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Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux Domaine Huet 1990

  • Candied fruit
  • Gastronomic wine
  • Icon wine
  • Color: Dessert White
  • biodynamic
  • Natural
  • Triple A
  • 12% 
  • 0.75L
  • Intensity
  • Sweet

A sweet Vouvray that boasts great purity and depth. The sugars are perfectly integrated.  More info

  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 into-neck
  • Label: 1 very marked label, 1 slightly bin-soiled label
  • Origin: Private individual
  • Recoverable VAT: No
  • Country/Region: Loire
  • Appellation/Wine: Vouvray
  • Producer/Owner: Domaine Huet
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Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux Domaine Huet serve at a temperature of 8°C. It will pair perfectly with the following dishes: Escalopes de foie gras de canard aux raisins, Pêches en sabayon, Tarte Tatin.

  • Vintage score: 17/20
  • Lot presentation
    Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux Domaine Huet

    The wine

    Le Haut-Lieu stretches over nine hectares, on a very deep clay-limestone soil with dominant brown clay. This rather heavy soil usually produces supple wines. Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux is very pure with perfectly integrated sweetness, fine energy, power and with a pleasant bitterness.

    Information about domain Huet

    The Vouvray AOC was first created in 1936, and covers 1,800 hectares spread across eight different municipalities. The only grape variety allowed here is Chenin Blanc (also known as Pineau de la Loire). Established in 1928, today the Huet estate encompasses 35 hectares mainly spread over three properties: Le Haut-Lieu, Le Mont and Le Clos du Bourg. A well-known local figure, Gaston Huet (former mayor of Vouvray, member of the INAO), is now retired, and the estate was managed by his son-in-law, Noël Pinguet, from 1976 to 2012. Since 1990, the vineyard has been worked entirely according to biodynamic principles. Across the estate as a whole, half of the vines are between 30 and 50 years old. The property was bought in 2004 by Anthony Hwang, retaining the same essential philosophy and keeping Jean-Bernard Berthomé as cellar master. This estate is one of the most famous in the region, always delivering wines of the highest level. Top drawer.

    Detailed characteristics

    • Quantity: 1 Bottle
    • Level: 1 into-neck
    • Label: 1 very marked label, 1 slightly bin-soiled label
    • Origin: Private individual
    • Type of cellar: Classic underground cellar
    • Recoverable VAT: No
    • Original Wooden Case / Original Case: No
    • French customs seal: yes
    • Alcohol percentage: 12 %
    • Country/Region: Loire
    • Appellation/Wine: Vouvray
    • Producer/Owner: Domaine Huet
    • Vintage: 1990
    • Color: Dessert White
    • Service temperature:
    • Viticulture: Triple A and biodynamic 
    • Size (in ha): 9
    • Intensity: Sweet
    • Dominant aroma: Candied fruit
    • Tasting occasion: Gastronomic wine
    • Grape variety: 100% Chenin Blanc
    Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux Domaine Huet
    Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux Domaine Huet

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    Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux Domaine Huet 1990

    iDealwine Price(1) corresponds to the hammer price and the buyer's premium charged by the auctioneer. (1)Bottle format