Alsace Loses Iconic Vintner Jean Hugel
Posted: Jun 10, 2009 2:41pm ET
I received an announcement this morning from the Hugel family in Alsace that their beloved Jean Hugel had passed away. I didn’t really know "Johnny", as he was called, having met him only a few times; Jean retired from running the family business in 1997, the year I began my Alsace beat.
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