Famille Hugel
Muscat TRADITION 2006
A very dry wine with pronounced grapiness, giving the impression of biting into a fresh Muscat grape, it is perfect as an apéritif and with asparagus.
Specifications
Age of vines : 20 years old
Yield : 55 hl/ha hL/ha
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A very dry wine with pronounced grapiness, giving the impression of biting into a fresh Muscat grape, it is perfect as an apéritif and with asparagus.
The vintage
The harvest began on 27 September in bright sunshine but after a season of climatic ups and downs. There was a heat wave in July, followed by an August that seemed like November, until excellent weather in early September saved the crop. Two days of warm rain just one week before the vintage put everyone in their starting blocks and so set the rhythm for the harvest. This was a true vintners' vintage, where rigorous and skilful vinification has been rewarded with success. There are some very fine Gewurztraminers.
In the vineyard
Harvested exclusively by hand from the very beginning of harvest to ensure perfectlt sound grapes and good natural levels of acidity.
Winemaking
12 hours skin contact on Muscat in 2006. After very gentle and skow pressing, the must is decanted for a few hours, then fermented in temperature-controlled barrels or vats (at 18 to 24°C). The wine is racked just once, before natural clarification during the course of the winter. The following spring, the wine is lightly filtered just before bottling, and the bottles are then aged in our cellars until released for sale.
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Varietals
Muscat ottonel : 60%
Muscat à petits grains : 40%
Muscat à petits grains : 40%
Specifications
Age of vines : : 20 years old
Yield : : 55 hl/ha hL/ha
Advice
Tasting notes by Serge Dubs, World's Best Sommelier 1989
I always await the release of a new Muscat with impatience, because I have a weakness for Muscat wines in general, and for Alsace Muscat in particular, for it is a traditional dry wine with a grapey Muscat fragrance.
This 2006 is fresh, young and alert, with a joyful aromatic expression and a nice Muscat perfume. It is also very floral, with the liveliness and bite that are the first requirements of such a wine : to be dry, refreshing and easy to enjoy, light, crisp and aromatic, a true Alsace Muscat in fact.
Drink it well chilled at 6° to 8°C as soon as it hits the glass, so as not to miss the aromatic sparkle of the Muscat grape on the tongue, and the unfailing sensation of unquenchable thirst that assails me when tasting a fine Alsace Muscat.
Drink it without hesitation as an aperitif, or with goat's cheese, or with dishes that can even be strong-flavoured or spicy.
29 July 2007
This 2006 is fresh, young and alert, with a joyful aromatic expression and a nice Muscat perfume. It is also very floral, with the liveliness and bite that are the first requirements of such a wine : to be dry, refreshing and easy to enjoy, light, crisp and aromatic, a true Alsace Muscat in fact.
Drink it well chilled at 6° to 8°C as soon as it hits the glass, so as not to miss the aromatic sparkle of the Muscat grape on the tongue, and the unfailing sensation of unquenchable thirst that assails me when tasting a fine Alsace Muscat.
Drink it without hesitation as an aperitif, or with goat's cheese, or with dishes that can even be strong-flavoured or spicy.
29 July 2007
