Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Dry 2023 Domaine Huet

Domaine Huet's Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Sec 2023 comes from the estate's original vineyard, the one with which Gaston Huet founded the history of this estate in 1928. Haut-Lieu is the largest of the estate's three crus, spanning approximately 9 hectares on the Première Côte of Vouvray: deep clay-limestone soils, the richest among the three vineyards, which give Chenin Blanc a softness and generosity that make it the most accessible of the three in its youth, without sacrificing the complexity and longevity that are the hallmark of the estate.

Sec is the most demanding style to make in Vouvray: with only 6–7 g/l of residual sugar, there is no sweetness to mediate between the wine and the drinker. Every imperfection is exposed, every quality of the terroir is amplified. In Huet's hands, Sec is never austere: it is taut, clean, mineral, with a depth that requires a few years in bottle to fully unfold.