{"title":"Domaine Huet Back-vintages","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"domaine-huet-vouvray-petillant-brut-2019","title":"Domaine Huet Vouvray Pétillant Brut 2019","description":"\u003cp sugg=\"true\"\u003eOnly the best grower Champagnes have the kind of interest, sense of place and attention to detail this sparkling wine offers. Bottled at a low pressure of 2.5\/3 atmospheres (most Champagnes are between five and six), this wine has a more delicate fizz than most. The fruit is all estate-grown (certified biodynamic) and comes from the youngest vines in Huet’s Première Côte vineyards. Crafted in a hybrid méthode ancestrale style (only natural sugar in the must was used for the second fermentation), it’s made in years that favour dry wine production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp sugg=\"true\"\u003eDisgorged in October 2023 following 36 months on lees in the Huet cellars, the 2019 release has just over 1 g\/L residual sugar and was dosed with the 2018 Le Haut Lieu Moelleux. To quote sparkling wine authority Peter Liem on the style: “It’s a magical, intensely expressive wine, and ridiculously inexpensive for the quality”. Let’s hear that again: ridiculously inexpensive for the quality. 2019 is a magical, fleshy mineral release for this benchmark Loire sparkling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine Huet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44512924270830,"sku":"24039-750","price":58.26,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/7468\/3630\/files\/ff44518c-df93-ee11-ac3e-0aa7bbf44e76_24039-750.png?v=1701842795"},{"product_id":"domaine-huet-vouvray-le-haut-lieu-sec-2022-375ml","title":"Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Sec 2022 (375ml)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLe Haut Lieu was the estate’s first vineyard, purchased in 1928, and is situated on the Première Côte. As the name suggests, the house and the vineyards are located on a plateau with a slight south-facing gradient at one of the highest points of the appellation. It’s a nine-hectare plot on deep, brown, chalky clay (known as aubuis). Here, the yellow limestone (tuffeau) bedrock lies up to four metres down, making for a richer soil that produces round, supple wines that tend to drink well young. It generally produces the earliest maturing of the three cuvées and the first ready for drinking, but, like Clos du Bourg and Le Mont, the wines can be extremely long-lived. We have enjoyed bottles from the ’40s that are still drinking very well!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen young, these dry wines are pent-up, intense, mineral (chalky and\/or smoky-fresh) whites that are wonderfully pure and racy. With age, the top examples mature at a snail’s pace to become some of the most intriguing dry whites on the planet. They go from the white flowers, citrus pith and crunchy fruit of youth to something deliciously honeyed, buttery, savoury and autumnal. The younger examples are go-to wines for anything involving seafood or white meat. For the technically minded, Huet’s secs have between 4 and 8 g\/L residual sugar depending on the vintage, although the 2022 and 2023 wines dipped closer to the 3 g\/L mark.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine Huet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44512956055790,"sku":"24041-375","price":38.25,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/7468\/3630\/files\/f701931b-e093-ee11-ac3e-0aa7bbf44e76_24041-375.png?v=1701842855"},{"product_id":"domaine-huet-vouvray-clos-du-bourg-moelleux-premiere-trie-2022","title":"Domaine Huet Vouvray Clos du Bourg Moelleux Première Trie 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerched on the Première Côte just above the town of Vouvray, Clos du Bourg is a monopole and generally regarded as the greatest of the three Huet single vineyards. The domaine has farmed it since 1953 and purchased it in 1963. Clos du Bourg is arguably the greatest vineyard in the region, producing some of the most powerful, thrilling, long-lived white wines in Europe. With only one metre of topsoil over solid limestone, the vines tap almost immediately into the mineral resources underneath. The warmth of the site, combined with the mineral complexion of the soils, results in rich, super long-lived wines that seem to effortlessly combine intense minerality with generous texture and concentration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuet’s succulent moelleux wines (moelleux translates to ‘marrow-like’ and is pronounced ‘mweh-luh’) typically have between 40 and 60 g\/L residual sugar. They are made mainly from grapes that have dried on the vine (passerillage) rather than those affected by botrytis. Huet’s moelleux wines can be remarkably fine and delicate—think of a great Mosel rather than a Sauternes for an idea of weight—and pair brilliantly with cheeses and a range of savoury meat dishes (only wines from the richest years work with fruit-based desserts).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOccasionally, in the top years, the sweeter première trie level is made from a berry-by-berry selection of the very ripest (often botrytis-affected) grapes. The balance is dumbfounding, and these mouthwatering, racy, transparent wines represent some of the greatest whites of France. The première trie wines can also work with desserts—but nothing too sweet (they’re better with cheeses).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine Huet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44512982073582,"sku":"24044-750","price":130.64,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/7468\/3630\/files\/331b573b-e693-ee11-ac3e-0aa7bbf44e76_24044-750.png?v=1701842828"},{"product_id":"domaine-huet-vouvray-le-haut-lieu-moelleux-premiere-trie-2022","title":"Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux Première Trie 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eLe Haut Lieu was the estate’s first vineyard, purchased in 1928, and is situated on the Première Côte. As the name suggests, the house and the vineyards are located on a plateau with a slight south-facing gradient at one of the highest points of the appellation. It’s a nine-hectare plot on deep, brown, chalky clay (known as aubuis). Here, the yellow limestone (tuffeau) bedrock lies up to four metres down, making for a richer soil that produces round, supple wines that tend to drink well young. It generally produces the earliest maturing of the three cuvées and the first ready for drinking, but, like Clos du Bourg and Le Mont, the wines can be extremely long-lived. We have enjoyed bottles from the ’40s that are still drinking very well!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuet’s succulent moelleux wines (moelleux translates to ‘marrow-like’ and is pronounced ‘mweh-luh’) typically have between 40 and 60 g\/L residual sugar. They are made mainly from grapes that have dried on the vine (passerillage) rather than those affected by botrytis. 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The première trie wines can also work with desserts—but nothing too sweet (they’re better with cheeses).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine Huet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44512982106350,"sku":"24045-750","price":114.23,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/7468\/3630\/files\/2acb4260-e593-ee11-ac3e-0aa7bbf44e76_24045-750.png?v=1701842832"},{"product_id":"domaine-huet-vouvray-le-mont-moelleux-2003-museum-release","title":"Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Mont Moelleux 2003 (Museum Release)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePurchased in 1957, the steep, rocky, eight-hectare vineyard of Le Mont lies on Vouvray’s esteemed Première Côte, part of a bank of limestone-rich hillside vineyards overlooking Tours. This block's argilo-siliceux soils (stony with green mineral clays and flint over limestone) provide the tight structure and pungent minerality that Le Mont is renowned for. With less clay (and a different type of clay) and more stone than Le Haut-Lieu, this site typically produces the nerviest wines of the Huet stable, so mostly dry and off-dry whites are produced from this vineyard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine Huet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44512991477998,"sku":"24048-750","price":160.46,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/7468\/3630\/files\/a04fe114-e893-ee11-ac3e-02c0c1c8e708_24048-750.png?v=1701842845"},{"product_id":"domaine-huet-vouvray-le-haut-lieu-moelleux-2005-museum-release","title":"Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux 2005 (Museum Release)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhilst 2005 was not a prodigious year for botrytis, there were some superb, concentrated and minerally Moelleux produced thanks to the dry, warm conditions at harvest. Anyone who has enjoyed the 2005 Cuvée Constance from this producer will need no convincing. This isn't an unctuous sweet wine you can stand your spoon up in, instead the balance is pinpoint, the palate so fine and pure and complex—with citrus rind, bees wax and floral notes—and the finish crisp and refreshing. Lovely at 20 years of age, but can easily go another decade or two! It was bottled in 2006 with 52.2 g\/L of residual sugar and a total acidity of 4.2 g\/l.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine Huet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46468213244142,"sku":"25013-750","price":158.33,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/7468\/3630\/files\/b39e6846-172a-f011-ac43-0a5a9202f90d_25013-750.png?v=1746501424"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bibendum.com.au\/collections\/domaine-huet-back-vintages.oembed","provider":"Bibendum Wine Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}