April 12, 2024 - Can’t believe it’s been 6 years since my last bottle. A firecracker Le Mont, with thrilling acidity, lemon and lanolin, lime flower, a bit more evolution with honeycomb, some white mushroom, hay, and some complex umami laden tide pool. Dense, chewy texture full of dry extract, but mid weight in body. It will likely continue to gain complexity. Mighty fine.
March 24, 2024 - Slow to open on the nose but got there beautifully with orange oil, eucalyptus honey, candle wax, and that particular slightly funky and pungent minerality of this place. All of this, though, is delicate, not explosive, mature. The palate is not as articulate as the nose and while I want to say that it’s because it’s perfectly harmonious, I think it’s more that the wine just isn’t very strong any longer on the palate. It’s a bit salty in its mineral expression. There’s no fruit whatsoever, which is fine, but there isn’t enough detail to be compelling.
December 9, 2023 - The first thing I notice - and often do with the Huet dry Vouvrays - is how broad they are on the palate. This is fully textured. Quite muted nose. There is good ripe fruit. Wet wool. Lanolin. Complex orchard stone fruits soaked in a light syrup. I think there's some detectable residual sugar contributing to the perceived breadth of the wine on the palate. As the critic John Gilman commented in his 2012 review, this wine has half a foot in the Demi-Sec camp in terms of aromatics and flavors. It's full of flavor. Needed acid comes late to refresh the wine and drive the length onward to a very satisfactory finish. Needs food. Holding up well of course. Will basically keep forever. Bought on release.
November 13, 2023 - Huet is simple the best Vouvray and for me the best white wine in existence.
August 31, 2023 - Superbe tenue.
Encore bien droit, légèrement évolué mais sans plus.
Semble avoir une longue route devant, soutenue par une acidité bien présente et qui fait vibrer un ensemble bien nourri.
92-93?
August 25, 2023 - What a great bottle. Just a hint of exotic fruits and bordeline with some RS but amazing energy, balance and finish.
Beautiful golden color.
April 5, 2023 - Farewell to my final bottle of the 2010, and this is the last bottle of Huet in my cellar. This vintage of Le Mont co continues to cruise right along, and the core of the wine's acidity remains alive and present, with a lime peel note that was not in the 2007 (which I served alongside). Touch of caramel and good structure. Where the 2007 is more dense and flamboyant in tone, the 2019 seems more focused and brighter.
January 1, 2023 - TFM 23 new years dinner. Excellent bottle that always delivers with food. Nice floral nose, showing quince, lime, honey. Quite agile on the palate perhaps just a tad heavy but really everything is in check. Decent finish. Went great with the cauliflower panna cotta and the fois gras.
September 23, 2022 - This had at first notes of caramel which were hard to distinguish from premox but in the end it was simply a rich and at the same time acidic and sharp wine. Very tasty.
On the second day there is no doubt about the oxydation. Flawed, I think, but still a pleasure. I wonder if my increasing rate of flawed bottles is owing to 7 seven years of wine fridge (instead of a passive cellar)?
July 24, 2022 - Full yellow. Mind’s eye Vouvray sec. Drinking beatifully. See July, 2021 note-largely unchanged.