Eric Chevalier's Domaine L' Aujardiere "La Noe"

[Bill Lundstrom]

Does anyone have much experience with this muscadet? i had my first bottle the other night and liked it quite a bit.

One bottle isn't enough experience to try and compare it with marc olivier, luneau papin et al. so, i am wondering if this producer is held in the same esteem as the other great muscadet producers.

The search function turns up notes on the fie gris and his chardonnay but i couldn't find anything on the muscadets.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Not mentioned in Le Rouge & Le Blanc's Vallée de la Loire.

 

[Bill Lundstrom]

I meant to include that it is a Kermit Lynch import.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Not mentioned in Le Rouge & Le Blanc's Vallée de la Loire.

You have that? *Swoon*.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

It was our indispensable guide to the region last November.

 

[Marc D]

Bill,
I tried one bottle and had a similar reaction to you, it was very appealing and easy to drink.

It was one of the standouts from a mixed case of white wines I tried recently from
Kermit Lynch. If I understand this correctly, I think that Muscadet is something new from Eric Chevalier, so there is not much of a prior track record to go on here. I may be wrong about this.

 

[SFJoe]

I've never had it.

 

[Steve Edmunds]

I've had several bottles of Chevalier's Muscadet, and loved every drop.

 

[Bill Lundstrom]

i definetly will be picking up a few more bottles. it's attractively priced at about $13.50.

 

[Claude Kolm]

Chevalier makes many different wines, not just Muscadet, and I've found most of them worthy of interest.

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Chevalier makes many different wines, not just Muscadet, and I've found most of them worthy of interest.

Do they make a Montrachet?

Mark Lipton

 

[Claude Kolm]

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Chevalier makes many different wines, not just Muscadet, and I've found most of them worthy of interest.

Do they make a Montrachet?

Mark Lipton

Many years ago (ca. 1988, IRRC), Domaine de Chevalier in Pessac-Léognan originally designated its second wine as Le B“tard de Chevalier, but the folks at INAO forced them to change it. There was an initial release of wine with that label, though. Should be collectors items.

 

[BJ]

His Chardonnay is good.

 

[nigel groundwater]

originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
Eric Chevalier's Domaine L' Aujardiere "La Noe"Does anyone have much experience with this muscadet? i had my first bottle the other night and liked it quite a bit.

One bottle isn't enough experience to try and compare it with marc olivier, luneau papin et al. so, i am wondering if this producer is held in the same esteem as the other great muscadet producers.

The search function turns up notes on the fie gris and his chardonnay but i couldn't find anything on the muscadets.

Bill, his website www.chevalierledomaine.com gives his wines including "La Noe" and another Muscadet with a write-up on both in [easily translated] French.

The other Muscadet received a gold medal for the 2007 at the Concours Général de Paris and the 2008 was selected for the Guides Hachette, Gilbert & Gaillard and Bettane & Desseauve.

 

[slaton]

That '07 was incredibly lean and high acid. I dug it but definitely not a wine for those who need a little flesh on their Muscadet.

 

[Claude Kolm]

originally posted by slaton:
t definitely not a wine for those who need a little flesh on their Muscadet.

For the fleshists, there's Domaine de la Fessardière with wines raised in wooden foudres. (Certainly, nothing wrong with fesses that have the right amount of flesh.)

 

[Bill Lundstrom]

nigel- thanks for the website.

claude- have you tried the reds?