Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Demi-Sec
Bourgoin Raisin Eau de Vie ‘Double Zero'
Domaine des Carlines Côtes du Jura 'En Lya'
Marc Bredif Vouvray Grande Annee Museum Release
Domaine François Chidaine Montlouis Clos Habert
Domaine Adrien Berlioz Savoie 'Lucien' white
Oratoire St Martin Cairanne Haut Coustias Blanc
Domaine Huet Vouvray Le Haut Lieu Moelleux
Le Haut-Lieu was the estate’s first vineyard, purchased in 1928. Situated on the Première Côte, it’s a 9-hectare plot on deep brown chalky clay (known as aubuis). Here the yellow limestone (tuffeau) bedrock lies up to four metres down, making for a richer soil that produces round, supple wines that can drink very well young. It generally produces the earliest maturing of the three cuvées and is usually ready to drink first, but, like Clos du Bourg and Le Mont, the wines can be extremely long-lived. We have enjoyed bottles from the ‘40s that are still drinking very well!