Domaine Huet Vouvray Cuvée Constance 500ml 2018

Domaine Huet Vouvray Cuvée Constance is the estate's sweet-wine pinnacle, a botrytis selection made only in the greatest vintages, in a 500ml bottle.

Vouvray sits on tuffeau limestone above the Loire near Tours, and its sweet Chenin Blanc ranks with the finest dessert wines of France. Huet has been the benchmark estate here since 1928 and farms its three great vineyards, Le Mont, Le Haut-Lieu and Clos du Bourg, biodynamically. Cuvée Constance is named for Gaston Huet's mother and is bottled only in exceptional sweet-wine years; this is only the third release of the previous decade. It is a blend of the most concentrated botrytised fruit from all three sites, picked in successive passes through the vines. Vinification was split half in used demi-muid and half in stainless steel, and fermentation finished at around 160 g/L residual sugar and 11.5 per cent alcohol, leaving a wine of great intensity that stays weightless on the palate.

A joy now and likely to live for fifty years; serve at 8–10°C with blue cheese, foie gras or a quince or apple tart.

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