1997 Hugel "S" de Hugel

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  10/5/2014 - SAND Likes this wine:

  Medium golden colour.
  Nose: Opens quite muted, with some notes of mature riesling (petroleum / "firne"), wet, minerally stone and a distant hint of rose petals.
  Taste: Rich taste and texture. Dry but slightly oily. Obviously mature but still quite a bit of fruit. Fruit stone and lots of minerals. Structured and well balanced. Long and minerally aftertaste. Mature and drinking wonderfully now but will probably keep even past its 20th birthday.
  A great testament to the Hugel family's wine making skills and traditions and to the traditional Alsacian way of blending wines (grapes)!
  This wine is the ancestor (or predecessor) of Hugel's basic wine "Gentil". It's a blend of the four noble varieties (Riesling, Gewurtztraminer, Pinot Gris and Muscat) much of it grown in the famous "Sporen" Grand Cru vineyard in Riquewihr, hence the "S". This is the way many Alsace wines traditionally were made, blending several or all of the grape varieties.

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