2003 Domaine de la Pépière Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine sur lie Vieilles Vignes Clos des Briords

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  10/4/2012 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 94 Points

  I don't think I actually intended to cellar this, but a bottle got buried where I couldn't get to it for a long time... anyway, I wish I'd been smart enough to put away more, because it's just fantastic now and is really rewarding the time it spent sleeping. It is absolutely crystalline and cut like a jewel and features a cleansing freshness to it, but it's laced with darker tones and some of the candy-corn richness of fancy white Burgundy which gives it a level of stuffing and density that wasn't even hinted at on release. Yet overall it stays so fresh and bright that it's totally defying all stereotypes of the vintage.

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  1/29/2012 - EMichels wrote: 85 Points

  Seemed a bit off when initially opened but cleared up with a few minutes of air; Very nutty; Hazelnuts?; This has begun to thin out - drink up

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  10/7/2006 - gbauer wrote:

  Minerals, limestone, citrus, some yeast. Drinking very nicely now.

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  4/6/2005 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 91 Points

  Is this the QPR King of France? Here is a delicious bone-dry white to serve straight out of the ice bucket. The cold mutes the fruit and gives it a refreshing, Alpine quality that's inspiring me for the first time to use the word "schist" in a tasting note. At this point the wine is all about texture, offering the mouthfeel of a good Chablis but with a Savoyarde flavor profile. Given time to breathe and warm up, citrus fruit takes over, conveying both the acidity and the tang of fresh-squeezed lemons. Alcohol is a little stiff, given its proportions, but that's the only sign this juice saw the summer of 2003. I can't think of a better wine to buy by the case for summer days and nights this year.

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