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2012 Hugel "Grossi Laüe" (Grand Cru Schoenenbourg) Riesling Alsace

2012 Hugel "Grossi Laüe" (Grand Cru Schoenenbourg) Riesling Alsace

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James Suckling

Reviewed December 2020
Fragrant nose with delicate peach and quince aromas that are remarkably fresh for the wine’s age. Broader and bolder on the palate than the nose suggested, this is a concentrated and elegant dry riesling that’s just beginning to give its best. Super food-friendly! Very long, clean finish. Drink or hold.

Professional Reviews

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Vinous

Review Date: 04/2023
The 2012 Riesling Grossi Laüe is from the Schonenbourg Grand Cru. Astonishingly, this is now ten years old but smells much younger. There is a lovely Mirabelle ripeness of juicy, sun-warmed fruit anchored in cooler stone. More air adds a lovely hint of dried hayflower. According to Jean-Frédéric, this is the slowest aging wine in their cellar and is the current release. The palate is even fruitier and juicier, yet with a beautiful contour of lemon, a subtle pithiness and a hint of smoke. This is smooth, sonorous and profound. The fact that there are 7.5g/L of residual sugar is a surprise; the finish seems drier and is long and mouth-watering. Serene and fragrant. (Dry) (AK)

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Decanter

Review Date: 11/2018
The 2012 is a quite different expression to the 2013. The vines experienced a more even growing season, and the result is a more savoury wine that has less fat and more focus. The crystalline structure holds pure stone fruits and a seam of stony, mineral acid which draws onto a long, fresh finish. Beautiful. (JB)

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Wine Advocate

Review Date: 03/2023
Sourced in the best parts of the grand cru Schoenenbourg, so entirely from Keuper marls, the 2012 Riesling "Grossi Laüe" offers a clear, bright and fresh, very delicate and pure bouquet of white fruits with refreshing lemony and finely flinty notes. Full-bodied and quite rich but elegant, this is a fascinating, dense, long and intense salty Riesling with good concentration and a firm mineral and phenolic structure. The phenols could be softer, but I like this straight and robust character. This is a fabulous wine bottled with 12% stated alcohol. Diam cork. Tasted at the domaine in April 2022. (SR)

Notes

93pts Ian d'Agata Terroir Sense: "Pale yellow. Highly complex and clean aromas and flavours of lemon, crushed stone and violet. Then juicy, tight and sharply delineated, with fresh, classically dry, mineral-driven flavours of lemon, lime and mint, with ahint of talcum powder lurking in the background. Closes long and refined. At Hugel they are actually selling the 2013 first (a wine in which all the Schoelhammer grapes went into, so it’s even better than expected) because it’s more open and forward compared to the still fairly closed 2012. Broad yet restrained, this really will need time in a good cold cellar, to allow the piercing, long, clean, fresh chamomile and mint aromas and flavours to show all they got to give. Drinking window: now-2034." (10/2023)

Details

TypeWhite Wine
VarietalRiesling
OriginAlsace, France
Bottle Size750 mL
Alcohol Content14%
SKU1723342