Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Mont Moelleux 375ml 2022

Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Mont Moelleux is a sweet Chenin Blanc from a site recognised since the fifteenth century as one of Vouvray’s finest.

Le Mont takes its local name Perruches from the greenish clay soils flecked with perrons, fist-sized pebbles of flint. Huet bought the steep, rocky eight-hectare vineyard in 1957, and it sits on the Première Côte, the bank of limestone-rich hillside overlooking Tours. The argilo-siliceux soils, with less clay and more stone than Le Haut-Lieu, give the tight structure and pungent minerality the site is known for, and typically the nerviest wines in the Huet range. Moelleux, pronounced mweh-luh, means marrow-like, and Huet’s wines at this level usually carry between 40 and 60 g/L residual sugar, made mostly from grapes dried on the vine by passerillage rather than from botrytis. The style is fine and delicate, closer in weight to a great Mosel than to Sauternes. Bottled at 375ml.

Drinking now but capable of decades in the cellar. Serve at 8-10°C with terrine, washed-rind cheeses or a mildly spiced pork dish.

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