Domaine Huet, Vouvray Sec "Le Haut Lieu", 2019 CHAMPCOUNT2026 tightly packed fruit

tightly packed fruit

but also electric and dry

and based on the lean and energetic 2021 vintage

spicier and altogether more contemplative

Domaine Huet, Vouvray Sec "Le Haut Lieu", 2019 CHAMPCOUNT2026 tightly packed fruit2019 gave Vouvray such good raw material for dry wine that Huet's cellar made almost nothing but Sec that year. Le Haut Lieu is the estate's founding vineyard the parcel the Huet family bought in 1928 and its deep clay over limestone on the Premire Cte gives the most open and generous of the domaine's three crus, where Le Mont is all mineral cut and Clos du Bourg is the powerful one. Huet farmed biodynamically from 1990 and has been certified since