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The May 2024 Auction: Part 4
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"Domaine Huët’s 2013 Clos du Bourg Sec shares a slightly higher octane with the Le Mont this year, coming in at an even thirteen percent, and the wine offers up a more youthful profile than either of the other two Sec bottlings this year from the estate. The fairly reticent nose is deep and potentially complex, offering up scents of quince, lemon, a touch of bee pollen, lanolin, a beautifully complex base of soil, orange peel and a gently smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and full-bodied, with a superb core of fruit, a still fairly primary profile, sound acids, lovely focus and grip and again, a bit of backend tannin in evidence out of the blocks on the very long finish, which will probably make this one of the longest-lived Vouvrays of the vintage. Once again, this is not a typical vintage of Clos du Bourg Sec, but the wine has really turned out well and transcends the vagaries of the vintage. I would give this at least a year in the cellar to let it start to show its secondary layers of complexity."
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"Domaine Huët’s 2013 Clos du Bourg Sec shares a slightly higher octane with the Le Mont this year, coming in at an even thirteen percent, and the wine offers up a more youthful profile than either of the other two Sec bottlings this year from the estate. The fairly reticent nose is deep and potentially complex, offering up scents of quince, lemon, a touch of bee pollen, lanolin, a beautifully complex base of soil, orange peel and a gently smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and full-bodied, with a superb core of fruit, a still fairly primary profile, sound acids, lovely focus and grip and again, a bit of backend tannin in evidence out of the blocks on the very long finish, which will probably make this one of the longest-lived Vouvrays of the vintage. Once again, this is not a typical vintage of Clos du Bourg Sec, but the wine has really turned out well and transcends the vagaries of the vintage. I would give this at least a year in the cellar to let it start to show its secondary layers of complexity."
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A versatile Loire white of high acidity, making dry, sweet and sparkling wines of honey, quince and remarkable longevity.