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The September 2023 Auction: Part 2
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Estimate: $60
Lightly scuffed capsule.
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95+JG
"The 2015 Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu “Franc de Pied” from Domaine Huët hails from a parcel of ungrafted vines that were planted in a small section of the Le Haut-Lieu vineyard back in 1985. Though I visited the vines with Noël Pinguet while working on my feature on the estate in 2007, this is the first time I have ever tasted a bottling from this parcel of vines. The 2015 Franc de Pieds offers up a beautifully refined and youthful bouquet of lemon, sweet quince, chalky soil tones, bee pollen, just a whisper of lanolin and a topnote of lemon blossoms. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and very elegant in profile, with Demi-Sec level of sweetness, beautiful focus and balance, stunning grip and a very, very long, nascently complex and absolutely stellar finish. Like other wines I have tasted from ungrafted French roots, there is a sense of delicacy here that goes beyond what is produced from the grafted vines in Le Haut-Lieu. Fine, fine juice in the making."
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"The 2015 Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu “Franc de Pied” from Domaine Huët hails from a parcel of ungrafted vines that were planted in a small section of the Le Haut-Lieu vineyard back in 1985. Though I visited the vines with Noël Pinguet while working on my feature on the estate in 2007, this is the first time I have ever tasted a bottling from this parcel of vines. The 2015 Franc de Pieds offers up a beautifully refined and youthful bouquet of lemon, sweet quince, chalky soil tones, bee pollen, just a whisper of lanolin and a topnote of lemon blossoms. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and very elegant in profile, with Demi-Sec level of sweetness, beautiful focus and balance, stunning grip and a very, very long, nascently complex and absolutely stellar finish. Like other wines I have tasted from ungrafted French roots, there is a sense of delicacy here that goes beyond what is produced from the grafted vines in Le Haut-Lieu. Fine, fine juice in the making."
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A versatile Loire white of high acidity, making dry, sweet and sparkling wines of honey, quince and remarkable longevity.