Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Mont Sec 2021

Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Mont Sec comes from a steep, stony eight-hectare vineyard that produces the nerviest wines in the Huet range.

Le Mont was purchased by Domaine Huet in 1957 and lies on Vouvray's Première Côte, part of a bank of limestone-rich hillside vineyards overlooking Tours. Its soils are argilo-siliceux: stony, with green mineral clays and flint over limestone. Compared with Le Haut-Lieu, there is less clay, of a different type, and considerably more stone, and that combination is responsible for the tight structure and pungent minerality the site is known for. Because the wines from Le Mont are the most tightly wound in the Huet stable, the vineyard is used mostly for dry and off-dry bottlings rather than the sweeter styles. Chenin Blanc from this kind of ground is slow to open, and Huet's secs are made to be waited for rather than caught young.

It can be drunk on release but will repay ten to twenty years in the cellar, and suits oysters, roast pork or a hard goat's cheese. Serve at 10 to 12 degrees.

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