Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Mont Sec 2016 er en flott tørr chenin blanc, gul på farge, som har fått dybde etter en del år i kjelleren og har duft av epler, grønt gress, hasselnøtter, bivoks og honning. (Litt uorganiserte dufter i starten men samlet seg nydelig i decanteren) Litt passe fet i munnen med flott fylde og livlig friskhet og lang lengde. Altså, som før sagt, drikk mer chenin, en magisk drue som lagrer SÅ bra! Gikk perfekt sammen med smørstekt brosme med soyasmør, stekt nykål og ristene gresskarfrø✨
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This was the second bottle of this wine, and the previous wine (10.09.2023) was oxidized. Prematurely? That was the question then, and the answer is here: Yes, it was. This wine is much lighter in colour. There is no hint of apple core or the like. Rather, there is lanolin, some fresh and fruity citrus. Rather typical Chenin Blanc of moderate age. In the mouth the fruit is supple and fine, and the acidity is fresh and bracing, and not too domineering. In short, this is an excellent wine that shows up its brother as a deeply flawed individual. I do suspect that the producer has fallen for the 'low sulphur ideology.' That is a risk taken by the producer on behalf of the consumer, and thus despicable. For the future, I shall drink my Huëts much earlier and/or find alternative producers with a more palatable (pardon the pun) ideology.
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My first Huet and possibly my first Vouvray, I can’t completely recall. Intense, sinus-clearing aroma. On its own, super-sharp acidity jousts with a touch of residual sugar. Paired with horseradish-mustard chicken thighs, it came into perfect balance.This might be an acquired taste but I can see the potential for substantial aging.
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Deep golden. Suspiciously deep golden. Aromas of apple core and apple peel strengthen the suspicions. However, there's plenty of fruit in the wine. While there is apple core taste, there's also lanolin and citrus. And: There's no bitterness to the taste or aftertaste. Everything but the age suggests mature oxidation rather than premature oxidation. I reserve judgment, and I'm very apprehensive about the next (and last) bottle.
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Rather oxidized aromas, but also some Chenin Blanc stuff here. Quite elegant on the palate. But the oxidation was surprisingly severe for such a young wine.
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A delicious wine, precise and unashamedly distinctive with its potent wet wool nose, waxy mouthfeel and insistently piquant fruit. No trace of oxidation, just beautiful development. The quintessence of Chenin Blanc?
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Coravin. Golden color, about appropriate for its age; high intensity aromatics, waxy, lanolin, peach, quince, stone fruits, wooly; palate is medium bodied, dry, medium-plus acidity which builds through the palate, surprisingly precise and driven for a wine with so much density on the nose, a bit of minerality with some quince; finish is medium-long. This is seriously good, well balanced and showing all the character I expect from Le Mont with exceptional aromatics as well. 92-93
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Slightly oxidized bottle. Plush and creamy with butterscotch. Still expressive with good acidity but this bottle had tipped and won’t last too long. I’ve had similar experiences with 2014.
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Oxidized, prematurely. Two consecutive bottles of 2016, both oxidized (One Le Mont and one Clos du Bourg). I have loved Huet Sec wines for a long time but this is concerning. What changed? Has there been a recent change in winemaking?
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Sampled via Coravin to compare our previous experience. Worlds apart from the first bottle of this case. That bottle, in retrospect, was prematurely oxidized. This tastes much closer to my recent sample of 2021 Le Mont Sec, except slightly softer, more open, and more apricot than lemon/lime.
This pour is a rich gold, but much lighter in color than before. The nose is all apricot and beeswax, showing none of the earlier bottle’s honey or aged cheese notes. It is much crisper on the palate with a pleasant chalkiness and loads of Granny Smith, pear and lemon drop, medium-bodied, with bracing acidity. The finish marches on and on, with tart citric notes, reminiscent of finishing a sour candy.
I absolutely love Huet and the Le Mont Sec. I was disappointed by the previous bottle and now I know why. This sample was much more like the Le Mont Sec that I know and love.
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Poured a deep golden color, almost orange tinged. Honey, baked apple, and a little cheddar cheese funk on the nose. I am getting Sauternes vibes here.
It’s bright and delicious on the palate with great, vibrant acidity and only a slight sweetness. Peach and lemon flavors primarily. Not getting the minerality I remember loving from the 2014. This is the oldest Huet I’ve tasted, and I think I may just have a preference for drinking it younger, at its most lively and primary stage. Will have to try a bottle of the 2021 this weekend and decide.
Edit: I took a sample from a second bottle of this same case via Coravin, and it’s COMPLETELY different; much younger and closer to the 2021. The color was much lighter gold, and it lacked any of the baked fruit and honey notes. This leads me to believe this bottle was prematurely oxidized. I am removing my score and marking it as flawed.
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Based on 2013 bottles, which showed similar characteristics but developed wonderfully, this wine is probably in its tunnel right now. Not very attractive today where it has lost its young fruit but not developed any maturity characteristics. I will wait five years before opening the next one.
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Pnp, then retasted two hour after decantation, 14°C in Zalto, virgin palate. Pure gold hue, exactly the Federal bank gold bar. Nose so nice: baked apples, old apricot jam, veirveina, honey and citronella. Mouth like a brezze in summer with hay, dried apricot, citronelle, granit, finishing mineral and dry with a note of green tea. Excellent. Potential ? Certainly more.
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Poured alongside the 2016 Sandlands Chenin Blanc “California” designation as a sort of fun side-by-side. The “Le Mont” pours a bright golden color. Medium+ intensity with some oxidative notes of cheese rind along with bright apple, white flowers, and hay. On the palate, pear, ginger and minerals with medium++ acid. Long finish. Some people loved it (I dug it). Others couldn’t drink it. Either way, I don’t think the oxidative notes were intended so I’m marking this as flawed.
Just what I expect from a Huet sec: lightness on the palate, superb balance, background flavors of quince and honey, and a clean finish. Could I have reliably identified this as Le Mont? Not sure, but I think I could have nailed Huet blindfolded.
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Coravin. Light golden; aromatic, apple, quince, slightly wooly; palate is medium-full bodied, medium-plus acidity, white fruits, peach, quince; medium length finish. A classic youthful Huet sec, perhaps a little light on the minerality for a Le Mont and not quite as complex as a 2015 I had recently. 90
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Delicious, just entering its drinking window. The acidity is generous but harmonious, lending this wine an ability to mate well with many foods. This wine, and others from that producer, are difficult to obtain where I live, but I'd collect and consume much more Huet wine if I could get it. Highly recommended. These wines age gracefully for years.
Edit: On day 2, this wine is intensely apple-y, more so than any wine I can recall tasting. It's almost like drinking freshly pressed apple juice!!
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Now a perfect bottle, but perhaps still aging a bit faster than the Old Boys might be expecting it to (I keep hearing references to 20 year old Chenin). On the nose, notes of honeysuckle and mint, while in the mouth this has developed a more honeyed note on the front end which transitions to ripe apple on the finish. Reflecting perhaps the warm year in 2016, this verges on unctuous in the mouth, coating the mid-palate with honeyed herbal extract enlivened by healthy acidity as the inner mouth perfume slowly evolves.
Presumably because of the modest bottle age and the warm year, this Le Mont comes across a bit more like the Huet Clos du Bourg in a good year (e.g., 2019). In other words, some of the characteristic stoniness and linearity of the Le Mont (reflecting the Silex soil) has given way to a broader, more expansive herbal/floral character that, tasted blind, might call the CdB to mind...
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Too bad, my first premox bottle of the 2016 Huet le Mont Sec. All other bottles have been excellent, crunchy orchard fruit, herbal notes, and a fine gingery note on the back end. But the problems with this one were evident immediately based on the color (it turns out a good spectrophotometer would tell you what you need to know about premox). Definitely advanced, and sliding downhill with time in the glass. Too bad they did not use Diam...
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We all loved this as it was comped, delicious, dry and paired well with our pork. Beginnings of honeysuckle notes in the background, but still juicy acidity.
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More oxidative on the nose than I expected, the classic chenin apple flavors, incredible balance with high acidity and some sugar. The sweetness was quite surprising but still tart and wih good potential.
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Had in OBX. N tropical fruit, funky minerals, little floral P yellow apple, quince, marzipan, lanolin, funky minerals F above average finish, solid acidity, and good mouthfeel
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Golden yellow Very light on the nose, yellow fruit, apples and some minerality. On the palate high acidity,a bit tart. A bit citrus but not much taste.
So much less than tha last bottle, I guess it in a down phase right now.
Wait a couple of year for the next?
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Still electric after 15 months. This is starting to go into hibernation, but it has a decadent mouthfeel with bruised apples and nervous energy. I should be buying this stuff by the truckload.
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Frustratingly, I didn't read my tasting note from last summer before popping open a bottle of this again, and had a worst experience than last time. This was very tart, with only shades of yellow apple, peach, and some lanolin poking through a mostly puckering palette. Not enjoying our first glasses, we decided to close it up and try the second night. It was a bit better, but I think I'm of the opinion that Huet's Vouvrays don't begin to show why people love them so much until they're at least 7-10 years old.
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Medium hay in color, lovely rocky Chenin nose, great intensity of pure, clean fruit, very fresh and crisp, with nice notes of saline tartness and granite minerality that dominates the finish. Very nice.
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bright golden, hint of viscosity on the nose; yellow ripe apples, wet wool, beeswax, sweet nutty notes, mineral on the palate; high acidity, a bit oily, marzipan, a tiny bit sticky - like grape. round, well balanced and an very enjoyable
Drinks beautiful now, on the other hand - have never tasted an old chenin....
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Young but absolutely electric. Perfectly balanced with zingy acidity and citrus & apricot notes. The texture is seductive and glides across the palate like silk. I don’t know that I will be able to resist the siren call of my remaining bottles.
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Quite good... pale gold, with a nose of lemons and honey, wax, perhaps just a hint of cloves. Off-dry and richly flavorful with a ripe, fruity sweetness that perhaps is a notch over my ideal level of r.s., melon and limestone on the long palate.
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Way too young right now. Very muted flavors of yellow fruit, beeswax, lanolin, and a tad bit of ginger candy. Frustratingly closed for most of dinner, there was a glimmer after 2 hours of the complexity that Huet usually gets out of his wines. Would not open a bottle of this stuff for at least another 3-4 years.
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Blind tasting. Brief note. Shut down nose and slightly muted palate of tropical fruits, lemon, waxiness, bitter grapefruit pith and orange peel. With time this really opened up and gained good weight alongside absolutely searing acidity. This is a terrific wine with plenty of potential.
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golden straw color. Nose apple skin, light wax. Palate orange/citrus fruity depth, good acidity, opens up some with time. Nice but obviously still young. 91 pts for now
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Quince, almond and a crunchy, oyster shell texture. Very good+ weight makes it seem so rich, but piercing acidity middle through finish makes this seem so elegant. I agree 100% with Phil’s TN from a week ago. Tasty now, but definitely upside from here.
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More often than not, when I drink a Huet Sec I wonder (1) why I don't buy more, and (2) why I mess around with buying so many expensive wines that don't deliver at this level. This hits so many of the right notes. It's got classic chenin notes, depth and body, a great mineral component, and acidity in spades. It's young, but that's known going in. Really good.
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Golden yellow Nose: yellow fruit, honey, minerals, bread/oak, some flowers? Thinking of a aged champagne... Taste: well balanced, high accidity, almost some sweet notes of pear?
Really nice!
+24h Petroleum/rubber, almond, sea-notes, mineral,citrus More on the palate, long aftertaste, honey. Once again champagne...
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Pears, grapefruit, ginger, and some minerality. Well balanced with a long finish. I do not have a lot of experience with this wine, but I think we're going to wait a few years before opening another bottle.
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local store did not have the wine spectator top 10 demi sec, so decided to try this drier version from the same producer. Delicious minerality and earth with just a touch of sweetness went well with an asian clay pot chicken
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Huet 2016 horizontal (Ashish's): Medium straw color. Relatively neutral. More apply than the Haut-Lieu - slight oxidation, with some bruised peach as well. Some leesy qualities - moist bready notes. Dry - maybe slight RS - usually around 7g? Slightly elevated alcohol - 13%. Apply and expansive on the midpalate with high acid - more tart and malic than the Haut-Lieu. Medium tart finish.
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Huet 2016 Horizontal (San Francisco, CA): Nice aromatics, a bit denser than the Le Haut Lieu, notable quince throughout the nose, still excellent minerality underlying everything; palate is medium bodied, excellent rich texture, medium-plus acidity, less shrill and acid-forward than the Haut Lieu, apple fruit throughout; finish is medium-long, longer than the Haut Lieu. 92+
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Delicious. Brilliant, crisp, a flowery note on the nose, and a dusty minerality on the palate.
I drank the 2015 only yesterday, and the comparison is fascinating. This younger vintage is more approachable, with a surprisingly complex and developed fruit profile for such a young wine.
Rated 2 on a scale of -1 to 3.
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New Release Huet Vouvray, Mostly 2016 (Dig Wines, San Francisco): More fruit driven than the Haut Lieu with typical pear. This feels more complete and has a layer of Chenin Blanc glycerine that its stablemate does not, but again, the concentration and definition of fruit do not wow you.
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Needs time for sure, lots of minerals, citrus stone fruits on the nose, similar palate with medium plus acidity, length and generous fruit and stone notes throughout
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Domaine Huet with Sarah Hwang (Armit Wines): Seemed very closed, much more so than the Haut-Lieu and even the Clos du Bourg tasted just before. Some tangy fruit can be coaxed out of the finish with very high acidity.
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I'm often the first to post on Huet. I'm used to. This 2016 is a nice discover a usual. A real chenin, mineral and energical. But, this vintage is showing light residual sugar, big bitterness and the usual acidity needed. Already the flavours are colored (witch early tastings of previous vintage were not)
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4/6/2024 - Vanja1 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Mont Sec 2016 er en flott tørr chenin blanc, gul på farge, som har fått dybde etter en del år i kjelleren og har duft av epler, grønt gress, hasselnøtter, bivoks og honning. (Litt uorganiserte dufter i starten men samlet seg nydelig i decanteren) Litt passe fet i munnen med flott fylde og livlig friskhet og lang lengde. Altså, som før sagt, drikk mer chenin, en magisk drue som lagrer SÅ bra! Gikk perfekt sammen med smørstekt brosme med soyasmør, stekt nykål og ristene gresskarfrø✨
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2/13/2024 - olemski wrote: 87 Points
This was the second bottle of this wine, and the previous wine (10.09.2023) was oxidized. Prematurely? That was the question then, and the answer is here: Yes, it was. This wine is much lighter in colour. There is no hint of apple core or the like. Rather, there is lanolin, some fresh and fruity citrus. Rather typical Chenin Blanc of moderate age. In the mouth the fruit is supple and fine, and the acidity is fresh and bracing, and not too domineering. In short, this is an excellent wine that shows up its brother as a deeply flawed individual. I do suspect that the producer has fallen for the 'low sulphur ideology.' That is a risk taken by the producer on behalf of the consumer, and thus despicable. For the future, I shall drink my Huëts much earlier and/or find alternative producers with a more palatable (pardon the pun) ideology.
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11/29/2023 - tenor12bucks Likes this wine: 92 Points
My first Huet and possibly my first Vouvray, I can’t completely recall. Intense, sinus-clearing aroma. On its own, super-sharp acidity jousts with a touch of residual sugar. Paired with horseradish-mustard chicken thighs, it came into perfect balance.This might be an acquired taste but I can see the potential for substantial aging.
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11/4/2023 - rosuoter wrote: flawed
Premoxed.
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9/10/2023 - olemski wrote: 82 Points
Deep golden. Suspiciously deep golden. Aromas of apple core and apple peel strengthen the suspicions. However, there's plenty of fruit in the wine. While there is apple core taste, there's also lanolin and citrus. And: There's no bitterness to the taste or aftertaste. Everything but the age suggests mature oxidation rather than premature oxidation. I reserve judgment, and I'm very apprehensive about the next (and last) bottle.
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9/9/2023 - AudunG wrote: 84 Points
Rather oxidized aromas, but also some Chenin Blanc stuff here. Quite elegant on the palate. But the oxidation was surprisingly severe for such a young wine.
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8/10/2023 - NickA Likes this wine: 92 Points
A delicious wine, precise and unashamedly distinctive with its potent wet wool nose, waxy mouthfeel and insistently piquant fruit. No trace of oxidation, just beautiful development. The quintessence of Chenin Blanc?
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6/17/2023 - cshouston wrote: flawed
Premox yet again. 2 out of 3 bottles of the 2016. What a shame.
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5/25/2023 - aagrawal wrote: 93 Points
Coravin. Golden color, about appropriate for its age; high intensity aromatics, waxy, lanolin, peach, quince, stone fruits, wooly; palate is medium bodied, dry, medium-plus acidity which builds through the palate, surprisingly precise and driven for a wine with so much density on the nose, a bit of minerality with some quince; finish is medium-long. This is seriously good, well balanced and showing all the character I expect from Le Mont with exceptional aromatics as well. 92-93
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5/24/2023 - jviz wrote:
Slightly oxidized bottle. Plush and creamy with butterscotch. Still expressive with good acidity but this bottle had tipped and won’t last too long. I’ve had similar experiences with 2014.
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11/21/2022 - tzelmer wrote: flawed
Oxidized, prematurely. Two consecutive bottles of 2016, both oxidized (One Le Mont and one Clos du Bourg). I have loved Huet Sec wines for a long time but this is concerning. What changed? Has there been a recent change in winemaking?
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11/6/2022 - cshouston Likes this wine: 94 Points
Sampled via Coravin to compare our previous experience. Worlds apart from the first bottle of this case. That bottle, in retrospect, was prematurely oxidized. This tastes much closer to my recent sample of 2021 Le Mont Sec, except slightly softer, more open, and more apricot than lemon/lime.
This pour is a rich gold, but much lighter in color than before. The nose is all apricot and beeswax, showing none of the earlier bottle’s honey or aged cheese notes. It is much crisper on the palate with a pleasant chalkiness and loads of Granny Smith, pear and lemon drop, medium-bodied, with bracing acidity. The finish marches on and on, with tart citric notes, reminiscent of finishing a sour candy.
I absolutely love Huet and the Le Mont Sec. I was disappointed by the previous bottle and now I know why. This sample was much more like the Le Mont Sec that I know and love.
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11/2/2022 - cshouston Likes this wine: flawed
PLEASE SEE EDIT; PREMOX
Poured a deep golden color, almost orange tinged. Honey, baked apple, and a little cheddar cheese funk on the nose. I am getting Sauternes vibes here.
It’s bright and delicious on the palate with great, vibrant acidity and only a slight sweetness. Peach and lemon flavors primarily. Not getting the minerality I remember loving from the 2014. This is the oldest Huet I’ve tasted, and I think I may just have a preference for drinking it younger, at its most lively and primary stage. Will have to try a bottle of the 2021 this weekend and decide.
Edit: I took a sample from a second bottle of this same case via Coravin, and it’s COMPLETELY different; much younger and closer to the 2021. The color was much lighter gold, and it lacked any of the baked fruit and honey notes. This leads me to believe this bottle was prematurely oxidized. I am removing my score and marking it as flawed.
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9/3/2022 - perwendin wrote:
Based on 2013 bottles, which showed similar characteristics but developed wonderfully, this wine is probably in its tunnel right now. Not very attractive today where it has lost its young fruit but not developed any maturity characteristics. I will wait five years before opening the next one.
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7/25/2022 - dead puddle Likes this wine: 93 Points
Pnp, then retasted two hour after decantation, 14°C in Zalto, virgin palate. Pure gold hue, exactly the Federal bank gold bar. Nose so nice: baked apples, old apricot jam, veirveina, honey and citronella. Mouth like a brezze in summer with hay, dried apricot, citronelle, granit, finishing mineral and dry with a note of green tea. Excellent. Potential ? Certainly more.
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4/16/2022 - kanowsky Likes this wine: 96 Points
WOW! Tremendous body, slate, long finish, grassy. A Chenin Blanc highlight.
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12/24/2021 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Similar notes as previous tasting. Citrus, pears, green apple, and some minerality. Well balanced, nice acidity, and a long finish.
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11/28/2021 - thesternowl wrote: flawed
Poured alongside the 2016 Sandlands Chenin Blanc “California” designation as a sort of fun side-by-side. The “Le Mont” pours a bright golden color. Medium+ intensity with some oxidative notes of cheese rind along with bright apple, white flowers, and hay. On the palate, pear, ginger and minerals with medium++ acid. Long finish. Some people loved it (I dug it). Others couldn’t drink it. Either way, I don’t think the oxidative notes were intended so I’m marking this as flawed.
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11/9/2021 - MLipton wrote:
Just what I expect from a Huet sec: lightness on the palate, superb balance, background flavors of quince and honey, and a clean finish. Could I have reliably identified this as Le Mont? Not sure, but I think I could have nailed Huet blindfolded.
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8/6/2021 - skifree wrote: flawed
Oxidized
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7/4/2021 - aagrawal wrote: 90 Points
Coravin. Light golden; aromatic, apple, quince, slightly wooly; palate is medium-full bodied, medium-plus acidity, white fruits, peach, quince; medium length finish. A classic youthful Huet sec, perhaps a little light on the minerality for a Le Mont and not quite as complex as a 2015 I had recently. 90
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2/6/2021 - Swaggering Beaunie Likes this wine:
Delicious, just entering its drinking window. The acidity is generous but harmonious, lending this wine an ability to mate well with many foods. This wine, and others from that producer, are difficult to obtain where I live, but I'd collect and consume much more Huet wine if I could get it. Highly recommended. These wines age gracefully for years.
Edit: On day 2, this wine is intensely apple-y, more so than any wine I can recall tasting. It's almost like drinking freshly pressed apple juice!!
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1/10/2021 - CSteefel Likes this wine: 93 Points
Now a perfect bottle, but perhaps still aging a bit faster than the Old Boys might be expecting it to (I keep hearing references to 20 year old Chenin). On the nose, notes of honeysuckle and mint, while in the mouth this has developed a more honeyed note on the front end which transitions to ripe apple on the finish. Reflecting perhaps the warm year in 2016, this verges on unctuous in the mouth, coating the mid-palate with honeyed herbal extract enlivened by healthy acidity as the inner mouth perfume slowly evolves.
Presumably because of the modest bottle age and the warm year, this Le Mont comes across a bit more like the Huet Clos du Bourg in a good year (e.g., 2019). In other words, some of the characteristic stoniness and linearity of the Le Mont (reflecting the Silex soil) has given way to a broader, more expansive herbal/floral character that, tasted blind, might call the CdB to mind...
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1/8/2021 - CSteefel wrote: flawed
Too bad, my first premox bottle of the 2016 Huet le Mont Sec. All other bottles have been excellent, crunchy orchard fruit, herbal notes, and a fine gingery note on the back end. But the problems with this one were evident immediately based on the color (it turns out a good spectrophotometer would tell you what you need to know about premox). Definitely advanced, and sliding downhill with time in the glass. Too bad they did not use Diam...
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11/7/2020 - jmoon Likes this wine: 94 Points
We all loved this as it was comped, delicious, dry and paired well with our pork. Beginnings of honeysuckle notes in the background, but still juicy acidity.
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8/23/2020 - afot Likes this wine:
More oxidative on the nose than I expected, the classic chenin apple flavors, incredible balance with high acidity and some sugar. The sweetness was quite surprising but still tart and wih good potential.
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6/13/2020 - manonthemoon wrote: 92 Points
Had in OBX.
N tropical fruit, funky minerals, little floral
P yellow apple, quince, marzipan, lanolin, funky minerals
F above average finish, solid acidity, and good mouthfeel
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5/29/2020 - kstoddard wrote: flawed
Corked
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5/9/2020 - John Ostling wrote: 89 Points
Golden yellow
Very light on the nose, yellow fruit, apples and some minerality.
On the palate high acidity,a bit tart. A bit citrus but not much taste.
So much less than tha last bottle, I guess it in a down phase right now.
Wait a couple of year for the next?
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2/14/2020 - MrOctoberfest Likes this wine:
Still electric after 15 months. This is starting to go into hibernation, but it has a decadent mouthfeel with bruised apples and nervous energy. I should be buying this stuff by the truckload.
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10/26/2019 - D'Yquembe Mutumbo wrote: 89 Points
Frustratingly, I didn't read my tasting note from last summer before popping open a bottle of this again, and had a worst experience than last time. This was very tart, with only shades of yellow apple, peach, and some lanolin poking through a mostly puckering palette. Not enjoying our first glasses, we decided to close it up and try the second night. It was a bit better, but I think I'm of the opinion that Huet's Vouvrays don't begin to show why people love them so much until they're at least 7-10 years old.
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4/18/2019 - alanr Likes this wine: 92 Points
Medium hay in color, lovely rocky Chenin nose, great intensity of pure, clean fruit, very fresh and crisp, with nice notes of saline tartness and granite minerality that dominates the finish. Very nice.
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3/31/2019 - John Ostling Likes this wine: 93 Points
bright golden, hint of viscosity
on the nose; yellow ripe apples, wet wool, beeswax, sweet nutty notes, mineral
on the palate; high acidity, a bit oily, marzipan, a tiny bit sticky - like grape. round, well balanced and an very enjoyable
Drinks beautiful now, on the other hand - have never tasted an old chenin....
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10/27/2018 - MrOctoberfest Likes this wine:
Young but absolutely electric. Perfectly balanced with zingy acidity and citrus & apricot notes. The texture is seductive and glides across the palate like silk. I don’t know that I will be able to resist the siren call of my remaining bottles.
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9/8/2018 - KPB wrote: 90 Points
Quite good... pale gold, with a nose of lemons and honey, wax, perhaps just a hint of cloves. Off-dry and richly flavorful with a ripe, fruity sweetness that perhaps is a notch over my ideal level of r.s., melon and limestone on the long palate.
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7/30/2018 - D'Yquembe Mutumbo wrote: 91 Points
Way too young right now. Very muted flavors of yellow fruit, beeswax, lanolin, and a tad bit of ginger candy. Frustratingly closed for most of dinner, there was a glimmer after 2 hours of the complexity that Huet usually gets out of his wines. Would not open a bottle of this stuff for at least another 3-4 years.
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7/13/2018 - Bearbus Likes this wine:
Salty, sweet-sour, honey, hints of mercaptan, quince, crème fraiche, wonderful balance, mouthgasm-ing acidity, sage and saltbush finish. Lovely
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5/7/2018 - ESTEELE90 Likes this wine:
Blind tasting. Brief note. Shut down nose and slightly muted palate of tropical fruits, lemon, waxiness, bitter grapefruit pith and orange peel. With time this really opened up and gained good weight alongside absolutely searing acidity. This is a terrific wine with plenty of potential.
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5/6/2018 - EMichels wrote: 89 Points
Medium rich; Slightly thick; Riesling-like; Great tropical fruit
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5/6/2018 - fred o. Likes this wine:
golden straw color. Nose apple skin, light wax. Palate orange/citrus fruity depth, good acidity, opens up some with time. Nice but obviously still young. 91 pts for now
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4/28/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Quince, almond and a crunchy, oyster shell texture. Very good+ weight makes it seem so rich, but piercing acidity middle through finish makes this seem so elegant. I agree 100% with Phil’s TN from a week ago. Tasty now, but definitely upside from here.
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4/20/2018 - psmith wrote: 93 Points
More often than not, when I drink a Huet Sec I wonder (1) why I don't buy more, and (2) why I mess around with buying so many expensive wines that don't deliver at this level. This hits so many of the right notes. It's got classic chenin notes, depth and body, a great mineral component, and acidity in spades. It's young, but that's known going in. Really good.
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4/6/2018 - John Ostling Likes this wine: 90 Points
Golden yellow
Nose: yellow fruit, honey, minerals, bread/oak, some flowers? Thinking of a aged champagne...
Taste: well balanced, high accidity, almost some sweet notes of pear?
Really nice!
+24h
Petroleum/rubber, almond, sea-notes, mineral,citrus
More on the palate, long aftertaste, honey. Once again champagne...
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2/10/2018 - Chasse_spleen Likes this wine: 92 Points
Excellent. Clear and focused. Melon and citrus in the nose, rounded taste. Very elegant.
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12/24/2017 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Pears, grapefruit, ginger, and some minerality. Well balanced with a long finish. I do not have a lot of experience with this wine, but I think we're going to wait a few years before opening another bottle.
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11/19/2017 - bugdoced wrote: 92 Points
local store did not have the wine spectator top 10 demi sec, so decided to try this drier version from the same producer. Delicious minerality and earth with just a touch of sweetness went well with an asian clay pot chicken
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10/15/2017 - RajivAyyangar wrote: 88 Points
Huet 2016 horizontal (Ashish's): Medium straw color.
Relatively neutral. More apply than the Haut-Lieu - slight oxidation, with some bruised peach as well. Some leesy qualities - moist bready notes.
Dry - maybe slight RS - usually around 7g? Slightly elevated alcohol - 13%.
Apply and expansive on the midpalate with high acid - more tart and malic than the Haut-Lieu. Medium tart finish.
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10/15/2017 - aagrawal wrote: 92 Points
Huet 2016 Horizontal (San Francisco, CA): Nice aromatics, a bit denser than the Le Haut Lieu, notable quince throughout the nose, still excellent minerality underlying everything; palate is medium bodied, excellent rich texture, medium-plus acidity, less shrill and acid-forward than the Haut Lieu, apple fruit throughout; finish is medium-long, longer than the Haut Lieu. 92+
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10/12/2017 - IJC Likes this wine:
Delicious.
Brilliant, crisp, a flowery note on the nose, and a dusty minerality on the palate.
I drank the 2015 only yesterday, and the comparison is fascinating. This younger vintage is more approachable, with a surprisingly complex and developed fruit profile for such a young wine.
Rated 2 on a scale of -1 to 3.
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9/29/2017 - drwine2001 wrote:
New Release Huet Vouvray, Mostly 2016 (Dig Wines, San Francisco): More fruit driven than the Haut Lieu with typical pear. This feels more complete and has a layer of Chenin Blanc glycerine that its stablemate does not, but again, the concentration and definition of fruit do not wow you.
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9/17/2017 - eoinhharkins wrote: 92 Points
Needs time for sure, lots of minerals, citrus stone fruits on the nose, similar palate with medium plus acidity, length and generous fruit and stone notes throughout
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8/8/2017 - bags wrote:
At Winslow's in Wellfleet. even this young, excellent with oysters. but needs years to develop. better at the end.
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6/14/2017 - Lord of the Bottles wrote:
Domaine Huet with Sarah Hwang (Armit Wines): Seemed very closed, much more so than the Haut-Lieu and even the Clos du Bourg tasted just before. Some tangy fruit can be coaxed out of the finish with very high acidity.
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6/14/2017 - dead puddle wrote: 91 Points
Much precise after decantation, big stucture based on bitterness and minerality. Mains flavours are limetree, orange peal, rhubarb. Long after taste.
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5/30/2017 - dead puddle wrote:
I'm often the first to post on Huet. I'm used to. This 2016 is a nice discover a usual. A real chenin, mineral and energical. But, this vintage is showing light residual sugar, big bitterness and the usual acidity needed. Already the flavours are colored (witch early tastings of previous vintage were not)
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