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• Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine:

  September 15, 2022 - Tasted double blind from a small capped bottle. We all thought this was the youngest of the 3 (05,07,10). Oops. This one smelled like Riesling to me - with its fresh orchard fruits and stony minerality. graham cracker, some sweetness stony minerals. Palate is flinty, with green apple, some sharp citrus. (Would guess riesling) some tropical.

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• fitzi wrote:

  December 21, 2021 - Magnum decanted into four half-bottles and imbibed one by one over a week or so. This is a venerable wine, still ample piss and vinegar, that is, it's not near tired or fading. Classic muscadet citrusy flavors and acidity when opened and served cold, with nice purity and precision. With lengthy exposure to air, and served close to cool room temperature - like you might serve a Bordeaux -its briny flavor qualities come upstage, and viscosity develops, so that the texture somewhat balances out the keen acidity. I prefer the briny, viscous presentation of this wine, which is peaking now, as I drink the second half of the third 375 bottle. Three mags left, I'll aim to work through them over the coming two-three years.
  
  Moe-Curly rating for this wine out of the bottle; Larry-Curly for the wine after air and served at cool room temperature. As much as I like these wines, as versatile as they are - and with the exception of some Briordes - they lack the scale and weight to get into double Curly or Larry territory.

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• glou.sf Likes this wine: 92 points

  March 1, 2021 - Tasted blind. Very pretty nose of apples, grapefruit, and minerals. Good acidity and surprisingly rich and creamy (but not overly so) with green apple and citrus flavors on the palate. Good finish. Lovely aged Muscadet!

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• fitzi wrote:

  June 27, 2020 - From magnum. I was fretful about excessive aging, because of the last note by 14Frimaire. I usually decant my magnums into half bottles, drinking the whole amount over the course of a week or so.
  
  I was frustrated, initially, because this wine is always so tight and ungiving on opening, and I began to think was 14Frimaire right, and that this wine would oxidize before it yielded any real flavor. Progressively, however, the wine showed better with each half bottle and each glass. The last two glasses were the best, from a demi poured six days after opening the magnum, and a day after re-opening the half bottle. Only at this stage did the wine really show the dirty, saline brininess that makes mature Muscadet so good - combined, in this wine, with enough body and texture to make it both sumptuous and classy.
  
  Good to be reminded what you are paying for in Clisson, with enough patience. I feel that drinking these wines young is such a forgone opportunity. I have four more magnums and plan to relish every drop.

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• coremill wrote: 89 points

  September 1, 2019 - Has aged nicely, but was overshadowed by a great magnum of 05 Briords on this day. A little richer, but less zingy and minerally than Briords, the extra lees influence is noticeable in the slightly milky character.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type White
• Producer Domaine de la Pépière
• Varietal Melon de Bourgogne
• Designation Granite de Clisson
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Pays Nantais
• Appellation Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine
• UPC Code 815541001870

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• In Cellars 213 (22%)
• Consumed 752 (78%)

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