Chenin Blanc
Bottle
£11.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 3cs
Bottle
£14.95
Bottle 12 x 75cl 21cs
Bottle
£16.50
Bottle 6 x 75cl 5cs
This Chenin Blanc has a glorious depth of flavour and rich mouth-feel, with aromas of orchard fruit, greengage and honeysuckle on the nose. Stony, savoury notes underpin the honeyed fruit on the palate, while fresh acidity brings added vibrancy. Drink now to 2022.
Bottle
£17.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 12cs
Bottle
£21.50
Bottle 6 x 75cl 85cs
Will Heslop, Burgundy Buying Assistant (summer 2019)
Bottle
£21.95
Bottle 12 x 75cl 5cs
Bottle
£22.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
Bottle
£24.50
Bottle 6 x 75cl 10cs
Bottle
£24.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 18cs
Half-btl
£29.25
Half-btl 6 x 37.5cl 6cs
This luxurious Chenin Blanc comes from a sunny, single-hectare parcel near Puy-Notre-Dame. Expect aromas of ripe stone and orchard fruit, as well as notes of buttered toast attributable to a year’s élevage in new 600-litre oak barrels. The palate is full and voluptuous, yet balanced, with refreshing acidity. Drink now to 2025.
Bottle
£29.95
Bottle
£45.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 3cs
Half-btl
£51.00
Half-btl 12 x 37.5cl 2cs
Burnished gold in colour, the nose is full of spiced orange, cloves, a touch of quince and lemon rind, and hints of anise. This wine is lovely and mouth-filling and yet has surprisingly high acidity and a dryness that gives the wine a beautiful mouth-watering snap.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Half-btl
£100.00
A big, deep, rich honeyed bouquet leaps from the glass. The palate is, unsurprisingly, youthful, but is also wonderfully luscious. There’s plenty of sweet, mouth-filling fruit and enough acidity to make one involuntarily drool. Drink it now or tuck away for decades.
Case price (Magnum 1 x 150cl)
Magnum 1 x 150cl 26cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
Magnum 3 x 150cl 1cs
An intense gold colour, there is plenty on offer on the nose: lanolin, caramel and apple crumble to name but a few notes. Gloriously honeyed on the palate, there is a streak of vibrant freshness that stops any cloying sweetness. The finish is incredibly long and persistent. Wonderful!
Bottle
£140.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Magnum 1 x 150cl 1cs
This is a jam-packed glassful with waxy lemons and fresh orange peel on the nose, then a bitter toffee character. The combination of ripe nectarine sweetness with refreshing acidity delivers a perfectly judged and beautifully balanced wine. Quite simply, you can taste the care taken in producing this wine.
Bottle
£140.68
Case price (Magnum 1 x 150cl)
Magnum 1 x 150cl 12cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Magnum 1 x 150cl 1cs
Magnum 1 x 150cl 3cs
Magnum 1 x 150cl 1cs
Chris Pollington, Account Manager
First things first – 1989 is a stunning vintage, one of the best in the 20th Century for the Huet wines. Essai relates to a 1ha vineyard parcel of Le Clos du Bourg which the Huet family decided to apply biodynamic principles. There is a distinctly greater level of development and general largesse to the palate here over the ‘usual’ 1989 Moelleux. This is an expansive and mouth filling wine, lusciously sweet and tropical this has decades of age ahead of it but perfectly balanced meaning it can be enjoyed now. .
Gary Owen, Account Manager
Bottle
£160.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
A real beauty on the palate, all in place and all as it should be, plenty of rich honey fruit, mouth-filling sweetness and beautifully balanced with perfect acidity, deep, long and delightful. Almost as good as the 1947.
Chris Pollington - Private Account Manager
Extremely dark in colour, the colour of caramel I dip apples in on Bonfire Night in fact. The toffee apple note appears on the nose too, but the palate is extraordinarily complex. Interwoven marzipan, sweet apricot and a whole variety of yellow stone fruit stride elegantly across the palate. Darker, more concentrated and sweeter than the 1961 Clos de Bourg this 1959 tries to make you think it is a big brute of a wine which is dead set on knocking you over with intensity and richness, but it’s just too refined and elegant to do that. It’ll tap you on the shoulder and ask you to have another glass, if you wouldn’t mind awfully, Sir.
Gary Owen, Account Manager
Half-btl
£195.00
Magnum
£252.00
Magnum 1 x 150cl 66cs
Bottle
£279.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle
£465.00
Fine Wine Team
There was a much smaller quantity of the 1945 wines made due to frosts for eight days in May. It would seem this concentrated the quality and the finest rounds of natural selection took place as what was left has made astonishingly fantastic wine. The nose is a tumult of preserved and lightly caramelised lemons. Beneath this there is layer upon layer of complex white nuts and subtle dairy, almost creaminess framed by a focussed subtle dryness.
Gary Owen, Account Manager
Bottle
£565.00
Bottle
£10,000.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Chenin Blanc is an important white grape variety planted in the Anjou-Saumur and Touraine regions of the Loire Valley and the most widely planted varietal grape in South Africa.
In the Loire it produces high quality dry wines in Savenniéres, and luscious sweet, dessert wines in Coteaux du Layon, Bonnezeaux and Quarts de Chaume. In Vouvray and Montlouis it can be dry, medium dry, or sweet, and still or sparkling. Whether dry or sweet, the best Loire Chenin Blancs possess marvellously concentrated rich, honeyed fruit together with refreshingly vibrant acidity. It is Chenin Blanc's high acidity that enable the wines to age so well.
In South Africa Chenin Blanc is easier to grow and is prized for its versatility. It is used as a cheap blending option with Chardonnay, Colombard, and Muscat but also bottled unblended. The best producers keep their yields low and produce impressive mouthfilling wines.