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The September 2023 Auction: Part 2
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Estimate: $60
2.5cm.
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"The 2014 version of Franc de Pied from Domaine Huët’s Le Haut-Lieu vineyard is drier than the 2015 version and is a proper Sec bottling. It is also starting to close down at five years of age and getting ready to hibernate for a handful of years, so it is best to buy it now and tuck it away in the cellar for future pleasure. The bouquet is starting to show the first signs of that chalk dustiness of adolescence, countering this with lovely notes of lemon peel, apple, quince, chalky minerality, lanolin and dried flowers. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and soil-driven, with an excellent core of fruit, bright acids and outstanding length and grip on the promising, but closing finish. This is amazingly long on the backend and is going to be a profound wine in due course, but one will need to either drink a bottle in the coming six to twelve months, or let it go to sleep in a cool corner of the cellar for a decade."
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"The 2014 version of Franc de Pied from Domaine Huët’s Le Haut-Lieu vineyard is drier than the 2015 version and is a proper Sec bottling. It is also starting to close down at five years of age and getting ready to hibernate for a handful of years, so it is best to buy it now and tuck it away in the cellar for future pleasure. The bouquet is starting to show the first signs of that chalk dustiness of adolescence, countering this with lovely notes of lemon peel, apple, quince, chalky minerality, lanolin and dried flowers. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and soil-driven, with an excellent core of fruit, bright acids and outstanding length and grip on the promising, but closing finish. This is amazingly long on the backend and is going to be a profound wine in due course, but one will need to either drink a bottle in the coming six to twelve months, or let it go to sleep in a cool corner of the cellar for a decade."
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A versatile Loire white of high acidity, making dry, sweet and sparkling wines of honey, quince and remarkable longevity.