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DOMAINE HUET
Known both as Domaine le-Huet-Lieu and Domaine Huet, this estate has been the pre-eminent property in Vouvray for decades. The engaging, dynamic Gaston Huet, a World War II hero, ran the domaine from 1947 until his death in 2002 at the age of 92. (His son-in-law, Noël Pinguet, had been making the wines and tending the vineyards.)
Noël Pinguet has worked at the domaine since 1971 and has been solely responsible for its wines since 1974. For the past 29 years, this has been Noel Pinguet's winery. A soft-spoken yet extremely self-confident man, Pinguet strongly believes in working with what nature provides. He began shifting the estate to biodynamic farming in 1987, and converted all of its vineyards to this system by 1990. The vines are pruned tight to assure moderate yields. In the abundant 1997 vintage, the estate's yields were 37 hecotlieters per hectare, extremely low by Vouvray standards. Pinguet has never chaptalized nor acidified a wine. In vintages where the grapes does not attain high ripeness levels (1976 and 1984 for example) he does not produce sweet wines.
This great estate is somewhat rare in Vouvray because the wines are kept separate from their respective vineyards until just prior to bottling. All the vineyards, which have a perfect southern exposure allowing them to achieve maximum ripeness, produce the richest and longest-lived wines of the appellation. The great vintages from Huët-1947, 1959, 1989, 1990, and certainly 1997 and 2002-were all wines that will keep 50 years or more. Robert Parker,The World's Greatest Wine Estates (2005)
Vouvray, Le Haut Lieu Moelleux--Vintage 1945
Loire, G. Huët
Levels: 2cm or better
3 bottles per lot
Known both as Domaine le-Huet-Lieu and Domaine Huet, this estate has been the pre-eminent property in Vouvray for decades. The engaging, dynamic Gaston Huet, a World War II hero, ran the domaine from 1947 until his death in 2002 at the age of 92. (His son-in-law, Noël Pinguet, had been making the wines and tending the vineyards.)
Noël Pinguet has worked at the domaine since 1971 and has been solely responsible for its wines since 1974. For the past 29 years, this has been Noel Pinguet's winery. A soft-spoken yet extremely self-confident man, Pinguet strongly believes in working with what nature provides. He began shifting the estate to biodynamic farming in 1987, and converted all of its vineyards to this system by 1990. The vines are pruned tight to assure moderate yields. In the abundant 1997 vintage, the estate's yields were 37 hecotlieters per hectare, extremely low by Vouvray standards. Pinguet has never chaptalized nor acidified a wine. In vintages where the grapes does not attain high ripeness levels (1976 and 1984 for example) he does not produce sweet wines.
This great estate is somewhat rare in Vouvray because the wines are kept separate from their respective vineyards until just prior to bottling. All the vineyards, which have a perfect southern exposure allowing them to achieve maximum ripeness, produce the richest and longest-lived wines of the appellation. The great vintages from Huët-1947, 1959, 1989, 1990, and certainly 1997 and 2002-were all wines that will keep 50 years or more. Robert Parker,The World's Greatest Wine Estates (2005)
Vouvray, Le Haut Lieu Moelleux--Vintage 1945
Loire, G. Huët
Levels: 2cm or better
3 bottles per lot