Half Bottle/Sweet yet racy. If the vintage allows, each vineyard may produce a Moelleux 1er Trie (the first picking of botrytised fruit). This first selection of botrytised berries produces a wine with a residual sugar level of about 60-100 g/lt and yet one that is also packed with ripe acidity. It is this interplay of sweetness and vibrant freshness, like the greatest wines of the Mosel, that makes this wine so delicious and so sought after. Imagine the greatest pieces of fruit you ever had: the sweetest, the freshest, the juiciest. Well, this is the vinous equivalent but it's even better. It offers a succulence, an intensity, a raciness that fruit cannot hope to match. Little wonder that Huet's 1er Trie wines are some of the most revered in the entire Loire valley. This is brilliant stuff, intensely racy, the finish almost dry, yet the residual is 68g/l! Simply a stunning drink.
"Full-bodied, with sweet earth, truffle, graham cracker, honey and spice aromas and flavors. Also shows matchstick and apple flavors. Long, sweet finish ripples with acidity. Shows more flash and power now from its sweetness. Minerality should develop with time. Drink now through 2020." 94 points, Wine Spectator, July 2005