2020 Domaine Huet Vouvray Moelleux 1ère Trie Clos du Bourg

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  2/13/2023 - Pearcebarr Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Just an explosion of tropical fruit, and lemon wrapped up in a mouth coating texture. Some stone, chalk, and other mineral elements on the nose I am guessing are from the chalky soils. Wished there was a bit more acidity, but I due think the lower acidity levels make this more enjoyable in its youth. While not a showstopper now, I imagine this will age into a special wine.

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  4/26/2022 - Asull2k wrote: 90 Points

  Floral honey on the nose. Melon, apricot, honey, and a little ginger on the palate with a 35-40 sec finish. Personally I prefer dry chenin but this is well made and stands well on its own

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  8/18/2021 - originalverkorkt Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Located above the church of Vouvray, Clos du Bourg covers six hectares of vineyards surrounded by an old stone wall - hence "Clos". It is one of the oldest Grand Cru plots in France. It was mentioned as early as the 7th century. The flat soil of the vineyard is clay with flint and chalk inclusions. It is located on a typical Turonian tuffeau limestone rock. Here the vines reach the tufa after only one meter.
  
  The harvest took place in 2020 between September 7 (the earliest date in the winery's history) and September 25. As the vintage was strongly characterized by sun and warmth, mainly residually sweet wines were produced. As usual, the grapes were meticulously sorted, pressed and fermented spontaneously. Malolactic fermentation took place only in exceptional cases and in individual barrels. The wine was aged in used demi-muids. The Clos du Bourg Moelleux "Première Trie" is a residual sweet wine, in which the first grapes affected with botrytis have found their way in. In this case, residual sweetness means 93 g/l.
  
  Clos du Bourg Moelleux "Première Trie" is a wine of exuberant ripeness with precision and refinement. It smells like a big basket of fully ripe stone fruit, freshly sliced mirabelle plums, apricots and peaches, candied and dried fruit, apple peel and tobacco, a bit of cooked green pineapple chutney, smoke and rocks. It's joined by some kumquats and a bit of tarte tatin.
  
  This complex array of aromas on the nose demands an initial sip. Once you have that on the tongue, the pleasure of this wine becomes even greater. While the Clos du Bourg Moelleux "Première Trie" has the highest sweetness of the three "Première Trie" at 93 grams, it also has the deepest minerality and depth. It is a full wine, although still in the making, elegant and seductive, piquant in its aromas of citrus peel, salty with the notes of stone and with a little botrytis, juicy in its white and yellow fleshed multilayered fruit of peaches, quinces, papayas, yellow plums, oranges and melons. In contrast to Haut-Lieu and Le Mont, however, one misses here a little the punchy acidity and freshness.

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