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Domaine Huet Vouvray Clos du Bourg Moelleux 2018

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Domaine Huet Vouvray Clos du Bourg Moelleux 2018
Producer Domaine Huet
Region, Country Vouvray, France
Bottle Size 750ml
Product Code 17975-750

Medium sweet. The walls that enclose this six hectare site help facilitate a more humid microclimate favourable to botrytis. For this reason—and notwithstanding the magnificent dry wines from the Clos—this Huet vineyard is the one that most often produces sweet wines from grapes affected by either botrytis or passerillage.

2018 gave us great sweet Clos de Bourg. Finishing with 56 g/L, this offers up pure aromas of mixed candied peel, mandarin and apricot, with bergamot and juniper. It’s simply glorious, the most floral, nuanced and multifaceted of Huet’s Moelleux this year. There’s also the vineyard’s distinctive smoky minerality and intense tanginess on the finish. In spite of the name, this needn’t be served as a dessert wine; the wine’s firm structure and cleansing acidity suggest you go savoury. Try it alongside something like slow-cooked lamb, a saucy curry, or a slab of well-matured Comté.

Domaine Huet Vouvray Clos du Bourg Moelleux 2018

Reviews

“The 2018 Vouvray Clos du Bourg Moelleux is ripe and already quite open on the remarkably fine and precise nose where delicate chalky notes intermix with yeasty aromas of ripe apples and even very fine flinty hints. On the palate, this is a sweet, lush, salty-piquant and refined but tightly woven Chenin with structure, remarkable finesse, tickling salinity and serious but fine tannins, as if it was a Pinot Noir. Filigreed and feminine on the tongue, the 2018 develops a long, tensioned, tightly woven and stimulatingly salty finish. Great class and aging potential.”
95 points, Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate
“Very elegant, with juicy acidity underscoring notes of vanilla bean, piecrust, quince paste and white flowers. The velvety texture adds to the charm, while a minerally backbone imparts brightness and adds to the complexity. Offers a long, inviting finish. Drink now through 2034.”
93 points, Wine Spectator

Reviews

“The 2018 Vouvray Clos du Bourg Moelleux is ripe and already quite open on the remarkably fine and precise nose where delicate chalky notes intermix with yeasty aromas of ripe apples and even very fine flinty hints. On the palate, this is a sweet, lush, salty-piquant and refined but tightly woven Chenin with structure, remarkable finesse, tickling salinity and serious but fine tannins, as if it was a Pinot Noir. Filigreed and feminine on the tongue, the 2018 develops a long, tensioned, tightly woven and stimulatingly salty finish. Great class and aging potential.”
95 points, Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate
“Very elegant, with juicy acidity underscoring notes of vanilla bean, piecrust, quince paste and white flowers. The velvety texture adds to the charm, while a minerally backbone imparts brightness and adds to the complexity. Offers a long, inviting finish. Drink now through 2034.”
93 points, Wine Spectator

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