Community Tasting Notes (65) Avg Score: 91.8 points

  • Remains impressive if unusual as described in my 2021 note. Concentration is remarkable. No signs of over-maturity but I think this will increasingly divide palates as it ages.

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  • A wonderfully complex, open and developed nose with ripe apricot-driven fruit, breakfast cereal, some iodine and plenty of wet wool. At amazing phase with very expressive fruit yet not really primary anymore. On the palate luscious and mouth-coating with richness that masks the acidity that is not at all lacking a bit. Ripe and vibrant with abundant fruit, the sweetness has toned down a lot but is not gone by any means. A hedonistic wine, flamboyant even, that drinks amazingly well right now. The sweetness will deteriorate even more but will it get better from here? Not for my palate I think. A great balance between concentration and crispness right now.

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  • A semi-dry wine from the original Le Haut-Lieu vineyard of Domaine Huet. Fermented spontaneously in old oak barrels and stainless steel. The fermentation is halted before the wine reaches dryness with racking and application of SO2. The MLF is blocked. 13,5% alcohol, 29,8 g/l residual sugar.

    Deep, luminous and moderately evolved burnished golden color. The nose feels big, complex and quite seductive with rich aromas of acacia honey and quince jam, some pineapple tones, a little bit of apricot, light evolved notes of bruised apples, a nutty hint of almonds and a developed touch of Chenin waxiness. The wine is firm, somewhat evolved and pretty crisp on the palate with a medium body and focused flavors of ripe red apple and quince jam, some stony mineral tones, a little bit of honeyed richness, light evolved nuances of waxiness and woolly lanolin, a hint of sweet tangerine and a touch of chalky bitterness. The wine is wonderfully structured and refreshing with its bright, high acidity, but the residual sugar serves as a wonderful foil to the acidity, masking its most incisive edge and lending some viscosity to the otherwise quite airy and relatively weightless overall feel. The finish is crisp, lively and palate-cleansing with a lengthy off-dry aftertaste of ripe lemony citrus fruits and incisive steely minerality, some bittersweet notes of quince jam and fresh orange, light honeyed tones, a little bit of waxy richness, a hint of ripe red apple and a touch of stony minerality.

    A fantastic, beautifully mature off-dry Vouvray that is in a magnificent spot right now, combining its refreshing acidity and almost angular mineral nuances with balanced richness from the residual sugar that never feels too sweet or overwhelming anything, only accentuating the ripe fruity flavors. Unlike some younger Huet Chenins, which can be wonderfully brisk and mineral but also rather linear and too straightforward in nature, this has picked up some wonderful developed complexity without losing its youthful vibrancy or turning too aged or tertiary in overall character. I'd say there is still quite a bit of room for further evolution, but the wine really doesn't call for any additional aging and even if the wine is going to be drinking beautifully for years more, I'm not sure whether the wine is going to actually improve from here or if any further evolution is going to be just lateral development. Whatever the case, the wine can be drunk now or kept for a good number of years more. A classy classic that is impossible not to love.

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  • So good! This has lost its youthful verve and has become a more mature, interesting wine. Orchard fruit on the nose with loads of savory and grassy notes. Waxy, viscous palate of ripe baked apple, orange, and some of the savory notes from the nose. Sweetness is there but so well balanced by the loads of acidity. Long finish.

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  • What a delicious and strange concoction. I'm a big fan of Huet wines but I've never had one before that smelled of lychees more than the bruised apple smell I'd anticipated. The palate was clean and quite well concentrated. Vouvray really suits a demi-sec style in my view as it was neither the sweetness nor acidity that left an impression but the sense of completeness and balance. Concentration without excess. I know that it is very difficult to anticipate the longevity of these wines, but if I had a concern I wondered if the fruit might start to hollow out within the next 5 years or so.

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  • Delicious honeysuckle with a lime finish. There is residual sugar but it’s on the razor’s edge with amped-up acidity. Really delicious Huet.

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  • First warning: the wine had seeped up through two thirds of the cork.

    The nose was very nice - strong raspberries and honeyed notes supported by dried stonefruits - maybe prunes?

    However, on the palate this was clearly faulty. Much too acidic and bitter. Slight sweetness but completely overpowered by the acidic and bitter tones.

    I’m a little confused by why the nose was still so nice - but the palate was nothing like the bottle tried two years ago.

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  • Cellaraid Discovery Box; 5/19/2017-5/26/2021 (Delivered to Home): Deep gold, with a very ripe nose of melon, carrot, and chives. Sweet, yet savoury and toasty and sharply acidic. Would have hoped that such a dessert wine is more luxurious.

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  • One of these was used at Wine Night - Vouvray.
    It was outstanding.
    No other details.

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  • Drunk at Niamh's 50th birthday dinner at Temple House in Sligo.

    Lost my nerve with this. Its very rich and sweet. Too sweet for the fish and shell fishes dishes served at dinner. Wish I'd chosen a sec.

    But the wine itself is excellent. Massive but excellent. Need to think about how to use it.

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  • Still very sweet. This wine is more suitable as a sipper than a food wine. Tastes a bit like apples with apple cider notes. I don't think this wine was tainted, but it just struck me as a bit odd.

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  • Nose was full of high-acid red berries, in particular raspberries and redcurrants. In addition, notes of beeswax and some creamy notes. Palate was soft, with notes of honey and apples, with a very refreshing acidity. Will be very interesting to follow this wine.

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  • Really stunning stuff. Super intense. Plenty of life ahead.

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  • Simply put, amazing! This had it all, even at this young stage. On the nose, it was full of white flowers, ripe yellow stone fruit, earthy mushrooms and truffles, honey/beeswax. On the palate, it was rich and opulent, with just enough acid to perfectly balance this wine. The fruit is really just perfectly ripe and there is a certain stony element as well. I can't remember having a better demi-sec. So young but so good. A profound chenin blanc experience. Will be great to watch this develop over the next few decades.

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  • Litigators' Wine Dinner (Tung Lok Signatures, Orchard Parade Hotel): Best bottle yet, this was slowly starting to open up. The nose was a lovely melange of oyster shells, lanolin, stone fruit and apple flesh, all drizzled with a bit of nectar. The palate was still youthful with honeyed sweetness, but it was starting to open up in layers of apples, stone fruit and honey leading into a long finish of lanolin and mineral notes. Lovely stuff - serious and full of character, yet fabulously enjoyable.

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  • In a great drinking window - but will keep for decades.

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  • Dim Sum Club at Mitzo (Mitzo, Grand Park Orchard): Developing nicely, this is a very pleasant wine with Dim Sum indeed. The nose was all lanolin and seashells speckled through honeyed pears and ripe apples, almost cider at points, and then a nice streak of minerality. Lovely. The palate was still on the young side, with sweet honeyed tones of fleshy pears and apples dominating. It did have an absolutely lovely sense of freshness and structure, especially obvious as the wine zoomed into a beautifully citrus and mineral finish. Lovely stuff, with decades to go.

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  • Opened by mistake and god we did. But needs much more time.

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  • Loire tasting - White, Red and Sweet: Butterscotch flavors with fresh acidity and slight sweetness. Light and elegant.

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  • This wine is just stunning. Much improved from 2 years ago. Ripe fruit, beeswax and honey. It showed beautifully on day 1, but really shined on day 2. Love the soft, rich texture, yet never felt heavy. So much going on here, and a long lingering finish. Very balanced. Gorgeous expression of pure chenin blanc.

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  • Nose of beeswax, white flowers, raisin. Great texture, waxy with a long finish. Great balance with acidity and citrus notes that cut through the slight sweetness that come from it. Even better after an hour of decant.

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  • Drank 1.5 years ago via coravin and opened the remaining half bottle today. Somewhat oxidized. Lost its sweetness. But still pretty drinkable... a testament to how well made this is.

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  • Je reprendrais les mots de Noël Pinguet pour résumer ce vin "Verticalité".

    Pour mémoire 29.8 gr S.R et 6.06 g d'acidité.
    Bouchon non entamé
    Robe : jaune brillante avec de belles larmes
    Nez : sur la pomme, le coing voire du zeste de citron.
    Bouche : Les sucres résiduels se font très légèrement sentir et sont soutenus par une grande acidité. L'acidité prenant le pas sur le sucre.
    Le vin a passé son stade d'adolescence fruité pour commencer à entamer une nouvelle phase.

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  • Beef at Kel's (Kelvin and Joyce's Place, Bishan): Enjoyable, but this has its best years ahead of it, probably a good 8-10 years or more into the future. Unlike the light, lithe 2007, which felt en pointe now, this came across richer, thicker, less developed, with honey, ripe apple and lanolin notes on the nose wed to similar flavours on the creamy palate. What I loved though was the bright, juicy acidity and the wonderfully minerally underpinning that marked this as a Huet Le Haut Lieu. Great finish too, dry, chalky, almost flinty mineral lancing trough the demi-sec honeyed tones. Lovely stuff, but there was still such a tight, unyielding core to the wine - this will last a long, long time.

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  • Minerally oyster-like aromas. Lots of flavour due to some really impressive acidity in the background. Lovely demi-sec style, not really any noticeable sugar but it just gives balance to that fantastic acid.

    This bottle is a little funky, but I really think that is just this bottle.

    Drink now until ?? long time I expect.

    13.5%ABV, sealed with cork.

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  • Nose offers fragrant quince, pear skin, apple juice, bergamot orange and sugar syrup. Palate is nicely poised between medium sweetness, acidity and a pleasantly bitter, extracted quality. The wine really sings its terroir and is instantly recognisable as Huet. Demi-sec is rapidly becoming my favourite Huet style.

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  • I'm not sure if this bottle is slightly oxidized or perhaps heat damaged, but this was a really bizarre showing. Freakish nose with corn, milk, and salt in the forefront, and a palate attack that reminds me a bit of some over the hill Alsatian whites I'd had from auction many years ago, which I surmised were scarred with acetyldehyde...but the odd thing is that the glass residuals of this wine smelled of prettier, fresh Chenin fruit. I figured that's where the wine is heading, and double decanted it then let it sit in a decanter for a half hour; at first it seemed to reduce the odd aromas on the nose, but ultimately couldn't really shake it from its odd aromatic core. I have no idea what the story really is here. From Rimmerman and properly cellared, so, no reason to think heat damage, but... odd indeed.

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  • Will have a long live and is super freaky at the moment. Super expressive!!! Love this shit ;-)

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  • A wonderful evening of Chenin. (Chez Kravitz- Old Saybrook): Another gorgeous showing and it still hasn’t shut down much. It’s pure quince, golden apple and mineral with medium sweetness and vivacious acidity. So alive and just a thrilling wine. Worked wonderfully with the black sea bass en papillote. A.

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  • Chenin Blancs @ the Kravitz (Old Saybrook): Just a fabulous wine, showing great focus and tension. Ripe apples, peaches and a touch of honey with strong minerality. Svelte and long.

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  • Such a well made wine! Delicious nots of cantaloupe, golden apple, with intoxicating mineral and floral undertones, great fruit on the palate with just the right balance of acidity to keep it fresh and persistent

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  • Maison Kayser - The Brad Kane Experience; 6/2/2015-6/6/2015: yellow apples, indian spices, opens up with time to show more orchard fruit. some sweetness and honey but obviously losing that and developing more minerality. nice long ripe finish. just delicious!

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  • A very impressive conclusion to this wonderful line-up of Huet wines. Wet wool, ripe fruit, bruised apples, quince(?) on the nose - slightly floral and musky too. On the palate a nice touch of sweetness at first, then the acidity takes over, quite bright and very vibrant. Lots of energy, wonderfully pure notes of citrus fruit. Very youthful and edgy, needs time but should evolve beautifully. 92-93+

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  • 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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  • Quince with a special tartness. This followed a meat with red-wine course and opened up with cheese and crackers. Very good QPR. Worth keeping in mind for other multi-wine meals.

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  • Coravin taste. So rich balanced and delicious. 93/94

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  • An immediately delicious wine, full of quince and honey, and a little rounder and more apparently sweet than the awesome Le Mont demi of this vintage. A generous wine that drinks well now and might not shut down at all, though I don't think it will have trouble hitting the 20yr mark, either. There's a strong ginger note here, as well, giving it a very Christmas-y feel.

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  • A Few Days in Paris; 6/10/2014-6/14/2014 (Various Locations, Paris): Light golden. Incredibly honeyed for a Demi-Sec. Ripe orange, even some apricot. Moderate sweetness, good tart acidity, only ding is that the finish falls and seems dilute. Overall, surprisingly good though.

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  • Tasted blind. Heavy, profound nose, honey, nutmeg, botrytis? Ripe Napa Chardonnay? I'm lost here. Medium dry on the palate, very long finish. I haven't got a clue. Too heavy for a Riesling but I'm lost. Good quality though, even if the profile is very challenging and not easy to love.

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  • Clear, deep golden colour.

    Clean, pronounced nose. Tropical fruit, papaya. Hint of olives.

    Full bodied, medium sweetness, high acidity. Milder tropical fruit than on the nose, still papaya.
    Long aftertaste with hints of pineapple.

    Very good(+) wine, well balanced.

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  • Vinbanken med Elke Ljung och Anders Röttorp (Magnusson Fine Wines): Misstankar om korkdefekt, men inte helt uppenbart eftersom vintypen (halvtorr Chenin Blanc) är outforskad mark för mig.
    Gyllengul färg. Söt doft som ledde tankarna till dijonsenap och räkskal (?) men också våt halm.
    Halvtorr med smak av ospädd apelsinsaft och andra citrusfrukter. Bra längd.

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  • Quite sweet by my taste. Wonderful length. Tastes of lemons, pineapple, and mango(?). Probably needs more bottle aging.

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  • Tasted at VINOSUS, Oslo, 18/3-14

    Ap: Medium dark golden yellow
    Ar: Rich tropical fruits, dried fruits and honey. Very good intensity.
    Full bodied, concentrated and beautiful sugar-acidity balance with a nice mineralitt on the palate
    Very, very good length

    50+5+13+17+9

    Besides the 2007 Huet demi-sec le mont, the best white of the day.

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  • Drinking very well on night 1. Starting to darken a bit and actually was a little worried on first sniff, but quickly came into focus. Beautiful honeyed nose with all kinds of earthly scents. Palate was very much riesling like on night one, but a very good one at that. Balance is there with acidity, fruit and nuance, looking forward to revisiting next few nights.

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  • Simply stunning and amazing. One of the best, if not the best, demi-sec I have ever tried. Will evolve beautifully

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  • Absolutely mind boggling wine - this is the type of wine that takes your breath away, the kind you get lost in, the kind words will never do justice. That being said, I'll do my best.

    The wine is a pale gold in the glass. The nose, at first, displays plenty of earthy aromas. Notes of gunpowder, dried porcini, fiddleheads, wet wool and bees wax. As it open up fruitier qualities start to show. Baked apple and pear, and a tropical note far in the background.

    The palate shows just how well a dash of sweetness can balance acidity. Fresh but with weight. Notes of dark sugar, white plum, tangerine, roasted hazel nut, candied lemon and dates.

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  • Honey and melon rind on the nose with a crisp palate including more honey notes and some citrus. Medium sweetness that slides into the clean, sweet finish. Great wine.

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  • All their recent dumb decisions aside, I continue to love Huet wines. This was just like the last bottle. Delicious deep and interesting. Too bad, as I think I am done buying them.

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  • Leaner than usual. The nose has nice honey and a hint of butter. The palate is viscous but has less sweetness by far than I expected. Stone fruits and honey comb but more on the waxy than honey side. Long and nice to drink but not what I expected.

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  • Beautiful golden color. Honey and petrol nose. Honey and apple or quince, with slight aprocot on the finish. Long finish. Etherial. 93/94

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  • Golden color. Nose is disturbingly advanced, with prominent apple cider notes. It tastes fresh on the palate though, intense green apple, pear and high acidity. Not sure what to make of this, it tastes good but I don't think it should smell oxidized at this point.

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  • Huet Dinner (Maysville): Sweet corn and creamed corn on the nose, with lots of tree fruit. Dense and concentrated, but backward and tannic with some leafy undergrowth flavors. Complex, with good potential, but needs time.

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  • Day one this was sharp and intense. Just a laser of apricot and honey. A few days in the fridge and the wine is transformed. The nose is amazing with white flowers, citrus peel, honey and even a hint of sage. The palate is clean and full of spiced honey, nectarine pit and more flowery notes. Delicious, crisp and long finish.

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  • Monthly tasting club LTC; Loire Valley, Vouvray (@ MvG): Very special bouquet with polishing wax, apricots and honey, and completely different from Sauternes. On the palate polishing wax as well. A lot of sweetness. Some nuts, a lot of yellow tropical fruits, ripe apples and some minerals. A complex wine with an enormous length. Maybe not completely my taste, but this certainly deserves a score of 91 for the moment. Will last for at least another decade (or two).

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  • Vacation Wines (Loire, Rhône, Jura) (Chez M.): Medium yellow. The nose is terrible. There are typical notes of candied ginger, ripe apricot, honey and quince. But there's an overriding pungent smell of chicken broth, asparagus water and cheese rind that makes the nose seriously hard to bear. Don't know what the problem is, but there is something wrong with the nose. On the palate, the wine is truly fantastic with a beautiful interplay of fruity sweetness and acidity, exotic notes (passion fruit) and great minerality. Really long finish.

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  • Light gold. A pungent nose of burnt caramel, sweet pastry- intriguing. On the palate it's quite a full apricot fruit with lemon and pepper on th incredibly long finish. This was tasted blind and was really good and once I knew it was Huet I was reassured I'd tasted a really good wine.

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  • Nose with citrus, yellow fruit, some mineral, perfume, a somewhat peculiar note that I would describe as earthy or possibly a bit truffle-like. Palate with good concentration, the impression is "off-dry minus", with citrus, high acidity, and a long aftertaste. Elegant palate, rather young, 89+ p
    Residual sugar 28 g/l.

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  • Like a glass of peaches with floral notes, with perfect balance between the sweetness and the acidity. Reasonably priced too.

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  • Pretty sure this bottle was flawed though it is my first demi-sec Huet so have nothing to compare it to. The unctuous, voluptuous honey/mango/ripe pear aroma that others' notes have mentioned was definitely there. But there was an over-riding perfumed (like artificial perfume) aroma/flavor that completely spoiled the wine. It was as if the dial on "white flowers" was turned way up to 100. This weird smell also sometimes reminded me of sweet french tobacco. This wasn't simply a nuance in the wine but almost completely dominated it. On the second day, it was still there and it made the wine undrinkable. :(

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  • Appealing nose of peach & white flowers, prominent acid on the palate with the slight sweetness acting as a somewhat weak counterpoint. On retasting the next day (drinking the rest of the refrigerated bottle), the palate was gorgeously delectable. A major league off-dry white wine.

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  • Las Vegas Locals Dinner at Lotus of Siam (Lotus of Siam - Las vegas, NV): Showing incredibly well. Beautiful melon and floral tones with fresh herbs. Palate was so elegant and silky - with subtle sweetness. What a value and a shining example why Huet may be the best French white wine producer for the money. Compelling wine.

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  • Intense and sweet on the nose with notes of quince, mango and sea buckthorn - some honeyed florals and a slight glueish nuance complimenting.
    Semi-sweet palate with bracing acidity kicking in. Full of vibrant fruit from sea buckthorns to apricots. Grapefruit zest bitterness and stony minerality. Endless.
    Just fantastic. Showing impeccable balance.

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  • Bright golden color. Tempting, incredibly fresh nose of apricot and honey among other things that I am not even able to describe. On the palate the wine is full of rich, bright fruity notes like apricot and peach stone, while being still elegant, fresh and acidic. The mouthfeel is Semi-sweet and tangy at the same time. I haven't had too many Chenin Blancs but this is certainly the best so far. Simply put, awesome stuff.

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  • Flowers. honeyed, acidic, with good mouthfeel and long finish. Very nice wine. I suspect this will go for a while.

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  • honey, green fruits, lanolin on the nose, minerals, bitter lemon, and talc on the palate with a lingering finish of minerals and bitter lemon. Still primary and very enjoyable. Huet is the standard bearer. Went very well with medium spicy Chinese food. Cut through the spice with acidity and length.

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