Huet 2024 Vouvray Le Mont Sec

As is frequently noted, the "Le Mont" Sec needs time to open up and reveal it's mineral mysteries, so be sure to get some "Le Haut Lieu" for current drinking. "The 2024 Vouvray “Le Mont” Sec from Domaine Huët is just a touch riper than the Le Haut Lieu bottling, coming in at an even thirteen percent alcohol in this vintage. The wine is deep and complex aromatically, but a bit more reticent in personality than the Le Haut Lieu, offering up scents of quince, hints of pear, a beautiful base of chalky soil tones, a bit of orange peel, lanolin and a topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and rock solid at the core, with fairly broad shoulders, a fine base of soil, zesty acids and a long, well balanced and still very primary finish. Unlike the Le Haut Lieu Sec, the Le Mont is going to insist on some hibernation time before it starts to blossom and drink with a degree of generosity. Drink 2030-2075+"