Weine der Domaine Huet - seltene Einzelflaschen

Appellation Vouvray Controlée, Rebsorte: Chenin, zu genießen 2015 - 2040

La Revue du Vin de France  18/20

The Wine Advocate  RP 94+

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2014 Clos du Bourg Domaine Huet mit heller, goldgelber Farbe. Aromen von reifem, weißem Pfirsich und Limette. Im Mund frische, mineralische Frucht, Zitrus, dichte Struktur am Gaumen, seidig im Abgang

The Wine Advocate  RP 94+  Reviewed by: Stephan Reinhardt  Drink Date: 2015 - 2040

The 2014 Vouvray Clos du Bourg Sec is brighter colored than the Haut-Lieu and shows a white-golden color. The nose indicates a very delicate, fresh and mineral wine of great finesse and beautifully clear white fruit flavors, which changes somewhere between young Chablis and Riesling from a limestone terroir. This is just gorgeous (or will be one day) and provided with some smoky flavors of Speck or air-dried hamm (jamón serrano), along with lemon juice, chalk, carambola and some floral flavors. Like the 2014 Haut-Lieu Sec, the Clos du Bourg is also quite round and gentle on the first palate; it shows a great finesse, refined fruit elegance and enervating raciness that reminds me of the finest dry (German or Southern Palatinate) Rieslings, although the power and length seems even stronger towards the finish. I have rarely tasted a young Chenin that combines power, finesse, elegance and persistency in such a perfectly balanced way. This is surely a wine to buy, drink and store. The only error possible here is to buy too little of it.

1. 13 % Vol. Alc. Naturkork
2. Allergene: Enthält Sulfite
3. Flascheninhalt: 0,75 l      
4. Erzeuger/Abfüller: SAS Huet, Sarah et Hugo Hwang, 13 rue de la Croix Buisée, F-37210 Vouvray, Tél : +33 (0) 2 47 52 78 87, email: contact@domainehuet.com

Appellation Vouvray Controlée, Rebsorte: Chenin, zu genießen 2025 - 2045

The Wine Advocate  RP 96

La Revue du Vin de France  18/20

The Wine Advocate  RP 96  Reviewed by: Stephan Reinhardt  Drink Date:  2025 - 2045

Huet's 2014 Vouvray Le Mont Sec is the other wine that wine lovers should buy and store, especially those with a heart for crystalline and extremely mineral wines. If Clos du Bourg is like something between Chablis and Riesling, Le Mont is comparable with Sancerre from Silex soils, but again also dry Riesling from the bedrock parts of Lower Austria (along the Danube river). Its aroma on the nose intertwines white and green fruits like apples and lemons with coolish flint stone, spicy and floral aromas in a subtly intense, very intriguing and complex way. There is a great purity and linearity on the complex and elegant, intense and persistent palate, but also some ripe fruit flavors that remind not just of crystalline Riesling but also aromatic wines from grape varieties such as Muscat or Sauvignon Blanc. This is a powerful and intense but much more finesse-full, purely mineral and highly elegant wine with a beautiful touch of sweetness (say roundness) and lovely citrus flavors. This is the most elegant and delicate Chenin of Huet's dry trio and its aromatic length, energy, salinity and spell-binding finesse is truly unrivaled. This is simply great Chenin Blanc and Huet's hallmark wine of the vintage. Chapeau!

1. 13 % Vol. Alc. Naturkork
2. Allergene: Enthält Sulfite
3. Flascheninhalt: 0,75 l      
4. Erzeuger/Abfüller: SAS Huet, Sarah et Hugo Hwang, 13 rue de la Croix Buisée, F-37210 Vouvray, Tél : +33 (0) 2 47 52 78 87, email: contact@domainehuet.com

Appellation Vouvray Controlée, Rebsorte: Chenin, zu genießen 2020 - 2034

The Wine Advocate  RP 91+?  Reviewed by:  Stephan Reinhardt  Drink Date:  2020 - 2034

I tasted the 2014 Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Sec again and was surprised by the irritating dominant versatile flavors on the nose, which I didn't notice last year. The palate is pure and mineral, full of freshness, grip and tension. This is a vital and firmly structured Chenin that is pretty young and should be aged for several years.

With the 2015 vintage, Domaine Huet offers (almost) the whole range of Vouvrays again: Secs, Demi-secs, Moelleux and the noble sweet 1ère Tries. However, there was no Clos de Bourg Sec and no Moelleux produced in 2015, just a Demi-Sec; the other crus were selected in all styles and this has not been the case for years now. More than this, 2015 is an exceptional and historic vintage again at Huet (perhaps the best since 1997). I can only recommend to buy cases of all styles. You might know or have learned from my last Huet report (see Interim November 2015), that even the dry and medium-dry wines can age for decades. You just have to find your favorite Huet terroir before you can explore its talents in style and ageability. The 2015s combine super ripe, tropical fruit flavors and juicy textures with concentration, perfectly integrated acidities and enormous precision that reflects the different terroirs, even in the noble sweet Première Tries that ranges between 89 (Le Haut-Lieu) and 117 (Le Mont) grams per liter of residual sugar.

The Domaine Huet in Vouvray is one of the few world class producers in the Loire Valley. Its reputation was built by 1910-born Gaston Huet and the Le Haut Lieu, a top single vineyard site that was bought by his parents in 1928 with three hectares under vines, all Chenin Blanc.

Published: Oct 28, 2016

1. 12,5 % Vol. Alc. Naturkork
2. Allergene: Enthält Sulfite
3. Flascheninhalt: 0,75 l      
4. Erzeuger/Abfüller: SAS Huet, Sarah et Hugo Hwang, 13 rue de la Croix Buisée, F-37210 Vouvray, Tél : +33 (0) 2 47 52 78 87, email: contact@domainehuet.com