1980 Domaine Huet Vouvray Vin De Glace Sec Le Haut-Lieu

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  2/3/2023 - jonathanjetter@gmail.com Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Poured by the glass at Chambers in NYC.
  
  Incredibly alive and full and rich. Layers upon layers. Acidity still going strong. Funky weird mead-y honey notes, lots of salinity and minerality, ripe yellow fruits that are somehow tart at the same time. a bit of wool and wilty white flowers and must.
  
  This may well be at peak, but there is zero risk of imminent decline. No way the drinking window ended back in 2010.
  
  I'd buy a whole bunch of this at retail if only there were any available.

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  11/17/2022 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Tasted double blind from small capped bottles. Golden color. Nose is funky, very woolly w florals and pollen, hints of ripe apricots and peach, salty. Palate is brutally acidic - tart yellow fruits, boney, wicked - musty closet, sour milk, something really weird - salty and tart tart sour on finish. Nose - 4.5/6, Palate - 3.5/6, Finish - 3/6, Je ne Sais Quoi 1/2 = 12/20.
  
  Day 3: Nose is still woolly, pear, apricot, bit of eau de vie, pollen and pollen and florals and wax. Bit of brown sugar. Very acidic on the palate - still wicked but a touch more sweetness and fruit and that makes a big difference - exciting and sharp - pear and apricot, pollen, with a real acid bite that’s somewhere between citric and orchard. Finish has bite with pear apricot and stones. This has improved significantly with a few days air and time to integrate. I really like it now. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 5.5/6, Finish - 4.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi 1-1.5/2= 16-16.5/20.

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  10/18/2013 - chatters wrote:

  Supper with the WSET diploma guys at E & M's - theme was wine to accompany seafood (E & M's in the rocks, Sydney): Aromas of honey, toast, butter, cream and slight apple - custard apple in fact and very slight cork notes that seemed to blow off with time. In the mouth the wine is still very fruity and zesty acidity with flavours of tart green apple and lemon juice dominating very slight honeyed notes on the long finish. Very nice.

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  7/11/2013 - BradKNYC wrote:

  More Vouvray with lunch including two Huet I hadn't had before. (David's.): A similar showing to the last bottle I had. Beautifully aromatic and high acid, bordering on too severe for some, with a rich glycerol feel and full of quince, yellow citrus, mineral and a hint of red berry fruit. The more I try it, the more it reminds of the drier bottling of '96 Cour Cheverny from Cazin, though that wine still shows a bit more residual than this one. Lovely and it worked beautifully with the smoked trout it was served with, but sec ice wine is not for the faint of heart. A-/B+.

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  3/18/2012 - BradKNYC wrote:

  Occupy Spoof comes to town. (Joe's.): This bottle is a little broader and friendlier than the last one I tried. It shows similarly with quince, mineral and hints of strawberry, but there's also a bit of apricot here and this bottle has a more glycerol feel to it that helps tame what can be rather bullying acidity. Where's the pork or goose rillettes when you need them? It would be a wonderful match with either of those. A-/B+.

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