Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
So, 2015 Pépière passed my palate on a quiet Sunday. Holy crow, that is electric stuff. And I'd thought the 2014 was a home run crossed with a touchdown.
2015 Pépière
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Kay Bixler
Kay Bixler
Perhaps the word you're looking for is "GOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAL!!!"
Marc Hanes
Marc Hanes
This is the early release, non "sur lie" bottling, correct? If so I have one at home. Last year they too released a non sur lie version so as to keep product in the marketplace and then at some later juncture released the usual sur lie version. Thanks.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
You are indeed right:
Marc Hanes
Marc Hanes
Blind pig finds a truffle now and then.
May in part explain the texture you experienced.
Curious to see how the two versions would age, maybe an experiment is on the cusp of coming into being.
May in part explain the texture you experienced.
Curious to see how the two versions would age, maybe an experiment is on the cusp of coming into being.
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
Pigs don't find truffles by sighting them so a blind pig wouldn't be at much of a disadvantage. That may hold true for the other side of the analogy.
Tristan Welles
Tristan Welles
I've talked to one truffle hunter who told me his favorite pig was blind. He thought the blindness enhanced the pig's olfactory sense.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
That sounds like a cool idea.
So, I got to talk to Rémi Branger yesterday at the LDM tasting. He said that 2015 was a curious vintage because it was hot and dry, so they were looking at a small, ripe vintage, then the three weeks before harvest it rained and rained, so that the berries bloated and created a totally different vintage profile. He was relieved that they had not burst.
Charles Anderson
Charles Anderson
By around six, his answer had distilled to "normal vintage." Guess he meant on average.
Was he pouring the 15 (per my liberally perforated memory, but not the syllabus which says 14 Gras Moutons, 13 Monnieres - St. Fiacre, 13 Clisson)? In my narrative I was surprised by how much I liked it.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Interesting.... He was pouring a not-yet-bottled tank sample of the 2015 Muscadet Sur Lie.
What did you make of the Gras Moutons? I never "get" that wine.
What did you make of the Gras Moutons? I never "get" that wine.
Charles Anderson
Charles Anderson
'Twas my first go at the Gras Moutons, but I didn't get it either. To me it was unappealingly chubby (1); I wanted to put it through a vinous version of a pencil sharpener. Maybe with the right food and/or age, and not bracketed by peppier Pépières, I'd dig it. Maybe blind with no Muscadet expectations.
(1) not always a showstopper for me: really dug, for instance, the Degli Ulivi (Gavi) Filagnotti which was not exactly pointy
(1) not always a showstopper for me: really dug, for instance, the Degli Ulivi (Gavi) Filagnotti which was not exactly pointy
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Ah, Marc D, I owe you a writeup or so.... Ce sera pour demain.
Ben Hunting
Ben Hunting
Terry Angleton
Terry Angleton
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Yes, that's what he said.
Ben Hunting
Ben Hunting
According to the visit I linked to above, the grapes from the oldest vines in Gras Moutons go into the Monnières Saint-Fiacre cuvée. It seems like Pépière's new vineyard acquisitions tend to be of older vines.
A new Pépière Gorges cuvée is also mentioned, starting with the 2014 vintage, after Pépière and Brégeon exchanged parcels!
A new Pépière Gorges cuvée is also mentioned, starting with the 2014 vintage, after Pépière and Brégeon exchanged parcels!
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Note to pedants: They are exchanging juice, not parcels.
Ben Hunting
Ben Hunting
I did notice but wasn't sure how best to phrase that. Thanks for pointing it out. I wonder if Pépière will eventually be doing the vineyard work in the Gorges parcel.