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Wine Description
The Story
It's our own interpretation of the expected quality of the great terroir of the Sporen vineyard, famous since the XVIIth century. A profound, suave Gewurztraminer with great complexity, it will still improve for years and keep for decades.
Wine Information
The vintage :
Climatic conditions were a carbon-copy of the excellent 2007 vintage. Budburst at the end of April was quite late, but May was warm and sunny so flowering began on 15th June and took more than a fortnight to complete.
July and August were particularly cool with hardly any rise in temperature, but in mid-September the Indian Summer arrived without a drop of rain. The sky stayed bright but temperatures were relatively cool.
As a result, the grapes ripened slowly but fully, perfectly healthy and with excellent acidity. In late October we harvested VT and SGN wines with historically high levels of sugar and acidity.
The 2008 Alsace vintage was already born great but may prove to be exceptional.
In the vineyard :
Produced in a selection of the oldest plots of the Hugel estate in the heart of the grand cru Sporen made up of Lias clay-marl, decalcified on the surface, exceptionally rich in phosphoric acid
Winemaking :
The grapes are taken in small tubs to the presses, which are filled by gravity, without any pumping or other mechanical intervention.
After 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 extensively in our cellars until released for sale.
This wine may show a small sediment of tartrates.
Alcohol level : 14.0°
Residual Sugar (g/l) : 14.7
Acidity (g/l) : 5.48
pH : 3.45
Age of vines : 30
Yields : 45 hl/ha
Grapes :
Gewurztraminer : 100%