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Vouvray Le Haut Lieu Moelleux 1924, Gaston Huët
Region: -Loire
Type: Sweet
Rating: 92
Guide Price: 146.00
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5/8 wine in flight
Big lesson number 2 for these old top-end Vouvray – botrytis has a much bigger role to play in terms of colour than the age of this wine does. This was a relatively youthful-coloured example.
This wine has 50g/l residual sugar and 7g of acidity with 9.6% alcohol (the only wine I noticed alcohol on was the 1959 – sadly I didn’t get the stats on that one).
My tasting note: Bright green-gold; lovely rich nose with real complexity, some VA and a herby, fennel-like note, plus citrus; palate shows more richness than the 1935, a herby, fennel-like quality again on the palate, great balance and freshness and mandarin-like fruit – a slight bitterness on the finish.
My tasting neighbour and friend Alex Hunt thought there was a little too much sulphur added during wine-making.
Anthony Hanson MW – roasted mandarin on the nose with some geranium sweetness and herbiness; concentrated on the palate, leaner and with greater acidity than the 1935 – yet not as harmonious.
Tasted at Christie’s, London, Thursday 6th May 2004.
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