2020 Domaine Luneau-Papin Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine sur lie Vieilles Vignes La Grange

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  3/30/2023 - TheRealOnthelees Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Agree with the other recent reviews. Medium bodied classic Muscadet, with excellent balance and a promising finish. A little dumb currently and not much on the nose. A pleasant enough glass with air, but I expect much more in 4-5 years.

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  3/14/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 Points

  A perfectly still pour. NOSE: not dumb, but rather encumbered with sleep. Old brass; wilted pears; praline. Grounded; pure; gaining pointed definition with time. MOUTH: dynamic and full of flavor. Broad spanning acidity, lifted over salted stone meringue. Retrally scented pomaceous and citrous. There's a little textured chew and aromatic reduction that I'd like to see resolve, as I expect it will by 2025. 90+
  Update: 24 hours is all that was needed to bring this wine into scintillating focus. It launches a pretty arc of rose and pennyroyal. White stone emerges with coherence on the finish. If you plan to drink it this year, I urge you to aerate it very well. 91.

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  2/16/2022 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 Points

  EYE: trace evidence of dissolved gas. NOSE: immediate, salted, bruised lemons. Glossy sourdough crumb. Delicate, pretty, springtime greenery. MOUTH: a weighty, glycerin texture is held aloft mercilessly by bitter* lemon oils, sea salt, sweet herbs, and abundant blanched stone flavors. As it drinks, the liquid stretches out, offering a relaxed, hydrating tableau of flavor. Green apple, peppermint, lemon glaze. Fresh cream coexists with sharp salt formations with no conflict. Rather, they are integral, something I find puzzling and delightful. I expect this wine to age well through 2030 (maybe through 2040.) *Appetizing bitterness is a characteristic of the 2020 vintage in the Pays Nantais.

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  7/9/2021 - Eudemis Likes this wine:

  12% alcohol. Diam3 closure, very short but very dense. Pale lemony colour.
  The nose is floral with good intensity, mostly white flowers and a piquant aspect upon swirling. Even more successful in the mouth. There is a pleasant tickly sensation at first; the initial overly lemony feel gives way to more complex flavours of pear and other white fruit (I am finding it hard to describe these more accurately). The acidity is very good but not excessive.
  In terms of refinement, enjoyment and intensity, I would put this at the level of a respectable village Chablis.
  It would be a pity to confine this wine to accompanying mussels; it went quite well with the freshest scallops and brill.
  A repeat purchase.

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  6/22/2021 - peternelson Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Classic, minerally, salty, good intensity, medium body. Just right. Parcel next to domaine; hand harvested, they call Melon de Bourgogne "Melon B", on schiste and micashiste soils, on lees until Spring. At winery

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