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• Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

  April 19, 2024 - Today, 2019 Briords is showing it's Chenin side. I mean, after the aerosol oyster, and mulled green apple, it bares a glimpse of quince.
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  24 hours later, greatly improved. This is the version that can join an outdoor session on the coast. It's more casually drinkable this way; with terrific mineral grip. There once was a time when I might have misjudged its rather closed presentation yesterday as "oxidized" or infirm. Nope. It wants air, or another 5-10 years in the bottle.

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• wayfarer Likes this wine: 91 points

  March 9, 2024 - Really nice again. Served with oysters, a fine combo. Complemented the salty ocean richness very well.

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• Egatniv wrote: 92 points

  January 13, 2024 - Perfect with creamy seafood stew, and to finish the bottle on its own. Apple, pear, hint of lime. Good salinity to go with seafood

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• D_RICH wrote: 91 points

  January 12, 2024 - Excellent. Piercing, concentrated, acid, wow. Nice match for cod. (91+).

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• Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 points

  November 5, 2023 - This pour is 63° F, according to the probe in the drinking cup.* Serving temperature makes a nontrivial difference with Briords. Below 55°F/13°C it can be blowzy and dull almost to the point of vacancy. It's been a head-scratcher for years, but there it is.
  
  EYE: certainly more pale than a recently opened 2018; silver and greenish; a translucent shimmer of gas races from solution on the pour. NOSE: delicate chablis-salt, green pome, lemon blossom, lime marmalade, agitated gravel. MOUTH: chop-thick, savory texture brings a ready scatter of crisp herbs and whole citrus, particularly lemon. There's an interesting mulch of black cherries and bay leaf before the appetizing bitter stone takes over on the finish. Classic proportions; clean; adolescent without awkwardness; racy and drinkable. I'll have to open one of these remaining bottles for my island friends. Celestial 92+
  
  *Depleting shreds of physics literacy insist that drinking temperature is a weighted average of the temperatures of the bottle, the drinking cup, and the surrounding air.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2019
• Type White
• Producer Domaine de la Pépière
• Varietal Melon de Bourgogne
• Designation Vieilles Vignes
• Vineyard Briords
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Pays Nantais
• Appellation Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine sur lie
• UPC Codes 072252110684, 3464880515196, 610373581176, 7070334994576

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• Pending Delivery 21 (2%)
• In Cellars 520 (44%)
• Consumed 651 (55%)

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