Lots of Loires: I sometimes feel like an evangelist of the Cult of the Aged Muscadet, but bottles like this make the conversion process almost trivially simple. Maturity has changed the pale straw color of its youth into light gold, but it remains playfully young on the nose, showing classic saline minerality that screams of the sea. It shows more of its age once I take a sip. The core of wet gravel remains, but now a layer of preserved lemon, accented by hints of honey, joins the game and reflects its graceful evolution. It is showing well now, but I'm in no hurry to drink my remaining bottles.
Another example that Muscadet from great producers doesn't just last, it ages. Not bad for a bottle that still carried its $9.99 sticker, but a little bittersweet when I think about other whites in my cellar of equivalent age that cost many times more and have long since given up the ghost.
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Started a touch oxidative, and got fresher as it went. Truly one of the most remarkable wine-related things I've ever seen. I guess I'd say it "started at 85 points and got to 91 points with aeration" -- but in no way traditionally! Pretty obviously a riper vintage, but no need to pull the trigger unless you're a nervous Nellie, or need nervosity for noysters...
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Tonic water and minerals in the nose. Round and ripe and almost but not quite diffuse for a Briords, with some well integrated acids that help to keep this focused. Drinking well right now, not much fruit but lots of other interesting flavors. A nice wine to wash down some Dungeness crabs.
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Light gold color, briny aromas with some apricot ripeness. Slight metallic taste towards the finish. A ripe year Muscadet with some boytritus, interesting wine.
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8/15/2019 - MikeATL wrote: flawed
Much more advanced than the last bottle I had, this one was over the hill.
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4/18/2019 - MikeATL Likes this wine: 91 Points
Gold color and honey show the age, but it still has vibrant lemon and minerals and is drinking extremely well.
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6/10/2017 - MikeATL Likes this wine: 90 Points
BeaujoLoire Blowout (St. Cecilia, Atlanta, GA): Honey colored, but showing nice roundness and complexity from the age. Still holding together well.
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5/29/2016 - MikeATL wrote: flawed
Great color and vibrancy, but it's smothered by a strange chlorine aroma that didn't blow off. Disappointing as it otherwise seemed to have aged well.
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6/27/2015 - MikeATL wrote: flawed
Allemand, Jamet, Burgs, Barolo, Yquem, and more: Corked.
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8/13/2012 - MikeATL Likes this wine:
Lots of Loires: I sometimes feel like an evangelist of the Cult of the Aged Muscadet, but bottles like this make the conversion process almost trivially simple. Maturity has changed the pale straw color of its youth into light gold, but it remains playfully young on the nose, showing classic saline minerality that screams of the sea. It shows more of its age once I take a sip. The core of wet gravel remains, but now a layer of preserved lemon, accented by hints of honey, joins the game and reflects its graceful evolution. It is showing well now, but I'm in no hurry to drink my remaining bottles.
Another example that Muscadet from great producers doesn't just last, it ages. Not bad for a bottle that still carried its $9.99 sticker, but a little bittersweet when I think about other whites in my cellar of equivalent age that cost many times more and have long since given up the ghost.
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12/16/2011 - The Klipper wrote: 89 Points
Started a touch oxidative, and got fresher as it went. Truly one of the most remarkable wine-related things I've ever seen. I guess I'd say it "started at 85 points and got to 91 points with aeration" -- but in no way traditionally! Pretty obviously a riper vintage, but no need to pull the trigger unless you're a nervous Nellie, or need nervosity for noysters...
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10/7/2007 - marc d wrote:
Tonic water and minerals in the nose. Round and ripe and almost but not quite diffuse for a Briords, with some well integrated acids that help to keep this focused.
Drinking well right now, not much fruit but lots of other interesting flavors.
A nice wine to wash down some Dungeness crabs.
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11/27/2006 - marc d wrote:
Light gold color, briny aromas with some apricot ripeness. Slight metallic taste towards the finish. A ripe year Muscadet with some boytritus, interesting wine.
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