1989 Domaine Huet Vouvray Moelleux Fin De Pressée Le Mont

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 94.6 points

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  11/27/2023 - kabert Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Dynamite! Didn’t try using a regular cork screw - given the bottle’s age, went with an ah-so and it worked perfectly. Three-quarters of cork was wet. The wine poured amber in color. Incredibly full bodied - sweet apricot and peach notes, underlined on the palate by a welcome touch of acidity. Had the 750 ml bottle open for the last four days and there’s seemingly no change day to day. Delicious, special experience.

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  9/5/2023 - goodvitis.com wrote: 90 Points

  Unfortunately we had a very damp cork with a little bit of leakage on this bottle, so it wasn't showing its best. We've had a number of 1989 Huet Premier Tries in the last few years and none of them were this dark nor this sappy. Nevertheless the acid was great and we still enjoyed the bottle. I imagine bottles in better shape are drinking better and will last for decades.

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  7/20/2023 - NickA Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Loire Wines of North London (Must & Lees): Boom - the best saved for last. Such a deep amber. Lots of depth here, with juicy marmalade, pure, intense apricot and something dark and fruitcakey. So long and impactful. Fantastic stuff, deservedly my and the group's WOTN.

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  7/20/2023 - Joshvoulters Likes this wine: 94 Points

  TWS North London - Loire (Must & Lees, N1): This is amazing stuff - not just what's in the bottle but the process and meticulous selection behind it. It pours dark with a sense of weight. Very special on the nose: burnt sugar, orange, lemon, ripe yellow pear- so rich and deep and just the most incredible jolt of acidity. Lasts forever on the finish.
  
  Strange to say at 34 years but it feels quite tight and compact- I guess it will continue to unwind and maybe discover some levity and clarity to its layers. While impressive and delicious right now, I think there's more to come.

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  12/14/2022 - acyso wrote: 95 Points

  A survey of Domaine Huet (Chicago, IL): Brown label. This would have been an impressive wine already but it certainly paled in comparison to the mind-bending Essai. It's pretty clear the difference -- where as the Essai was lifted and light, this is structurally far more compact and squat. Everything is about the weight and concentration here. A huge, massively scaled wine with insane amounts of extract, this is a sweet wine that feels almost chewy. You get some phenolics here as well that I think are pretty interesting, especially since I've never found a particularly phenolic note in wines with this sort of weight before. In isolation, this would have been a very impressive wine to taste, but tonight, it didn't fare anywhere as well as its cousin from Le Clos de Bourg.

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