- Vintage
- 2013
- Grape varieties wine
- Pinot Gris
- % of grape varieties wine
- Pinot Gris
- Tasting note
- This wine's colour is both dense and profound with straw yellow highlights and hints of pistachio green; the legs are smooth, sophisticated, supple and tight with their own very pleasing shimmer. The nose is harmonious, smooth, openly expressive and pleasantly aromatic with deep hints of fruit: pear, baked apple, Mirabelle, apricot, acacia blossom, wild-flower honey, liquorice and hints of peppermint, vanilla and nutmeg. All of this is both appealing and flattering. On the palate this is a fine example of durability, harmony and flavour. It is both generous and juicy without being too heavy thanks to the elegant freshness of its full rounded and nicely aromatic final note. This is a wine that is very easy to approach thanks to its well-stated and clear nature and its wonderful equilibrium and harmony.
- Wine-food combination
- Best served during a meal at 8°C, ideal with fish, white meat or pan-fried or oven-baked foie gras.With any flavoursome or rich dish. With meat: veal, pork, pheasant, partridge, game pie with foie gras.With black truffle, especially if it has been laid down for 5 to 12 years.Fish dishes with strong flavours and spices such as turmeric, saffron, pink peppercorn, red mullet,lobster, king prawns, freshwater shrimp.
- Vinification
- The grapes are taken in small tubs to the presses, which are filled by gravity, without any pumping or other mechanical intervention. After pressing, the must is decanted for a few hours, then fermented in temperature-controlled vats (at 18 to 24°C). This particular vintage was fermented in used Pinot Noir barrels, kept on lees with bâtonnage and underwent malo-lactic fermentation. The following spring, the wine was lightly filtered just before bottling, and the bottles were then aged extensively in our cellars until released for sale.
- Location Vineyard
- From a selection of the 3 finest plots of the Hugel estate in the chalky Pflostig
- Soil
- Clay and Limestone
- Closure
- Cork
- Bottle size
- 750 ml
- Ageing potential
- 5-10 years
