2010 Domaine Luneau-Papin Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine Sur Lie Terre de Pierre Butte de la Roche

Community Tasting Notes (46) Avg Score: 89.9 points

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  4/23/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 94 Points

  2010 (detroit): This leads with a particularly piercing, icy chime of stone—minty and translucent. That's the sort of element I might expect to catabolize in two years, and not appear without precedent. The rest of the drinking experience is properly curved, transparently flavored, and cured. Beds of saltmarsh brulée, thriving coastal grasses, and oyster-shell sugars flap forwardly aloft, weightless. The dramatic contest here consists of illuminated breeziness meeting fallen nut fats. Botanical rumors mock the upper registers, consisting of apricot, pome, cardamom, piñon, green lemon blossom, tea buds, and flooded gravel. Aspirated dryness. Elegant contours. Mannered emotional austerity. More Champagne should taste like this.
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  55° F service is better than 65°.

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  4/3/2022 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This latest shipping/back label omits the name of the vineyard. EYE: illuminated bronze. NOSE: burgundian of exceeding delicacy. Apple/pear, salted green fig. Tumbled stone. Cream pith (see: lees). Ambient hazelnut, cardamom, cucumber, mace, and seasoned wood. MOUTH: a curvaceous, transparent medium for savory, hushed articulations. Bitter salt mine. Almond branch. Cured, brittle, green musk. Launching over this gravity is a careless perfume of yielding apple blossom. Steely acidity. A breezy pace. The flavors wash with precision, leaving a translucent stain of mineral. This is fruit in a lithic matrix, rather than juice infused with rocks. Fit to drink through 2030.

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  3/14/2022 - WST Likes this wine:

  This has cut, with lemon/citrus, wet limestone minerality, plus pear and other white orchard fruit. Slightly more dense and viscous than some Muscadet, but still fresh as a daisy at a dozen years. Impressive, especially for a $23 wine.

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  3/15/2021 - olalar wrote: 91 Points

  Beautiful complexity. Still young with melons and pears.

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  8/11/2020 - MarkLA wrote: 90 Points

  Tasted over 6 hours. Very different compared to 4 years ago. Today's bottle is quiet. Towards the 6th hour, it displays some of that volume I encountered previously, but the power that bottle possessed is likely dormant in this one (90+?).

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