2009 Hugel Pinot Gris "Hugel"

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 85.5 points

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  3/4/2014 - Average Wine Guy (MH) wrote: 85 Points

  The 2009 Hugel et Fils Pinot Gris "Hugel" is medium (-) pale straw in colour with a slight tinge of green. The nose displays nuances of lychee, kamquats, green apples and longans. There's also a noticeable slight nuttiness and green peas.
  
  On the palate, the wine enters with flavours of longans, lychees and slight peaches with some acidity that follows, bring up flavours of peas and winter melon. It's quick to fade with a short finish and a slight rising acidity. The mid-palate may lack a tad bit of weight here; not too much to ask for in this casual drinking wine.

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  11/23/2013 - mmcdds Likes this wine: 87 Points

  This is a very nice Pinot Gris with fairly bright fruit and a firm mineral core

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  9/22/2013 - Euell Gophar wrote:

  Aromas of rusty pipe and rubber without much flavor besides a hint of butterscotch. Pass.

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  6/17/2013 - KennyandMarcie wrote:

  Flanked by the Vosges Mountains to its west, Alsace enjoys a climate that seems entirely out of place within its global positioning - it is France's driest region, whereas unprotected Lorraine to the west of the Vosges is one of the country's wettest. Free from rain and clouds the region became renown for cool climate grapes that could nonetheless enjoy a long growing season with abundant sunshine, thus producing spicy, dry, full-bodied white wines both unique and admired (Late Harvest and Noble Rot examples being the exception). Mountains provide no protection against global warming, however, and the past generation of winegrowing has seen an evolvement of the standard, the grapes accumulating so much sugar as they hang on the vine that residual sugar remains even as the yeast does all it can. This Pinot Gris from Hugel is a case point, coming in at a relatively startling 14% abv yet still remaining off-dry on the palate. A delicate aroma of tree & citrus fruit with a mineral edge gives way to more tropical and honey notes on the palate, the creamy, full-bodied texture just kept in balance by the low-medium acidity. A Pinot Grigio this is not, yet for lovers of the Pinot Gris style this wine defines it.

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  4/16/2013 - Champagneinhand wrote: 84 Points

  A very clean wine, with the lightest straw color. This wine was offered and paired well with ham slices. It has a very light fruit profile similar to an unoaked chardonnay, except with the kiss of oak that it sees, there was a slight honeyed texture to the mouthfeel that is tell-tale PG. Not as spicy as the Pinot Blanc, Gerwurz or the Riesling, but decent for food. Not really my idea of a great Alsacian PG, but not $90+ or anything other than dry. For food it worked, but I think there are other choices out there.

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