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Sunday, February 1, 2015 - Loved it. It is expensive at £28 British sterling - from The Wine Society - but it is a 'special occasion' wine after all. Tasted Christmas 2014, so good bottle age. It still retains enough acidity to suggest it will further develop in the cellar, but to be honest I liked the slight freshness of the acid now to balance that glorious mature Chenin fruit. I have one further bottle, and I won't be keeping it much longer. In a small comparative tasting, I had it alongside a Millton's Chenin Blanc 2013 from New Zealand, the Huet Vouvray being twice the price. That's fine, it's twice the wine! Impressive intensity, power and charm, lovely orange stone-fruit, on the heavy side of medium bodied, a nice citrus edge to the Chenin flavours, honey too, this is big white wine which needs to be well chilled. There is an earthy terroir impression to this wine, a charming aspect you get from top whites from the Loire. When I open my remaining bottle of the Huet 2008 I will put it up against NZ's Astrolabe Wrekin Vineyard Chenin Blanc (approx £12), asides from the Millton's my go-to NZ Chenin.

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