The Muscadet

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Jeff Grossman

Jeff Grossman
I'll start: Bregeon 2014, yes, the one IMPORTED BY KERMIT LYNCH, is a nice enough muscadet: not too tart, not too minerally, but still pure and clean and held its own against pan-roasted salmon. QPR wine (as you'd expect from a basic bottling).
 
2001 Clos des Briords - Quite rich, actually, tastes/smells of rising dough, yellow fruit and a wash of stones. Good for the soul. Great with the cod. 93 pts. Drink and hold.
 
2005 Luneau-Papin L D'Or was hitting on all cylinders recently. My wife, ever fearful of oxidation in older whites, was thrilled with the freshness and vitality. It had a fine melange of salinity and minerality. Definitely moreish and a great pairing with Patagonian Toothfish.

Mark Lipton
 
I was quite happy with this on Monday in LA:

2014 Melon de Bourgogne, Métaireau, Grand Mouton, Muscadet Sèvre et Maine, Loire Valley, France

Never heard of the folk(s). Martine's I think.

Maximum zing.
 
The '16 Pepiere was gorgeous at the Bowler tasting last week. I preferred it to the '15 and it was much more open at this point than the '16 Clos Briords. Both '16s were vat samples.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
The '16 Pepiere was gorgeous at the Bowler tasting last week. I preferred it to the '15 and it was much more open at this point than the '16 Clos Briords. Both '16s were vat samples.
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I loved the '16 Pepiere at the Dressner storm tasting. Not to level of the '12 or '14, but close.
 
originally posted by MLipton:
2005 Luneau-Papin L D'Or was hitting on all cylinders recently. My wife, ever fearful of oxidation in older whites, was thrilled with the freshness and vitality. It had a fine melange of salinity and minerality. Definitely moreish and a great pairing with Patagonian Toothfish.

Mark Lipton
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I drank a 1999 in February that was the most memorable bottle of wine I've had this year. Really incredible. Very much Muscadet, but with incredible depth that I've not found in the younger wines. I have another bottle that, if it performs as well, will some day make Cory a believer in aging these wines.
 
Not Muscadet but Melon de Bourgogne from Vezelay. 2015 Domaine de la Cadette “Melon” - green strawberries and stone, zippy with a bit more fat than what you might expect from Muscadet proper.
 
The 07 Clisson was fantastic last night. Zippy, spirited and then an ever-so-slight mellowness at the end. (struggling against saying there was honey on the finish, which there wasn't)
 
I opened this particular bottle (!) on March 24th 2017 after cellaring since original release/purchase and storing in cellar until now. Delightful and fresh in mouth and nose; funny combination of rhubarb pie and lemon tart in the nose with a heavy undernote of funk that gives the whole a vegetal edge like the sweet end processes of heavy-footed ruminants. Like stripping the fresh edges of a rhubarb plant with your hands when you pull the leaves from the rest of the plant embedded in the soil and its leaves and ribs (toxic) plaintively call upon all of your senses. A lilt of slanted acidity gives this vintage a white mineral structure to hold the whole creature upright; the whole sweet Frankenstein a reason to live..
 
Ameztoi 2015 Getariako Txakolina - hondarrabi zuri, you betcha; stony, acidic, a bright silver flash and it's gone; works well against an earthy and meaty paella
 
originally posted by Nathan Odem:
I was quite happy with this on Monday in LA:

2014 Melon de Bourgogne, Métaireau, Grand Mouton, Muscadet Sèvre et Maine, Loire Valley, France

Never heard of the folk(s). Martine's I think.

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Nice article about her in yesterday's Post.
 
Comte Leloup's Chateau de Chasseloir 'Cuvée des Ceps Centenaires' 2005

prolly my 1st/2nd favorite muscadet property, this is buy-on-sight wine chez nous
doe eyed & stoned, posh spicy even, nearing pinnacle depending upon one's taste

M. Delhommeau's Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Sur Lie, 'Cuvée Harmonie' 2014
open now or ten years after, sapid & energetic, whole lotta shakin', bring it on home
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
'99 Luneau-Papin "Allies" is also stunningly good.
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This is a really good wine regularly, imho, and well-priced.

2009 Briords very good last week, though it took a day after uncorking to open up.

More and more, good Muscadet is my go-to white. It's very (apologies to Steve) versatile, and manages to be excellent without getting all up in your face.
 
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