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• sweetstuff wrote: 97 points

  May 25, 2018 - 2015 Domaine Huet Vouvray Cuvee Constance (Loire, Touraine). Cork-finished and served from Coravin into both Riedel Riesling and leCache. Rare Wine Company, 11.5pabv, $133/500 ml. Firm yellow-green with a slight brown tinge, with clingy, thick-coated Tudor window tears. Nose starts tight with lanolin and linden leaves going on to hints of white peach. Piquant and juicy acidity with great freshness; again, tight from palate to apple-tinged finish, but shows much promise, both after the argon blows off and hopefully through many years. Revisiting after 12 noon pour, resinous raw aged Pu-er tea (I've been brewing up my best for the last week or so, and it hangs in the mind); fine orange bitters bring lift to mid-palate. Although this wine is supposed to be heavily selected for Botrytis in some vintages, the ones that I've tasted (1995, 1997, 2015) have been mostly quite restrained for this, and emphasis is on a clean, fine, pointillist character. Therefore the concentration here is probably due more to 'clean' shrivelling rather than porriture noble. A wine of importance, but strangely, snows not a bit of snootiness. Though this was bought to drink in the baby-fat stage, Manhattan will be under water before it reaches its peak! 96-98/100.

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