'99 Luneau-Papin Le L D'Or

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Marc D

Marc Davis
A fabulous bottle, in a great place right now.
It seems fresh but with some mature flavors also.
Precise expressive nose of saline, tonic, nori, and citrus.
In the mouth things round and drift a bit, with honey and stones, and maybe less acidity than in other vintages, but it all works very well together.
Probably room for further development, but I'm not sure it could get much better then tonight. $21, a little more with delivery.
 
originally posted by Marc D:
'99 Luneau-Papin Le L D'OrA fabulous bottle, in a great place right now.
It seems fresh but with some mature flavors also.
Precise expressive nose of saline, tonic, nori, and citrus. $21, a little more with delivery.
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Sounds great. And with that 'high' price I'm guessing it was purchased recently/not on release?
 
A recent purchase from Chambers St Wines. David Lillie said it was ready to drink.

I started buying Le L D'Or yearly with the 2002 vintage. The 1989 vintage that was a later release has been sort of a personal reference standard for Muscadet.
 
originally posted by Matteo Mollo:
Ive got an 89 waiting around to drink. Likely in the spring at our now annual oyster fest in my back yard.
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I hope you have a great bottle, this wine has always been superb when I have tried it.
 
Thanks, me too. Looking forward to it. Seth was kind enough to add many a great muscadet to the linup as well, incluing some very fun mags of Briords.
 
originally posted by Marc D:
I started buying Le L D'Or yearly with the 2002 vintage.
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Lovely idea. I don't see it too often here in Japan, otherwise I'd do the same. It's so great on release though, and I know more than a few folks here talk about it being able to go the distance, but....what does it gain from aging exactly? More contemplative depth and nuance? Still food friendly? (Not challenging...rather just asking out of complete naive innocence...)
 
originally posted by Joel Stewart:but....what does it gain from aging exactly? More contemplative depth and nuance? Still food friendly?
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Sure. And often gaining more golden richness. Some have compared the aging trajectory to Chablis. Obviously you need your grains of salt and all that, but it might help as a frame of reference.
 
originally posted by BJ:
Sounds great Marc. I love L D'Or. I wish I'd bought 3 or 4 cases of the 04...
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You and me both. Many prominent WIWPies disagree with me but I even prefer it to the fabulous 2002.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by BJ:
Sounds great Marc. I love L D'Or. I wish I'd bought 3 or 4 cases of the 04...
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You and me both. Many prominent WIWPies disagree with me but I even prefer it to the fabulous 2002.
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I am not unhappy to read this, Jay, as I first got onto the L-P bandwagon with the '04 vintage (not coincidentally, also the birth year of our son) so have lots of the '04 L d'Or (and Briords) to investigate with.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by BJ:
Sounds great Marc. I love L D'Or. I wish I'd bought 3 or 4 cases of the 04...
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You and me both. Many prominent WIWPies disagree with me but I even prefer it to the fabulous 2002.
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As a prominent WIWPy, I agree.

But I write that realizing I've never even had the 02. But that sort of thing has never held me back...
 
I like the younger wines with oysters on the half shell, personally. The aged wines are more compatible with something like the rabbit in beurre blanc or whatever it was yesterday at Marc's.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
I like the younger wines with oysters on the half shell, personally. The aged wines are more compatible with something like the rabbit in beurre blanc or whatever it was yesterday at Marc's.
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At Marc D's the '99 went well with spot prawns, cod, and mussels, cooked in a fish stock with fingerling potatoes and thyme and a few tomatoes. But we had a few Kumamoto oysters first and it was pretty good with the oysters too.

I wish I was at the other Marc's place for the rabbit. Next year in Nantes, sounds like a good Passover prayer.

Joel, I haven't tried any Muscadet older than the 1989, but to me it seems they change very slowly, kind of persist more. The sharp acid smooths into a rounder mouth and maybe richer, depending on the year. They don't seem to get the animal chicken broth funk of older Chablis.
 
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