Brief note: 1990 LHL sec

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SFJoe

Joe Dougherty
What an odd wine this is. Hidden among all the powerful sweet wines of 1990 from Huet is this sec. Can't call it this "little" sec, because it's pretty big.

But so much sun on these northerly chenin grapes: passerill flavors, toasted skins, but close to dry in the finish. Deeper gold than you might expect.

It's not by any means my favorite sec, it's quite atypical, but you can't say it doesn't fairly represent the vintage. Very interesting to have tried, don't need a million of them in the cellar.

Fun variety of life.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
Brief note: 1990 LHL secWhat an odd wine this is. Hidden among all the powerful sweet wines of 1990 from Huet is this sec. Can't call it this "little" sec, because it's pretty big.

But so much sun on these northerly chenin grapes, passerill flavors, toasted skins, but close to dry in the finish. Deeper gold than you might expect.

It's not by any means my favorite sec, it's quite atypical, but you can't say it doesn't fairly represent the vintage. Very interesting to have tried, don't need a million of them in the cellar.

Fun variety of life.
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Nice to see a note. Was bummed the one we were going to try was corked.
 
Thanks for this note. I'm a little confused, though, when you say "close to dry in the finish" does that mean it appears sweet before that?
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
Brief note: 1990 LHL secWhat an odd wine this is. Hidden among all the powerful sweet wines of 1990 from Huet is this sec. Can't call it this "little" sec, because it's pretty big.

But so much sun on these northerly chenin grapes: passerill flavors, toasted skins, but close to dry in the finish. Deeper gold than you might expect.

It's not by any means my favorite sec, it's quite atypical, but you can't say it doesn't fairly represent the vintage. Very interesting to have tried, don't need a million of them in the cellar.

Fun variety of life.
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Wow, opened one of mine back at the end of August, and I could seriously use a million of those in the cellar. Bare hints of off-dryness remaining, but mostly transitioned into pink and orange fruits, with very noticeable inner-mouth floral and dried miel de pritemps stuff. No deep golden, consisent with previous bottles.

These bottles were purchased at Garnet in the spring of 1994.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Thanks for this note. I'm a little confused, though, when you say "close to dry in the finish" does that mean it appears sweet before that?
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It has a lot of ripe, warm vintage, sunny summer things going on in the nose.
 
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