Domaine Gaston Huet

Domaine Gaston Huet

 
Gaston Huet and his wife built up a domaine with a formidable reputation over the years following its creation by Victor Huet, his father, in 1928. Gaston, war hero and one-time mayor of Vouvray, managed the family domaine from 1947 until his death in 2002. He was a prisoner for most of the Second World War and longed for his home and for the taste of his Vouvray. He managed to arrange a special wine celebration in the POW camp. "It saved our sanity… Talking about wine and sharing it made all of us feel closer to home and more alive. It was only a thimbleful but it was glorious and the best wine I ever drank."

The Huet Style
The entirety of the vineyard plantings at the estate were given over to the versatile and often under-appreciated Chenin Blanc. Climate plays a huge part in the wine-making in each vintage with warmer years creating unctuously sweet wines (mo?lleux for which Huet is renowned and doux the sweetest of all styles). Cooler vintages result in fruit which is used in the production of vivacious demi-sec, bone-dry sec or pétillant sparkling wines. It is important to emphasise that regardless of the sweetness level, the hallmark of Chenin Blanc and indeed Domaine Gaston Huet is an unmistakable freshness and natural acidity which permit the wines to age for centuries

Biodynamic techniques have been used at all of Domaine Huet's vineyards since 1990. The estate comprises three vineyards, all with their own unique blueprint and personality: Le Haut-Lieu, Le Clos du Bourg and Le Mont. The original vineyard, Le Haut-Lieu (literally meaning ‘the high place’) surrounds the house and extends for some nine hectares. The soil is made up of three metres of clay at the surface, underpinned by Vouvray’s famous sedimentary limestone. Its wines are opulent and approachable when young but are genuine vins de gardes and benefit from long-term ageing.

Le Clos du Bourg, which was purchased by Gaston in 1953, is the oldest site in the appellation of Vouvray, dating back to the eighth century. The allure of this vineyard is not entirely contained within its neat and historic walls but moreover its reputation for producing formidable sweet wines. The final musketeer completing the trio is the most famous, Le Mont, with its green-tinged soils and late-harvesting vines from which Gaston produced his longest-lived and arguably most famous wines.

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2015 Vouvray Moelleux, Cuvée Constance, Domaine Gaston Huët, Loire
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2015
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Medium Bodied
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11.5% Alcohol
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1989 Vouvray, Le Haut-Lieu, Moelleux Première Trie, Domaine Huet, Loire
White
1989
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Medium Bodied
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13.0% Alcohol
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1989 Assortment case 3, Domaine Gaston Huet, 2014 Release (6bts)
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Medium Bodied
Luscious
13.0% Alcohol
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Haut Lieu, Domaine Gaston Huet, Assort case 2, 2014 Release(6bts)
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13.0% Alcohol
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1989 Assortment case 2, Domaine Gaston Huet, 2014 Release (6bts)
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13.0% Alcohol
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1989 Assortment case, Domaine Gaston Huet, 2014 Release (6bts)
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Medium Bodied
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13.0% Alcohol
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1935 Vouvray, Le Haut-Lieu, Moelleux, Domaine Huet, Loire
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1935
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11.5% Alcohol
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1945 Vouvray, Le Haut-Lieu, Demi-Sec, Domaine Huet, Loire
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1945
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11.5% Alcohol
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1989 Vouvray, Le Mont, Moelleux, Fin Pressée, Domaine Huet
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1989
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13.5% Alcohol
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1989 Vouvray, Le Mont, Moelleux Première Trie, Domaine Huet, Loire
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1989
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13.0% Alcohol
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1989 Vouvray, Le Clos du Bourg, Moelleux Essai, Domaine Huet
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1989
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9.5% Alcohol
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1970 Vouvray, Le Haut-Lieu, Demi-Sec, Domaine Huet, Loire
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1970
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1961 Vouvray, Le Mont, Moelleux Première Trie, Domaine Huet, Loire
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1961
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11.5% Alcohol
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1989 Vouvray, Le Haut-Lieu, Moelleux, Domaine Huet, Loire
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1989
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12.0% Alcohol
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1989 Vouvray, Cuvée Constance, Moelleux Domaine Huet
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1989
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11.5% Alcohol
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1989 Vouvray, Le Clos du Bourg, Moelleux Temoin, 1ère Trie, Domaine Huet
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1989
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9.0% Alcohol
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1959 Vouvray, Clos du Bourg, Demi-Sec, Domaine Huet, Loire
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1959
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11.5% Alcohol
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2008 Vouvray, Clos du Bourg, Moelleux Première Trie, Domaine Huet, Loire
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2008
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12.5% Alcohol
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