Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Mont Sec 2021 vall-llach dried plum

dried plum

apricot pastry and a very elegant and supple

Lightly sweet and floral

With a remarkably complex bouquet

William Kelley is better known as the Wine Advocate's mould-breaking wine critic

Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Mont Sec 2021 vall-llach dried plumPurchased in 1957, the steep, rocky, eight hectare vineyard of Le Mont lies on Vouvrays esteemed Premire Cte, part of a bank of limestone rich hillside vineyards overlooking Tours. The argilo siliceux soils (stony, with green, mineral clays and flint over limestone) of this block provide the tight structure and pungent minerality that Le Mont is renowned for. With less clay (and a different type of clay) and more stone than Le Haut Lieu, this is a