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From: Alsace, France

Price: $12.99

Gentil is Hugel estate’s entry-level, least expensive, Alsatian white wine.  It is a blend of several white grapes that include: Gewurztraminer, Muscat, Pinot Gris, Riesling, and Sylvaner. 

The 2005 Hugel Gentil is an easy drinking, oak-free white wine that showcases some nice crisp citrus flavors.  Gentil is by no means a blockbuster Alsatian white wine, but it is a nearly flawless picnic wine or the kind of white wine that you don’t mind just sipping on a hot summer day.  However, this Alsatian white wine does have the ability to transform itself into a more serious food-friendly wine.  It matches up well with foods like sushi, various seafood, spicy Asian dishes, salads, and white sauced pastas.

This wine is a huge crowd-pleaser.  It’s also, in my opinion, consistently good year after year.  It won’t blow your mind, but it’s certainly better than average, and at $13 bucks a pop it’s priced nearly to perfection.   

 WineLife365 Rating: 3-Star