Country: France

Region: Loire

Vintage: 2022

Cépage: Chenin Blanc (100%)

Size: 750 ml

Rating(s): NR

Since its founding in 1928, Vouvray’s Domaine Huet has been the standard-bearer for great, age-worthy Chenin Blanc. And to this day, year after year, the estate produces some of the world’s most compelling white wines—and in a remarkable range that spans sparkling, dry, semi-dry, and breathtaking dessert styles.

The 2022 Vouvray “le Haut Lieu” Moelleux from Domaine Huët is another gorgeous wine in the making, sharing the same sense of eternal elegance that is found in the Demi-Sec version. The bouquet is deep, vibrant and complex, soaring from the glass in a mix of sweet quince, fresh pineapple, honeycomb, incipient notes of yellow plum, lovely soil tones, bee pollen and musky floral tones. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and complex, with gorgeous depth of fruit, fine soil undertow and grip, a lovely spine of acidity and exquisite balance on the long, complex and very refined finish. Like the Sec and Demi-Sec bottlings, this wine will present a few years where it is open and very enjoyable to drink, followed by a plunge into deep hibernation where it will demand a decade of sleep time. After which, it will be virtually timeless in its drinking beauty.