Always a joy to drink these wines. Ginger, honey, honeysuckle, baked apple nose. Rich and full bodied on the palate but with characteristic acidity and minerality. Others are tasting a hint of residual sugar but I think that’s just ripeness.
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Is there a more chameleon of a wine than Chenin Blanc? From a pop and pour, we see a copious supply of spicy ginger, an acidic thrust of fresh squeezed lemon and a bit of the CdB pebbles on the finish. I saved a glass and about 3 hrs later, the spiciness had toned down a fair amount, and instead we have a palate of pure and concentrated Granny Smith apples with an almost honeyed quality that suggested a drizzle of honey - though this was bone dry through and through. It really was two different wines coming from the same bottle, both compelling, both delicious. I do think though I’m drinking my Huets on the younger side, and I’m ok with that.
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Such a good Huet. Straight out of the bottle the nose was pears, vanilla and honey. Full bodied already, but well balanced. This is going to be amazing.
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Poured into a chilling decanter and enjoyed with assorted hard cheeses, charcuterie and whole grain crackers. Displays a clear, medium lemon color with flecks of gold. It needs a solid 15-20 minutes of aeration in the decanter to start showing it’s wonderful perfumed and complex aromatics: honeysuckle, freshly cut hay, spice, lemon candy, and rocky white stone. As the wine opens in mouth, the pronounced lemon notes and raw honey take the forefront, while the fresh hay, spice and minerality add interesting complexity. Rich and full bodied with medium plus acidity providing balance and freshness. Slightly beyond the youthful phase, this has begun the development phase, so I would expect this to start showing more delineation and complexity moving forward. Quite impressive at four years. Drink though 2033+.
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After opening it really had to open up. After an hour more and more lemon and minerality, next to the acidity. After 24 hours I tasted more apple, honey and peach. Really a special Loire wine. Better and more special than most I’ve had! Will keep a few bottles for years, I expect the acidity to be more integrated then.
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Nose is light, mineral and a bit floral. Palate is light to medium, predominantly mineral, smooth and balanced, with with just a hint of citrus on back of tongue. Paired with a single Pan roasted dinner of small potatoes, mixed purple and white small potatoes, carrots, brussel sprouts with drizzled all balsamic vinegar, Cherry tomatoes snd roasted chicken completely done in the oven. Pairing is completely delightful!
8/4/21- 2nd half of the bottle was with broccoli and cheese quiche, sliced fresh tomato and cucumber salad. A beautiful, light, balanced summer wine!
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Wee kopishop wine lunch. Drank in Gabriel Standart. Appearance is clear, pale intensity, elmon colour. Legs. Nose medium intensity, with aromas of stony minerality, emerging honey, hints of creeping oxidativeness, straw hay, apple fruits, citrus lemon. Developing. On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium+ alcohol (13.5%), medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of rounded citrus lemon, apple fruits, honey and slight oxidativeness, chalky stony minerals. Long finish. Very good quality. Still a young gun. Wasn't given enough air time to express fully I feel. Will keep a long time, though it is going for the dry oxidative Chenin Blanc kind of style, which I am generally not really a big fan of.
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Rather tight on the first day but still showing ripe and round tropical fruits. On the third day the fruit was much more expressive with pineapples and peaches. Very thicc texture but still retains high tension. Overall a little disjointed for me, maybe needs time?.
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(Followed over 72 hours) This pours medium straw in the glass. The nose begins tight but over the course of a few hours gains in complexity and explodes from the glass by the third day. It aromas are of dry hay, chalk, ripe pear, honey drizzled red apple, honeycomb, and apple blossom. The nose is initially both moderate intensity and complexity, but gains both complexity and intensity over the time it is followed. The palate is quite nice featuring a lovely sweet entry of apple and honey, turning dry on the mid palate and tart on the finish. The acid is medium plus keeping this bright and fresh. The finish lingers pleasantly. medium plus in length showing some apple skin and a kiss of apple blossom. This is quite and spectacular in the end. Initially I was only 92 or so but as I followed this it opened significantly. I'd recommend plenty of air time if drinking this young.
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Very good. Medium-full bodied with a good balance of ripe sweetness and acidity. Elegant flavors of dry honey, peaches, plums, and apples. Good intensity. Easy to drink, easy to like.
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MUST-KEEP-MY-HANDS-OFF-REMAINING-BOTTLES.... This is just stunning stuff. It explodes out of the glass with lemon, lime, peach, ginger.... etc. fantastic acidity but not out of balance whatsoever. I will need to store my last bottles in a deep dark spot in the cellar because drinking now is hard to resist.
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Starts off with some very pronounced ginger and quince, quite exotic and perhaps a bit much in the early going. I served this too cold, as it warmed, more ‘Huety” stuff came out: mineral tension, saline misted acidity and an over all good focus. That being said, I don’t see this as a long term ager, one to enjoy in its first decade not two or three.
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This was good, but maybe drinking it young is a waste? Good texture, some flowers on the nose, lots of green apples on the nose and palate, somewhat more perceived sweetness than I was expecting.
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Always so solid, though this is decidedly young. The nose has lemon zest, syrupy pear, and white flowers. Palate is lithe with bright acidity, but is thick and velvety. Green apple, more ripe pear, beeswax, and a sea spray finish.
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JG: “Because of the style of the growing season of 2018, which greatly favored producing Demi-Sec and sweeter wines in Vouvray, Domaine Huët has only produced one Sec bottling in this vintage, from the Clos du Bourg vineyard. The wine has turned out beautifully, offering up a pure and youthfully complex nose of grapefruit, quince, lanolin, chalky minerality, spring flowers and a topnote of citrus peel. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and rock solid at the core, with lovely mineral drive, zesty acids and excellent focus and grip on the long, youthful and very, very promising finish. Often the Clos du Bourg Sec will stay open for a couple of years before it starts to hibernate, and during that early window, it is really a good drink, before closing down for the next eight to ten years, and I suspect the 2018 will also follow this pattern, though it may close down a bit brisker than other recent vintages of Sec from this vineyard. So, plan to drink this over the next year to enjoy its open, youthful phase, and then let it sleep in a cool corner of the cellar for the next eight years or so. Once it begins to really emerge into its plateau of maturity, it is going to be stellar! 2019-2080. 94.”
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Clear, medium intense, lemon (almost golden) appearance. Very youthful and clean nose, medium intensity with notes of red apple, honey and beeswax for sure. A touch floral, probably a function of its abv. I pick up faint spice as well, perhaps clove. A dry vouvray, no residual sugar here. Medium plus well matched medium acidity. The palate is in fact complex with a lemon rind core that transforms into an intense red apple finish. There is also a floral lift and waxy texture to the wine. Quite remarkable with a long finish that builds! Will add more to my cellar...
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12/23/2023 - henryfriendly wrote: 93 Points
Always a joy to drink these wines. Ginger, honey, honeysuckle, baked apple nose. Rich and full bodied on the palate but with characteristic acidity and minerality. Others are tasting a hint of residual sugar but I think that’s just ripeness.
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9/24/2023 - jsmorris707 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Similar to prior notes after a 1 hour SO; delicious, drink or hold
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8/29/2023 - Dale M wrote: 92 Points
Is there a more chameleon of a wine than Chenin Blanc? From a pop and pour, we see a copious supply of spicy ginger, an acidic thrust of fresh squeezed lemon and a bit of the CdB pebbles on the finish. I saved a glass and about 3 hrs later, the spiciness had toned down a fair amount, and instead we have a palate of pure and concentrated Granny Smith apples with an almost honeyed quality that suggested a drizzle of honey - though this was bone dry through and through. It really was two different wines coming from the same bottle, both compelling, both delicious. I do think though I’m drinking my Huets on the younger side, and I’m ok with that.
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3/15/2023 - Luke275 Likes this wine:
Such a good Huet. Straight out of the bottle the nose was pears, vanilla and honey. Full bodied already, but well balanced. This is going to be amazing.
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2/10/2023 - Le Gaulois Likes this wine: 90 Points
Très beau, à point. Belle balance du gras et de l'acidité avec une touche de poire et de vanille.
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9/18/2022 - wmccone54 wrote: 94 Points
Poured into a chilling decanter and enjoyed with assorted hard cheeses, charcuterie and whole grain crackers. Displays a clear, medium lemon color with flecks of gold. It needs a solid 15-20 minutes of aeration in the decanter to start showing it’s wonderful perfumed and complex aromatics: honeysuckle, freshly cut hay, spice, lemon candy, and rocky white stone. As the wine opens in mouth, the pronounced lemon notes and raw honey take the forefront, while the fresh hay, spice and minerality add interesting complexity. Rich and full bodied with medium plus acidity providing balance and freshness. Slightly beyond the youthful phase, this has begun the development phase, so I would expect this to start showing more delineation and complexity moving forward. Quite impressive at four years. Drink though 2033+.
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7/4/2022 - burlingtonm Does not like this wine:
Oxidized. Hugely disappointing.
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12/28/2021 - robhaf Likes this wine: 93 Points
After opening it really had to open up. After an hour more and more lemon and minerality, next to the acidity. After 24 hours I tasted more apple, honey and peach. Really a special Loire wine. Better and more special than most I’ve had!
Will keep a few bottles for years, I expect the acidity to be more integrated then.
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11/27/2021 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 91 Points
Really nice wine featuring floral, minerals, granny smith apples, mild spice and honeysuckles. Good acidity and medium finish.
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8/5/2021 - jsmorris707 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Similar to prior notes after a 1 hour SO; delicious, drink or hold
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7/26/2021 - CourtlyDoc Likes this wine: 93 Points
Nose is light, mineral and a bit floral. Palate is light to medium, predominantly mineral, smooth and balanced, with with just a hint of citrus on back of tongue.
Paired with a single Pan roasted dinner of small potatoes, mixed purple and white small potatoes, carrots, brussel sprouts with drizzled all balsamic vinegar, Cherry tomatoes snd roasted chicken completely done in the oven. Pairing is completely delightful!
8/4/21- 2nd half of the bottle was with broccoli and cheese quiche, sliced fresh tomato and cucumber salad. A beautiful, light, balanced summer wine!
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6/12/2021 - kstoddard wrote: flawed
Oxidized
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4/27/2021 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 91 Points
Wee kopishop wine lunch. Drank in Gabriel Standart.
Appearance is clear, pale intensity, elmon colour. Legs.
Nose medium intensity, with aromas of stony minerality, emerging honey, hints of creeping oxidativeness, straw hay, apple fruits, citrus lemon. Developing.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium+ alcohol (13.5%), medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of rounded citrus lemon, apple fruits, honey and slight oxidativeness, chalky stony minerals. Long finish.
Very good quality. Still a young gun. Wasn't given enough air time to express fully I feel. Will keep a long time, though it is going for the dry oxidative Chenin Blanc kind of style, which I am generally not really a big fan of.
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3/27/2021 - catchen_glimpse Likes this wine: 85 Points
Dry "sec" cuvée planted on clay-limestone soil. Dominance with citrus with expressive honey aroma. Finish on bitterness
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3/4/2021 - melvinyeowq wrote:
Rather tight on the first day but still showing ripe and round tropical fruits. On the third day the fruit was much more expressive with pineapples and peaches. Very thicc texture but still retains high tension. Overall a little disjointed for me, maybe needs time?.
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1/25/2021 - Wine Canuck wrote: 94 Points
(Followed over 72 hours) This pours medium straw in the glass. The nose begins tight but over the course of a few hours gains in complexity and explodes from the glass by the third day. It aromas are of dry hay, chalk, ripe pear, honey drizzled red apple, honeycomb, and apple blossom. The nose is initially both moderate intensity and complexity, but gains both complexity and intensity over the time it is followed. The palate is quite nice featuring a lovely sweet entry of apple and honey, turning dry on the mid palate and tart on the finish. The acid is medium plus keeping this bright and fresh. The finish lingers pleasantly. medium plus in length showing some apple skin and a kiss of apple blossom. This is quite and spectacular in the end. Initially I was only 92 or so but as I followed this it opened significantly. I'd recommend plenty of air time if drinking this young.
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10/18/2020 - rmalloy Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very good. Medium-full bodied with a good balance of ripe sweetness and acidity. Elegant flavors of dry honey, peaches, plums, and apples. Good intensity. Easy to drink, easy to like.
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10/2/2020 - jsmorris707 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Similar to prior note at CWG; outstanding & unique. love it!
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9/30/2020 - ovenmitt wrote: 93 Points
MUST-KEEP-MY-HANDS-OFF-REMAINING-BOTTLES.... This is just stunning stuff. It explodes out of the glass with lemon, lime, peach, ginger.... etc. fantastic acidity but not out of balance whatsoever. I will need to store my last bottles in a deep dark spot in the cellar because drinking now is hard to resist.
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9/15/2020 - Dale M wrote: 91 Points
Starts off with some very pronounced ginger and quince, quite exotic and perhaps a bit much in the early going. I served this too cold, as it warmed, more ‘Huety” stuff came out: mineral tension, saline misted acidity and an over all good focus. That being said, I don’t see this as a long term ager, one to enjoy in its first decade not two or three.
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9/6/2020 - cincybt Likes this wine: 92 Points
A hit at our gathering. Really enjoyed this wine.
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8/22/2020 - sivad Likes this wine:
This was good, but maybe drinking it young is a waste? Good texture, some flowers on the nose, lots of green apples on the nose and palate, somewhat more perceived sweetness than I was expecting.
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8/22/2020 - jsmorris707 Likes this wine: 94 Points
SO'd for an hour, pale gold, beautiful nose of floral lemon, dry creamy lemon & pear on the palate; delicious, drink or hold
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8/14/2020 - pdr_urrutia wrote: 92 Points
Always so solid, though this is decidedly young. The nose has lemon zest, syrupy pear, and white flowers. Palate is lithe with bright acidity, but is thick and velvety. Green apple, more ripe pear, beeswax, and a sea spray finish.
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6/26/2020 - Fat1Wombat wrote: 90 Points
Medium color.
Funky toffee apple. Fresh but with a slightly poach profile.
Dry to off dry. Hint of phenolics. Rich but fresh. Very good fullness.
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5/3/2020 - RobertSchuyt wrote:
JG: “Because of the style of the growing season of 2018, which greatly favored producing Demi-Sec and sweeter wines in Vouvray, Domaine Huët has only produced one Sec bottling in this vintage, from the Clos du Bourg vineyard. The wine has turned out beautifully, offering up a pure and youthfully complex nose of grapefruit, quince, lanolin, chalky minerality, spring flowers and a topnote of citrus peel. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and rock solid at the core, with lovely mineral drive, zesty acids and excellent focus and grip on the long, youthful and very, very promising finish. Often the Clos du Bourg Sec will stay open for a couple of years before it starts to hibernate, and during that early window, it is really a good drink, before closing down for the next eight to ten years, and I suspect the 2018 will also follow this pattern, though it may close down a bit brisker than other recent vintages of Sec from this vineyard. So, plan to drink this over the next year to enjoy its open, youthful phase, and then let it sleep in a cool corner of the cellar for the next eight years or so. Once it begins to really emerge into its plateau of maturity, it is going to be stellar! 2019-2080. 94.”
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2/16/2020 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 90 Points
I used to think these needed at least a decade in bottle. This was youthful, disjointed, touch of cordial in the mix, but it was enjoyable with food.
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12/14/2019 - dna.oneill Likes this wine: 92 Points
Clear, medium intense, lemon (almost golden) appearance. Very youthful and clean nose, medium intensity with notes of red apple, honey and beeswax for sure. A touch floral, probably a function of its abv. I pick up faint spice as well, perhaps clove. A dry vouvray, no residual sugar here. Medium plus well matched medium acidity. The palate is in fact complex with a lemon rind core that transforms into an intense red apple finish. There is also a floral lift and waxy texture to the wine. Quite remarkable with a long finish that builds! Will add more to my cellar...
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10/15/2019 - Guy Des Rosiers Likes this wine: 89 Points
I think this was the only sec produced in 2018? If you see it, grab it.
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