Miss World 2009

[Saina Nieminen]

Domaine de la Sénéchalière (Marc Pesnot) Miss Terre 2009 - Vin de Table from Bretagne sud (pays Nantais), Melon de Bourgogne; 12% abv; back label

This beauty goes through a slow, four month fermentation with no added yeasts. But it does go through malo (which I guess isn't all that common for Muscadet?). This is a lovely wine, but it is very different from all other Muscadets I have tried. One bottle smelled very much like bread, so I guessed (though Google didn't help me here - anyone know?) that this would see a long time on lees. However, the second bottle was pure citrus from the beginning and had no obvious leesy aromatics.

Both bottles were rich and fruity for what is Muscadet in all but its name. But there is a peacock's tail of acidity and minerals that firmly places this in Muscadet. It is both typical enough to be recognizable and atypical in being so fruity. Yet Miss World 2009's voluptuousness seems so natural that I can't believe she has silicon implants.

Tasted twice with delightfully inconsistent results. But this is prime stuff so I'm 2^43112609-1 points on this.

 

[Levi Dalton]

Wow. Neat.

 

[lars makie]

I wonder how different this is from his La Bohème bottling I had the other week? That was also Melon de Bourgogne (I was told it was declassified Muscadet and not labeled as such, because the grapes were grown just outside of that area). The information on the back label of yours Otto looks a lot like the one I'm talking about (though I don't have it anymore so can't say definitively). As far as taste goes, my bottle was fine (not bread-y), but it did have more heft than your average Muscadet does.

 

[Kay Bixler]

Thanks for the heads up, Otto, will have to find this wine.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Did it taste mysterious?

 

[Saina Nieminen]

Mysterious only in that I can't seem to find any information on the bottlings they do and how they differ from each other and why some of them don't have Muscadet as the appellation.

 

[lars makie]

originally posted by Otto Nieminen:
Mysterious only in that I can't seem to find any information on the bottlings they do and how they differ from each other and why some of them don't have Muscadet as the appellation.

Here's the bit of info on Marc Pesnot from the Jenny & Francois site (his US importers). No mention of the Miss Terre wine (how mysterious). But it sure seems that it could be the La Bohème just renamed.