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Huët Vouvray Sec le Haut-Lieu 1996

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Huët Vouvray Sec le Haut-Lieu (1996)
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Chenin Blanc is one of the world's least-known and appreciated great white wine grapes. Originally from France's Loire Valley, Chenin Blanc has spread around the globe and is used for virtually all styles of white wine, from crisp and lean to rich, round full table wines, sparkling wines, and some of the most decadent dessert wines made. Classic descriptors for the flavors of Chenin Blanc include peach, honey, lanolin, marzipan, and quince jelly though the dry style from South Africa, where the wines are known as Steen, often exhibits more tropical fruit notes that recall pineapple and guava.

Winemakers Notes

Compared to the cool dense green stone of Le Mont, Haut Lieu higher up on the<br/>plateau is an altogether more facile terroir, iron rich and red. The Vouvray<br/>wines tend to be fruitier than the quivering Le Mont, yet deceptively so for<br/>Haut-Lieu ages just as well. Take this wine: the nose a fascinating weave of<br/>beewax, honey, straw, brioche, even of cellar mould (they grow mushrooms in<br/>those trogladyt white cellars you know), while the palate's drier than<br/>expected, bone-dry even, bone-china pure (as is Haut-Lieu's read more...

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