The 2018 Demi-Sec Le Haut-Lieu offers up a beguiling mix of candied lemon peel, passion fruit, jasmine, ginger and marzipan. Medium in body and intensely perfumed, the Demi-Sec is so harmonious. Bright saline underpinnings add a lovely counterpoint to the wine's natural richness.

"The bouquet offers up a nascently complex mix of peach, sweet quince, bee pollen, chalky soil tones, white cherries and a topnote of spring flowers. On the palate the wine is full, pure and offers up outstanding elegance and complexity, with a fine core of fruit, excellent transparency, zesty acids and fine focus and grip on the very long, poised and beautifully balanced finish. This is going to be a very, very special vintage of Le Haut Lieu Demi-Sec. The wine is already delicious, but this is only the tip of the iceberg..."

"A really classic nose, loaded with very typical Chenin and Vouvray scents of citrus fruits, white flowers and a powdery minerality. This has simply beautiful poise, fresh and pure, so elegant and precise. This beautiful presence persists through the palate, with delicious energy in the middle, keeping it all really fresh, with the fruit profile opening out into a white-peach purity. This is a classic in the making."