Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Mont Sec 2024

Le Mont is the steepest and stoniest of Domaine Huet's three Vouvray sites, and the one that gives the estate's most nervy dry Chenin Blanc.

Recognised since the fifteenth century as one of the most distinguished sites in the appellation, Le Mont was known locally as Perruches, after the greenish-tinged clays flecked with perrons, the fist-sized pebbles of flint that litter the ground. Huet purchased the steep, rocky eight-hectare vineyard in 1957. It lies on Vouvray's esteemed Première Côte, part of a bank of limestone-rich hillside overlooking Tours, and its argilo-siliceux soils — stony, with green mineral clays and flint over limestone — provide the tight structure and pungent minerality the site is known for. With less clay, and a different type of clay, than Le Haut-Lieu, Le Mont typically produces the nerviest wines in the Huet stable, so the parcel is given over mainly to dry and off-dry styles. Huet's secs carry between four and eight grams per litre of residual sugar depending on the season.

Pent-up and mineral when young, it rewards five to fifteen years and the best examples go much further. Serve at 10 to 12°C with oysters, scallops or roast pork.

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