Vendange Tardive Riesling Hugel Half 2015
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Vendange Tardive Riesling Hugel Half 2015
HED13264
37.5 cl
12.5%
£34.00
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Hugel Riesling Vendange Tardive 2015 is a rich dessert wine from Alsace crafted from late-harvested grapes in an exceptional year. This wine is sourced from the steep marl slopes of the Schoenenbourg Grand Cru which provides a firm mineral backbone to balance the high natural sugar. The 2015 vintage displays a bright golden colour with intense aromas of honey, lime marmalade, petrol and white flowers. On the palate it is full-bodied and luscious with a vibrant acidity that ensures the sweetness remains fresh rather than cloying. Flavours of candied ginger and ripe peaches lead into a long and complex finish.
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Vinous
Pale luminous straw-green. Remarkably elegant nose of minty botrytis, apple sauce, pear nectar, crystallized ginger and lemon curd. Then fresh and clean, displaying strong minty and chlorophyll notes to the apple and tropical fruit flavors. Finishes very long and multilayered, with enticing citrusy cut. The Schoenenbourg has plenty of clay, so the wines are often especially good in warm years such as 2015. The Hugels made about 6,000 bottles of this beauty (they made more VT wine in 2015 than the preceding 29 years, as almost all the Schoenenbourg was hit by noble rot). In fact, this wine was made with both air-dried (passerillé) grapes and noble-rot-affected grapes (only 20% of the total). Ian d'Agata1st April 2018
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