That is the coolest exposure in one of the warmest appellations in France
followed by extensive maceration and aging in Slovenian oak
and it is the most useful bottle on the table
COS was founded and named after three friends in 1980—Giambattista Cilia
more typical of the late 1990s than a modern Montalcino vintage
Hugel Gewurztraminer 2023 Style_Rosso di Montalcino That is the coolest exposureThe Land Alsace sits in the rain shadow of the Vosges, and the effect is not subtle. Colmar, twenty kilometers from a crest that tops out at 1,424 meters, gets roughly a quarter of the precipitation that falls on the ridge above it, somewhere between 500 and 600 mm a year, which makes this one of the driest wine regions in France. The climate is semi continental: cold winters, hot dry summers, a long slow ripening season. Hugel's home is Riquewihr,