Le Mont Moelleux

Name: Domaine Huet Le Mont Moelleux
Brand: Domaine Huet
SKU: WWW1860DH
Price: 4900 THB
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Domaine Huet: curated benchmark producer — Vouvray — reference Loire Chenin Blanc producer.

From our sommelier team

A medium-sweet, botrytis-influenced Chenin Blanc from Vouvray's Le Mont vineyard, built on the stony, mineral-driven Première Côte site that gives Domaine Huet's most reticent, longest-aging wines.

Le Mont Moelleux comes from Domaine Huet's Le Mont vineyard on Vouvray's Première Côte, a site with less clay and more stone than the estate's Le Haut-Lieu parcel, which tends to give young wines a pronounced minerality that opens with age. "Moelleux" is the sweetest of the estate's three sweetness tiers (after sec and demi-sec), made in years when botrytis (noble rot) develops enough to concentrate sugar and acidity in late-picked Chenin Blanc, so it is not produced identically every vintage. The house has farmed biodynamically since the early 1990s, and its style leans on natural fermentation, minimal intervention, and long aging in old barrels rather than new oak. Domaine Huet is widely regarded as the reference point for age-worthy Vouvray Chenin Blanc: the Moelleux wines are built around Chenin's naturally high acidity carrying the residual sugar, giving them a trajectory that can run from honeyed and floral in youth toward dried-fruit and beeswax tones over decades. Tasting notes across vintages describe aromas of pear, quince, pineapple, and apricot with a citrus-driven backbone that keeps the wine from tasting cloying.

Producer history

Domaine Huet was founded in 1928 in Vouvray by Victor Huet, a Parisian bistro owner who relocated to the region after the First World War and established the Le Haut-Lieu holding; his son Gaston Huet worked alongside him from the start and took full charge of the estate in 1937. The estate expanded onto the Première Côte with the purchase of Le Mont in 1957 (a Clos du Bourg parcel had been acquired a few years earlier). Gaston Huet's son-in-law, Noël Pinguet, joined the domaine in 1971 and ran winemaking from the mid-1970s until his departure in 2012, a period credited with cementing the estate's reputation and its adoption of biodynamic farming. Gaston Huet died in 2002, and French inheritance-tax obligations led the family to sell the estate; the American Hwang family (owners of Hungary's Királyudvár winery) acquired Domaine Huet in 2003. Across ownership changes the estate has kept its three original vineyard parcels and its commitment to biodynamic viticulture, and it remains widely cited as Vouvray's benchmark producer.

Signature pairings

Roquefort or other blue cheese — The classic Sauternes/Vouvray-moelleux pairing: the wine's residual sugar and bright acidity cut through blue cheese's salt and fat, a textbook sweet-wine-with-blue-cheese contrast.
Foie gras terrine — Botrytis-sweet Chenin's honeyed fruit and acid balance the richness of foie gras without either element overwhelming the other, a standard Loire pairing for moelleux styles.
Mango sticky rice (ข้าวเหนียวมะม่วง) — The wine's own stone-fruit and honeyed character mirrors ripe mango, and its acidity keeps the pairing fresh against the coconut cream's richness — a sweet-with-sweet match that works because the wine's acid stays higher than the dessert's.

Domaine Huet's Le Mont Moelleux is a benchmark expression of Vouvray's off-dry Chenin Blanc tradition. The 2002 vintage showcases the grape's natural affinity for honeyed stone fruit—quince and apricot—layered with citrus zest and subtle floral aromatics. Medium body and medium-high acidity provide freshness and structure, while mineral undertones and hints of dried fruit complexity suggest graceful aging potential. A versatile pairing for soft cheeses, pâtés, and delicate desserts.