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Community Tasting Notes 12
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SAND Likes this wine: 88 points
November 22, 2020 - NOSE: Classic Alsatian GW nose with rose petals, lychees and papaya with addition of some stone minerality. (88-89p)
TASTE: Lovely, clean fruitiness. Obvious ripe, warm vintage fruit, quite rich and off dry mouthfeel. Drier on the mid palate with the typical slight bitter touch (think peach stone) arriving at the exit, into the medium long aftertaste. And then there’s the cleanliness or purity of fruit, this hallmark of Hugel winemaking even in warm vintages and at basic quality levels. Hugel’s basic wines consistently outperform some of the Grand Crus from lesser producers and typically offer the best QPR of any Alsace wines. This wine, their basic GW is yet an example of that. (87p)
OVERALL: Drinks nicely now. Will easily last until 2025 but expect it to gradually loose freshness. So with this wine’s ripe fruit in mind I would drink it by 2021 or 2022. It kept and improved (1-2 points?) after being kept cold for several days after opening. TOTAL SCORE 88 points. -
Justinneal654 Likes this wine: 88 points
September 20, 2020 - Perfectly fine. Not special, no layers or nuance. Do not drink except with food.
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AudunG wrote: 84 points
August 10, 2020 - Classic Gewürstraminer aromas with exotic spices. Full bodied, juicy and forward. Lacks some structure and freshness.
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SAND Likes this wine: 88 points
January 18, 2020 - A private wine dinner: NOSE: Lovely. Fruity, lychees, white pears.
TASTE: Clean GW fruitiness.
OVERALL: Nice, mature GW, still full of vitality. 88-89 points. -
Schjold wrote:
December 29, 2019 - Lang og saftig. Ok til sterk mat
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 2015
- Type White
- Producer Hugel
- Varietal Gewürztraminer
- Designation Classic
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Alsace
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation Alsace
- UPC Code 089744364982
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 96 (35%)
- Consumed 182 (65%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
mild and soft cheese, pork, poultry, Rakfisk, spicy foodsWho Likes This Wine
91% Like It 11 votes
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