1973 Domaine Huet Vouvray Moelleux Le Mont

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 94.7 points

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  10/20/2018 - swfc Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Tell tale poached quince nose of old chenin. A light amber colour, this has such a surprising, and welcome, seam of acidity that keeps this in balance and still drinking very well indeed. Some tertiary mushroom and forest floor aromas gradually surface too, intermingling with a handful of stone fruits and a now faded, old oak imprint. Perfect with nutty cheeses

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  10/20/2018 - WinebugUK Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Beautiful intense gold colour. The nose is pure jelly quince with old oak barrels smell. The palate is very fresh with a pritstine acidity and plenty of dried white fruit characters and well-integrated smokey oak. It has depth and it is very much alive. Drinking bewautifully now and will probably do so for the next few years. Tasted blind and I thought it was from the 90s... taste so young, incredible.

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  10/12/2017 - sharonandroland Likes this wine:

  HKWS Huet tasting 1931-1989 ranked 5th out of 12

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  6/30/2012 - Paul S wrote: flawed

  Loire Odyssey, Part V - I did it my Huët (Absinthe, Boat Quay): We were wondering whether there was some sort of flaw on this. It smelt a bit dirty, a bit murky, with a twang of wet dishrags and insecticide layered over deeper notes of lanolin and apples. A bit nasty smelling actually. The palate was okay though, with lots of mineral and lanolin forming a serious base for pure apple flavours. It had a decent finish with a nutty tail as well, all nicely balanced and structured, with well-integrated acidity rounding off the wine nicely. Did not taste spoilt, but it was certainly the most reserved wine. Not bad on the palate though. However, in an abundnace of caution, I would mark this as flawed rather than to score it down.

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  2/7/2011 - Stefanos T. wrote: 93 Points

  Colour is medium gold not much darker than many oaked Chardonnays in the market. Nose is dominated by sweet beeswax aromas, on the backgroung a complex array of aromatics reminiscent of flowers, dried leaves, mushrooms, honey and white fleshed fruit. Reveals some age but not 27 years! In the mouth it is medium sweet with high acidity that balances medium + body and sweetness, complex and long flavours: honey, beeswax, pear, grass, iodine. After so many years it is still subtle and elegant. Balance is such that you can forget it is a sweet wine. Incredible!

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