'02 Luneau Papin Clos des Noelles

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Marc D

Marc Davis
We drank this with some smallish Penn Cove Mussels and linguine cooked in the mussel liquor, which wasn't too shabby a match. Chalk, lemon lime, briny, minerally, tonic water nose; pretty much classic Muscadet aromas. It has a certain richness in the mouth, maybe from the lees contact, without ever losing its shape. It is pretty generous and round for Melon, but it never crosses into the obvious floozy category, at least for me. The flavors persist and linger for a long time. Really top shelf Muscadet, a wow wine.

Edit: Apologies to Bruce L, and to all the Muscadet granite heads out there (you know who you are). Last night, microschist Muscadet ruled.
 
originally posted by Marc D:
a wow wine.
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I agree wholly. I get a sense of sunlit dust in the aroma that is some kind of powerful smell memory from my ancestors. It's gripping.
 
i'll have to try this wine, thanks for the notes. big L-P fan......my notes on an L d'Or I had recently mention an "ancient" quality to the nose...though I had no idea exactly what I meant by that. intriguing to see a similar remark by Todd.

on an aside, i much prefer L-P to domaine l'Ecu....maybe i am just not a granitehead, that's all
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
Briords would be the test case for granite, and there are great non-granite wines from Bossard.
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Not sure if granite is found to be as breakable as it is in Briords often enough, for it to be a benchmark vineyard.
 
originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by SFJoe:
Briords would be the test case for granite, and there are great non-granite wines from Bossard.
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Not sure if granite is found to be as breakable as it is in Briords often enough, for it to be a benchmark vineyard.
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Do you speak as a root?
 
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always, that's where the dot comes from ( seriously )
 
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