Domaine Huet 2025s & More Loire Chenin!
10/31/26 -
Today's email features the 2025 vintage at Domaine Huet in Vouvray. The estate produced no dry wines in 2025, and only one demi-sec, from Le Haut-Lieu. All other cuvées are Moelleux, with sweetness levels ranging from 60 gr/l RS up to 192 gr/l RS for the Clos du Bourg 1èr Trie and Cuvée Constance.
Sarah Hwang of Domaine Huet on the 2025 vinvage: "The vineyards were beautiful throughout the growing season. The vines were healthy and vigorous and, as harvest approached, the fruit brought together freshness, concentration, and structure that is rare even in the finest years. We made successive passes through Le Haut-Lieu, Le Mont and Clos du Bourg. With each passage, the fruit changed in character, from ripe, luminous grapes with beautiful acidity to berries of increasing depth and concentration. As harvest advanced, the conditions came together for the moelleux and liquoreux that have defined Vouvray's most memorable vintages. The vintage gave us a Le Haut-Lieu Demi-Sec, a Moelleux and Moelleux Première Trie from each of our three vineyard sites, as well as a Cuvée Constance, produced only in exceptional years. For us, it’s hard not to feel something special about the 2025s. The wines will ultimately tell their own story and time will continue its work, but we sensed it very early, first in the vineyards, then in the juices, and now even more clearly in the wines."
Tasting a mature moelleux from Huet is one of the greatest pleasures of wine - I would certainly include an Huet 1921, and an Haut-Lieu 1947 as among my very greatest thrills. So buy a few to enjoy now in their magnificent youth and get a few more to put away for 20, 30, 40 years and more, or as a gift to someone for the future.
(For those who prefer their Chenin Blanc in a dryer style, in 2023, and especially in 2024, superb dry and sec-tendre Chenins were made in Anjou and Touraine and we include a selection of the best examples from Domaine Jousset, François Chidaine, the Domaine Aux Moines, Domaine Closel, Domaine Pinon and the Ferme du Mont Benault.)
Please note – the Huet wines are offered at low non-discountable prices, for those wishing to try just a few of the wines – all other wines discount 10% on a case or mixed case.
-David Lillie
