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Wine Advocate: 95 Points
The deep brown clay soils of the Haut-Lieu plateau provide the typical fruitiness and freshness wonderfully in Huet's 2019 Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Sec. Ripe pear tangerine and orange fruits with notes of lemon grass and green pimientos intertwined with very fine chalky and later tobacco notes give a remarkably fine elegant and harmonious subtly complex and simply gorgeous bouquet with floral (lime blossom!) and yeasty aromas that are immediately attractive. Delicate and linear on the palate this is a pure fresh bone-dry lean and textured highly refined and perfectly interwoven Chenin with persistent purity finesse salty-mineral tension and very fine tannins. Highly finessed and so pure and vivacious! This is a chalky picture-book Haut-Lieu that can age for many years even though it is already dangerously seductive! There was no dry Le Haut-Lieu produced in 2018 but the 2019 is possibly the finest most delicate and elegant I've had in recent years at least at this early stage. A terrific and buoyant Vouvray that any Chenin lover should try?or better yet cellar! 13% alcohol. 80000 bottles made. Tasted in July 2020.
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