1957 Domaine Huet Vouvray Demi-Sec Clos du Bourg

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  12/14/2022 - acyso wrote: flawed

  A survey of Domaine Huet (Chicago, IL): Cursive label. Corked.

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  5/3/2019 - BillBell73 Likes this wine:

  Beautiful and startlingly youthful. Most of the sweetness is gone and what’s left is lemony fruit with some minor savory mushroom undertones. Very little evidence of oxidation which is hard for me to understand- I don’t know the reconditioning regimen for Huet (this was purchased recently from them) but the cork looked about 20 years old and had a thick layer of black, musty cellar funk under the new capsule. Comments appreciated.

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  5/2/2019 - MikeATL Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Incredibly fresh, honey, quince, and stone with great acidity and only the barest hint of sugar, it has decades left in the tank.

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  9/13/2014 - JeffGMorris Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Dinner at Fearrington with Dick & Amy. Medium yellow in the glass, this was probably the best bottle ( so far ) from the case I bought several years back. Intense minerality. Complexity of age but still mixed with youthful tasting fruit. Ethereal. Elegant. A long finish beyond belief. A truly spectacular wine. 50+15+14.5+9.5+9.5=98.5

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  6/30/2012 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points

  Loire Odyssey, Part V - I did it my Huët (Absinthe, Boat Quay): The oldest wine on the night. Not quite as good as some of its younger siblings on show, but still a really nice drop. It had a ridiculously good nose, full of freshly laundered sheets and wet wool aromas, a bit of caramel and spice, honeyed pears and red apples, with hints of tropical lychee, some lovely floral scents and just that strange suggestion of roasted green pepper at the very edges of bouquet. Wow. The palate was a bit reductive even after some time in the decanter, with a struck match note that came to the fore. However, it opened up nicely with a fresh burst of bright, citrus acidity and really pure flavours of lemons and Granny Smith apples. The acidity was so bright that the wine seemed a bit light at first as it rode upon a streal of citrussy notes, but that was an illusion - there was certainly a nice sense of depth and presence to the to this, with an undercurrant of fleshier white fruit wed to lanolin and earthy mineral notes stretching into a deliciously fresh finish. Lovely stuff. Still completely alive, if just perhaps lacking a bit of complexity and strength of conviction. I must say that it was a fantastic pairing with a veal dish in an Oloroso sauce though, which brought out a complementary savoury, white meat echo in the wine. However, in this case, it was the dish that propelled the wine to a higher level rather than the other way around. It is almost impossible to say with a wine of this age, but on this showing as compared to a bottle we had three years back, I would say that it has deproved rather than improved. It could well be bottle variation rather than it being past its prime however. Whatever the case, this was still very nice indeed.

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