Tasted Monday, January 9, 2012 by Loren Sonkin with 851 views
Yesterday, a group of us got together to watch playoff football and drink some wine. After doing a 2006 Oregon Pinot tasting last month, we wondered if we should be decanting. That became the core of this tasting. We added a couple of others plus a Cal Pinot for "control". The wines were all served at the same temp. The decanted wines were decanted at 9:30am. They were double decanted back at 12:30 pm with the cork left out. The pop and pour pinots were opened at 1:15 and all the wines served immediately. All wines were served blind and each wine had its own glass. We unveiled at half time. Sometime in the second half other wines started to appear. The wines were consumed until about 4:30 although I kept going until the second game was over at around 8:15.
Conclusions. It just depends. Each wine is different. Each drinker is different. Heck, each bottle is different. I will say, that in the absence of any prior knowledge or facts, I would decant about an hour as a safe middle ground. Of course, we didn't try that nor did we try the slow-o method.
A starter. Served blind, a few guessed Muscadet correctly. No one was close on the vintage.
I guess we had short attention spans as we needed a few more wines to get through.
1995 Domaine Luneau-Papin Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine sur lie "L" d’Or 89 Points
France, Loire Valley, Pays Nantais, Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine sur lie
Golden in color. The nose is very pretty with aromas of limes and crushed shells. On the palate, it is a bit soft/flabby at first. it improves with air, but never has that bite I really like about Muscadets. Otoh, it is very complex and that is the only clue to how old it is. Nice finish.
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