1998 Domaine Huet Vouvray Pétillant Brut

Community Tasting Notes (29) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  1/2/2021 - BillBell73 Likes this wine:

  This is fantastic wine. Lightly honeyed fresh apple and a bit of umami, but the profile is still very fresh and primary considering the age. This is a real overachiever in the stellar Huet lineup and I’m interested in seeing where it goes from here. I should have bought a case when I had the opportunity.

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  8/21/2019 - forceberry wrote: 91 Points

  12% alcohol.
  
  Quite pale lemon yellow color. Restrained and pretty attractive nose with aromas of spicy yellow flowers, some mineral chalk dust tones, a little bit of red apple, light waxy tones, a developed hint of wool and a touch of flint smoke. The wine is dry-to-dry-ish, refreshing and somewhat reticent on the palate with flavors of mineral chalk dust, some ripe Granny Smith apple tones, a little bit of steely minerality, light notes of quinine bitterness and a developed hint of rich creaminess. The dosage shows through very slightly, but the high acidity keeps it very nicely in check. Fine and silky smooth mousse. The mouth-watering finish is bright, firm and lively with flavors of chalky minerality and apple peel bitterness, some developed creaminess, light waxy tones, a little bit of tart lemony citrus fruits and a touch of wet stones.
  
  A very attractive and poised sparkling that is remarkably youthful for one at 21 years of age. The wine has started to develop some rich creamy tones and light waxy characteristics, but otherwise it shows very little if any sense of age, coming across as a sparkling wine not older than a few years. Although the dosage shows through very slightly, the high acidity keeps the balance well in check and the residual sugar mainly keeps the wine from tasting austere - since it is not particularly fruit or vinous in the first place. Most likely will need another 10-15 years to start really singing, since these fizzy Vouvrays seem to age at geological timescales.

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  3/4/2019 - wynlvr wrote: 91 Points

  What a value, and a surprise. Fresh on opening, then maturing yet staying a star.

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  7/15/2018 - James Kim Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Wine Tasting Group - No Theme - July 15, 2018 (Home): Really interesting how this wine evolved through the night. Opened for 2 hrs and kept in ice bucket before serving. Amazingly youthful with brioche, tart apples, citrus, minerals and wet wool, and a bit of grapefruit pith bitterness. Excellent acids and very lively. We were surprised and none of us would have guessed that this was 20 yrs old if blinded. However, after about 1.5 more and as the wine warmed, prominent honeysuckle and a mild oxidative nuttiness emerges and permeates through the palate, revealing the wine's maturity. The mineral and acid spine was still present, but in a more rounded form. Excellent!

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  12/9/2017 - SWHighlander Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Tasted blind at a vintage Champagne tasting. I was fooled, as I think was everyone else. Excellent bubbly, compares to a good RM champagne. Drinking perfectly right now in it's window.

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