With a fine, rich chicken soup which showed it's Brooklyn roots.
This is very young, and was cold to boot in spite of a sojourn in front of the wood stove. Nice licorice nose with a hard to pin down hint: angelica? sage? Fine colour, closed at first but with time opening into a lovely fresh S-C, all fruit and stem, forward but with a real fleshy backbone.
Ch. Hureau is always good, 05 was a very good Loire year, makes me a bit sorry I only bought the basic (traditional) wine. (This said the cuvées -- and Coteaux -- are getting very expensive from this property.) Or wish that I bought more than a case and a half.
This wine will do very nicely for the next 5-8 years, certainly.
-E