External search
Google (images)
Wine Advocate
Wine Spectator
Burghound
Wine-Searcher
Vintages
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
Show more
From this producer
Show all wines
All tasting notes
|
| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.1 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 26 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Collector1855 on 6/2/2023 flawed bottle: Unfortunately corked. (930 views) | | | Tasted by TexasBob on 3/5/2023 & rated 89 points: Diabetic urine gold color. Sweet orange and light minerals on the nose. Somewhat oxidized but still with living fruit. Notes of blood orange, beeswax, and honeydew melon. Dying but still drinkable . (472 views) | | | Tasted by Xavier Auerbach on 4/3/2022 & rated 92 points: A private lunch (Bistrot Le Bon Georges, Paris, France): The crisp and minerally core is competely intact, with green apple and lemon curd, but the aromatic profile also displays evolved spiced apple and seal wax, the finish is dry and tight and energetic, with noticeable bitters. Still very good, but it starts to feel a bit disjointed. (1393 views) | | | Tasted by Musigny1955 on 9/23/2020 flawed bottle: {Bought 3 recently, perfect fill and bottle condition} Flawed. Lanolin, minerals, wine in great shape but had overwhelming amounts of brett (Brettanomyces) - not corked, this was brett. Had another bottle from this lot with only a touch of brett, should have posted note on that bottle. (1518 views) | | | Tasted by dnnk88 on 9/8/2020 & rated 93 points: Tues Wine Night @ Imperial GWC!: Yellow fruits, nectar, minerals with a nice zesty, saline finish. Enjoyed this tonight, bravo! Open up (1370 views) | | | Tasted by acyso on 7/18/2020 & rated 93 points: Saturday hangout (socially distanced) (Chicago, IL): The nose is a mix of tropical fruit, wooly funk, spice, and other exotic things. It seems to imply a wine that is quite sweet, which is obviously misleading once you taste to. To be sure, this isn't exactly a bone-dry wine either, and I suspect it's got a few grams of residual sugar still kicking about. Still just a hint wooly on the palate, but there's also really lovely minerality overall. Not really too good to drink on its own, this would be an incredible food wine. (2372 views) | | | Tasted by Collector1855 on 12/13/2019 & rated 94 points: Golden color. Expressive nose of honey, rhubarb, bruised apples, a little oxidative already, showing age. The palate is fresh still with bright acidity. Good length. Very popular at the table. Drink up. (2210 views) | | | Tasted by bookert on 8/16/2019 & rated 88 points: Pure acid, couldn't make out much complexity or character (1359 views) | | | Tasted by Philip67 on 7/13/2018 & rated 85 points: Honey and nuts. But oxidised. Drink up/sell. Structure and fruit there but oxidative overlay. Like a vin jaune. Baked apples, Lemons and candied lemon zest. (1334 views) | | | Tasted by fedro on 1/28/2017 & rated 93 points: Absolutely exceptional and a bargain at the price. Drank with roasted rabbit with chips and alioli. (1948 views) | | | Tasted by JJKinch on 8/12/2016 & rated 92 points: Nice fruit (melon), nice honey, lanolin?, slight waxy/ wooliness, good acidity. Lingering finish. Really enjoyable. Varying waves of flavor on the finish. Slightly darker gold in color. (1731 views) | | | Tasted by Keith Levenberg on 5/23/2016 & rated 99 points: Spectacular, absolutely lights-out stuff. One of the greatest bottles of Huet I have ever had - but then I am partial to the secs. This is cut like a diamond and still has the vibrancy and electric energy of a young wine, but so many more layers. I decanted expecting it to need some time to air out, but it didn't need it. A hint of sulfur or flint for just a couple minutes and then it hit its stride. Along with the crystal clear fruit was a mineral element like they'd bottled up the ocean. Waves of brine and oyster shells with a tactile, sandy texture on the palate to match. And there isn't a trace here of botrytis or those woolly, beeswaxy notes that sometimes give older chenin that not-so-fresh feeling. This is ridiculously alive and singing at the top of its lungs. This bottle had the old, tan label. (7482 views) | | | Tasted by d'Artagnan on 7/12/2014 & rated 92 points: Souper chez Gilles Martin (Orford): Un nez fascinant, complexe, de camphre, pierre à fusil, miel, coing, pomme chaude. La bouche est d'une acidité basse, aérienne, crayeuse. J'étais sur un 2002, sa jeunesse est impressionnante. Superbe vin, qui confirme la sagesse faire vieillir les vins du domaine, même les secs. 92 pts (3253 views) | | | Tasted by mychurch on 12/9/2013 & rated 91 points: Telling fact about this wine was that it was much better on Sunday night than it was on Friday when it was first opened. Initially it was slightly austere and closed, but 2 days sitting in the bottle added depth and honey and tamed down the acidity. If you are drinking this now, then open the bottle the day before and leave it in the cellar/fridge, or decant in the morning. (2717 views) | | | Tasted by JJKinch on 5/31/2013 & rated 91 points: Nice fruit (apricot), slight honey, nice minerality, some richness. Nice acidity. Well integrated. Really enjoyable. Nice light finish. (2377 views) | | | Tasted by redwhiteandrich on 4/15/2013 & rated 89 points: An entirely different beast from the first bottle. This was all minerals and lanolin with a touch of smoke on the nose. And with after nearly 3hrs came around with a palate of stone fruit and a touch of honey. Still the acidity was a tad lacking. (2402 views) | | | Tasted by BradKNYC on 3/6/2013: New Yorkers welcome West Coast visitors to Peking Duck House, but the wine Gods were angry. (Peking Duck House- Midtown): Hmm. Starting to sense a trend. This, too, showed oxidative on the nose and palate, but it did not overpower the wine. While dry, the wine shows richness and depth with apricot, quince, mineral and earl grey tea flavors supported by fine acid levels. Picks up some nuttiness on the finish and trying the remains of the bottle the next day, the nuttiness and oxidative character became more pronounced and the fruit had receded. B+/B. (3026 views) | | | Tasted by redwhiteandrich on 2/28/2013 & rated 90 points: Great nose of honey and quince and stony minerality. After an hour long decant, the palate followed suit, wich the acidity was a bit higher though. (1506 views) | | | Tasted by BradKNYC on 1/29/2013 flawed bottle: The supper club meets at Sarah's. Champagne, Burgundy, Loire Chenin and CDP are served. (Sarah's.): Corked, dangit. One of the first bottles of Huet I ever bought and my last bottle of it. (2160 views) | | | Tasted by megropolis on 11/14/2012: Thanks to those who said quince as I knew the taste but forgot the name as Cydonia is not an easy find in US and this just took me down the memory lane to my childhood which was last time I actually had it.
Quince and beeswax. Not superbly complex since secondary flavors still did not kick in after 17 years but excellent purity due to acidic lift. (1350 views) | | | Tasted by tooch on 10/29/2012 flawed bottle: Rose City Jeeb (Cafe Castagna - Portland, OR): This was a bottle that was showing some really nice fruit and elegance with some faint cork taint in the background. The taint seemed to build with time. Shame as the wine seemed to have some really nice stuff going on. (2061 views) | | | Tasted by strickt01 on 2/5/2012 & rated 91 points: Beautiful golden colour. Not the most intoxicating of noses but sumptuous mouthful of lightly honied quince and pear that is in no way heavy or cloying. The acidity provides exceptional balance to the relative richness of the flavours as well, being delivered as it is in a gentle wash rather than the searing wave of youthful Vouvray. Lovely wine if, as noted before, not particularly complex. (1581 views) | | | Tasted by jkoenen on 6/20/2010 & rated 90 points: White Icons @ my place (Netherlands): Wonderful showing of this wine. Lots of austere, sauvage, out-doorsy, animal-like impressions. Hay, wet wool, barnyard, some seaweed, lots of toast (unless the fact that this wine didn't see any oak, so I was told). But also underripe bananas, wet pebbles. Not as fine-tuned and deep as the other wines in this flight. Slightly boastful but has good identity, fascinating and tasty. 17.5/20 (2266 views) | | | Tasted by drwine2001 on 12/4/2007: Light golden color. Complicated array of honey and dry sherry tones, in a way more like a Savennieres than a Vouvray aromatically. Terrific minerality and acid on the palate, with citrus and marmalade fruit. For me, it did not all come together, and we had some disagreement as to whether the wine had peaked or had some life ahead of it. Here, some residual sugar would have helped the balance, I think. (1182 views) | | | Tasted by jlm on 11/12/2006: Loire at Bill's (Bill's): Gold color betrays the age on this. It has an oxidized/sherry-like aroma at first pour and then becomes sweet and concentrated, with some botrytis-influenced raisins showing. Not much complexity though. This was rich and concentrated on the palate, with too little acidity for its ripeness. It did show better balance upon returning to it half an hour or so later. The finish was not very complex. This did seem to settle down into a more complex wine with time, but I don't have anything in my notes from the second taste. (2502 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
|
