Vouvray Le Clos du Bourg Demi-Sec, Domaine Huët 2001

The 2001 Clos du Bourg Demi-Sec is another outstanding wine in the making, which has now begun to move into its secondary phase of aromatic development, and is quite a bit deeper-pitched than its 2005 counterpart. The bouquet offers up a fine mélange of wet cobblestones, honey, candied quince, beeswax, floral tones and hints of the red fruit to come with a few more years of bottle age. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, deep and long, with lovely focus and mid-palate depth, and a long, crisp and racy finish that closes with a note of wet stone. This seems today to only need another five or six years of bottle age to really begin to drink well, but I may be underestimating how long it will take to fully blossom by a few years. (Drink between 2012-2050)