Winery HugelSélection de Grains Nobles Pinot Gris
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, cured meat or mushrooms.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Sélection de Grains Nobles Pinot Gris of Winery Hugel in the region of Alsace often reveals types of flavors of apples, peach or apricot and sometimes also flavors of pear, honey or oil.
Food and wine pairings with Sélection de Grains Nobles Pinot Gris
Pairings that work perfectly with Sélection de Grains Nobles Pinot Gris
Original food and wine pairings with Sélection de Grains Nobles Pinot Gris
The Sélection de Grains Nobles Pinot Gris of Winery Hugel matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of quiche lorraine, chicken risotto with curry or baked eggs.
Details and technical informations about Winery Hugel's Sélection de Grains Nobles Pinot Gris.
Discover the grape variety: Pinot gris
Rich, ample whites with a golden robe, showing aromas of pear, quince, honey, smoke, ginger and spice. Made as structured dry wines (Alsace AOC), off-dry and sumptuous late-harvest sweet (vendange tardive, sélection de grains nobles). Lighter and crisper in Italy as Pinot Grigio (Veneto, Friuli). Also in Germany (Grauburgunder), Hungary (Szürkebarát) and Oregon. A grey mutation of Pinot Noir.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Sélection de Grains Nobles Pinot Gris from Winery Hugel are 1999, 2007, 2008, 1998 and 2013.
Informations about the Winery Hugel
The Winery Hugel is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 53 wines for sale in the of Alsace to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Alsace
Capital of great French aromatic whites, most often dry and single-varietal. Straight, mineral Riesling (lemon, gunflint), opulent, exuberant Gewurztraminer (lychee, rose, spices), round, smoky Pinot Gris, floral, crisp Muscat, supple Pinot Blanc. Fine, fruity Crémants d'Alsace, exceptional sweet Vendanges Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles. 15,500 ha at the foot of the Vosges on varied soils, 51 Grands Crus since 1975.
The word of the wine: Primeur (wine)
A wine made to be drunk very young, bottled and marketed very soon after fermentation (about two months). Syn.: new.
