1955 Domaine Huet Vouvray Sec Le Haut-Lieu

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92 points

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  8/22/2019 - Jammy Wine Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Huet wines are one of the few eternal wines in the world. This 1955 Le Haut Lieu Moelleux is incredibly young and barely showing half its age. Brilliant lively and buttery nose of burnt butter, ripe peach and apricot (reminds me of Richard Leroy Chenin), sweet honey and haystack. Off-dry with focused acidity. An incredibly pure bottle of Vouvray from one of the legendary vintages. High purity with in depth complexity. Compelling. (92/100)

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  6/25/2014 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  Quite a deep golden colour so I got Grant at fermentAsian to splash it into a black Riedel glass to serve to some mates blind. There is plenty of truffle and mushroom development on the nose and in the mouth. There are notes of lemon, slate and bruised apples as well. It is full and rich with a big squeeze of lemon juice acidity. It has fantastic length of flavour.

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  8/2/2009 - BradKNYC wrote:

  New York bids adieu to Sharon Bowman (Dougherty's): Once again Dougherty tortures me by bringing out an old Huet, but makes it a sec. Indeed, it was a pretty severe wine. It's surprisingly muted on the nose, but on the palate it's a razor wire bullwhip that thrashes the insides of your mouth with acidic fury. Yeah, there's some typical quince, bergamot, shoe polish and mineral to add a little pleasure, but this is about as much into S & M as I want to go. Please pass the sugar. B-.

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