August 21, 2023 - Brought to a tasting. Didn't take notes, but this was a nice sec style that had good, ripe acidity and a mix of mainly stonefruit/tropical notes and some citrus flavours. Nice balance. I would drink up fairly soon, but no great rush (A-).
April 5, 2023 - Farewell to my final bottle of the 2007. Held onto this for over a decade, too. Honeysuckle and hint of petrol. Great concentration, with honey and peach, crushed apple and a persistent finish. There is some riper edges to this wine, yet the freshness and how this shows great life at 15 years is a cool testament to how these can age.
November 24, 2022 - Not drunk under ideal circumstances: not great glassware, some distractions, so only general impressions. Drinking well, with good aromatic expressiveness and a touch more sweetness than one might expect for a sec. Seems youthful still.
June 7, 2021 - Pure aromas of crushed flint, citrus, blanched almonds and white peach burst out of the glass. A stunning mouth follows with outstanding complexity of flavors, displaying perfect balance between sweetness of fruit, acidity, salinity and minerality. The sappy and mineral inflected mid palate finishes with outstanding length. A real stunner, ready to drink on its vivacious qualities, or to hold. Vouvray, Jasnieres or Savennieres can in warm years be as good as any white in France.
April 25, 2021 - Hazy notes from a couple of days ago. Rather closed at first, but it did eventually start to open, albeit in a somewhat grumpy fashion, into a medium bodied, refreshing, right on the edge of dry/off dry mix of honeysuckle, pear, apple and honeyed mineral notes. Nice balance to this. Didn't really scream chenin or Vouvray, but certainly was quite tasty with air. I'll wait a few years on my last bottle (A-).
March 19, 2021 - Medium yellow. Even after being open for an hour, an herbal aromatic component that spoke more of Sauvignon, but this died down to reveal more typical pear. Less body and glycerine than I usually find in Huet wines. Just off dry, verging on tart acidity, and imbued with soil. Fairly brisk and doing very well at 14 years of age.
December 11, 2020 - Tasted blind on first night, then revisited the following night (at which time I knew the wine's identity). This 2007 was paired with the 2019, so we had that cool contrast. One of our tasters in our Zoom group called out the wine as Chenin Blanc, and it was spot on. The 2007 is showing fresh with good color and no oxidation. Peach, orange, pineapple, lightly oily, with zippy citrus acid and cut apple in the finish. This is spot-on delicious and holding up well, forecasting a great future ahead. I've got one bottle of this left in my own cellar, and I am happy to know I can save it for the right moment, to enjoy the beauty that this vintage of Le Mont shows.
May 5, 2020 - Stony, wooly, waxy, lovely. Just a hint of sweetness, snappy acids, quite long. B+/A-
February 18, 2020 - Medium yellow. Citrus and a bit of cut flowers. Seemed like a true, somewhat austere sec to start out with high acidity, but it showed a bit of residual sugar and more texture as it warmed with nice herbal complexity to add a bit of interest and perhaps take it slightly more to the west of Tours in flavor profile.
December 11, 2019 - Fantastic bottle and one of the best whites I’ve had in forever. Amazing nose of red apple, white peach, maybe even a little strawberry, but also all sorts of flowers I can’t name. On the palate just a little chenin waxiness and a suggestion of honey. More prominent is the distinctive stoniness. Light but intense, with perfectly proportioned acidity on the finish. Theres a great interplay between all the elements, with tension but also a pleasing sort of sequence to the flavors. Lost some finesse on day 2, but still quite nice. Drink or hold, there’s no wrong choice here. Wish I had more.