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Vouvray Demi-Sec Clos du Bourg, Domaine Huet 2022
White Wine from France - Loire
Classic demi-sec from this Loire appellation's most famous producer and a magical single vineyard. Still young and vigorous, enjoy now in the freshness of youth or wait a few years for greater complexity to come.
Price:
£40.00
Bottle
Price:
£240.00
Case of 6
In Stock
Code: LO19001
Wine characteristics
- White Wine
- 4 - Medium/off dry
- Chenin Blanc
- 75cl
- Now to 2042
- 13% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Cork, natural
- Organic
Huet L'Echansonne
Domaine Huet is the undisputed leader of the Vouvray appellation on the north bank of the Loire River where the chenin blanc grape is king. The exemplary house style here is one of purity of expression and the wines are legendary for their tautness and minerality. Huet is certainly the greatest domaine in all of Vouvray, if not all of the Loire and its current proprietor is Chinese-American financier, Anthony Hwang, also owner of the famed Királyudvar estate in Tokaji in Hungary.
Huet makes the whole spectrum of Vouvray styles, from bone dry through to fully sweet and sparkling. The vintage conditions determine which wines are made in any one year; in less good vintages only dry or sec wines tend to be made. Most vintages produce demi-sec, whereas the sweetest style, moelleux, and the special cuvées of sweet wines are only produced in more favourable years.
The tuffeau limestone-rich soil helps provide near perfect conditions for chenin, a relatively easy grape to grow, though a difficult one from which to make consistently top quality wine. It is prone to the benevolent fungus botrytis cinerea, or noble rot, which adds complexity to sweeter styles when conditions are right. There are three vineyard sites, all of which are managed on biodynamic lines and certified so: Le Haut Lieu, the original vineyard of the domaine and tends to be the earliest to mature, Le Mont, which is usually the last vineyard to be picked and lastly, the iconic walled vineyard, Le Clos du Bourg,...
Decanter
Read moreThis producer's standout demi-sec Vouvray of 2022. Enticing honeysuckle and linden blossom aromas, silky-smooth, youthful fruit, anda light floral sweetness balanced by a precise backbone of mineral...