Domaine Huet: Gaston Huet
Having been born in 1910 Gaston Huet was 18 years of age by the time the family came to Le Haut Lieu. While Victor set about making the wines, supported by Anna-Constance, Gaston left to study agriculture, and when he returned to the family home in the mid-1930s he was naturally on course to take over the running of the domaine. Just a few years after returning, in 1934, he married Germaine Foreau, André Foreau’s sister and thus an aunt of Philippe Foreau. The Foreau family owned extensive cellars on the Rue de la Croix Buisée, and with the marriage some of these came into the ownership of the Huet family. In 1935 winemaking moved from Le Haut Lieu to these new cellars, and Domaine Huet is still based here today, eight decades later.
In 1938 Gaston and Germaine had a daughter, Jacqueline, and it was also about now that Victor was due to hand over the reins of the domaine. But fate had other plans for Gaston, at least for the time being; war broke out in Europe yet again, and Gaston found himself enlisted in the French army. Victor carried on running the domaine, while his son went off to war, although not before he and Victor hid many of the domaine’s most precious bottles to prevent them from being looted by occupying forces. Germaine and their daughter Jacqueline remained at home.
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