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Domaine Huet Vouvray Cuvée Constance 2018 (500ml)

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Domaine Huet Vouvray Cuvée Constance 2018 (500ml)
Producer Domaine Huet
Region, Country Vouvray, France
Bottle Size 500ml
Case Size 12
Product Code 21541-500

The pinnacle of Huet’s production was named after Gaston Huet’s mother, Constance, and ranks among the world’s greatest dessert wines. It’s only made in the greatest sweet wine vintages and 2018 is certainly one of those (and only the third bottling of the previous decade). It’s made from a blend of the most concentrated botrytised fruit from all three of Huet’s big-ticket vineyards (Le Mont, Le Haut-Lieu and Clos du Bourg).

This was raised half in used demi-muid, half in stainless and finished fermenting with around 160 g/L residual sugar and 11.5% ABV. Stunningly pure, intense and ethereal, this nectar floats across the palate with crystalline flavours of gingerbread, spice and quince jelly, closing with an energetic and precise finish that belies its latent power. Tasting is believing. It will live for at least another four decades, and yet, it is a joy to drink now. In short, even if you rarely drink sweet wines, you will never regret having this in your cellar.

Domaine Huet Vouvray Cuvée Constance 2018 (500ml)

Reviews

“The 2018 Vouvray “Cuvée Constance” from Domaine Huët is a stunning young wine. The bouquet is deep, pure and youthfully complex, offering up scents of sweet quince, honeycomb, barley sugar, heather, chalky soil tones and a topnote of orange peel. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a great core of fruit, lovely soil undertow and grip, zesty acids and a long, hauntingly balanced and refined finish. This is a puppy today, but also delicious to drink in its youthful guise. I would do my best to try and hold onto bottles for at least another decade and really let the fireworks unfold!”
97 points, John Gilman, A View From The Cellar
“A heavenly wine, with a beautiful earthiness rippling through decadent flavors of poached pear, stewed apple, honeycomb, pastry and spiced fig. Stealth power underscores the up-front fruit, with steely mineral, refreshing lemon verbena and crushed dried herbs adding balance and vibrancy. A stunner.”
96 points, Wine Spectator

Reviews

“The 2018 Vouvray “Cuvée Constance” from Domaine Huët is a stunning young wine. The bouquet is deep, pure and youthfully complex, offering up scents of sweet quince, honeycomb, barley sugar, heather, chalky soil tones and a topnote of orange peel. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a great core of fruit, lovely soil undertow and grip, zesty acids and a long, hauntingly balanced and refined finish. This is a puppy today, but also delicious to drink in its youthful guise. I would do my best to try and hold onto bottles for at least another decade and really let the fireworks unfold!”
97 points, John Gilman, A View From The Cellar
“A heavenly wine, with a beautiful earthiness rippling through decadent flavors of poached pear, stewed apple, honeycomb, pastry and spiced fig. Stealth power underscores the up-front fruit, with steely mineral, refreshing lemon verbena and crushed dried herbs adding balance and vibrancy. A stunner.”
96 points, Wine Spectator

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