One of the few true bargains in the world of older wines. A wine with 20+ years that has this much freshness, nuanced fruit and life to it, and all for the price of something you might randomly pull out of the cellar without thinking twice? Yes please!
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Bottle #4 of 7. Stupendous. Again. This is coming near the end of its life, as the last bit of bottle showed some dulling decline the second night. Time to drink these up. A marvelous bottle. The best ever Muscadet for me and the wife. Beautiful green sheen to the bright yellow color. Classic lemon and sea breeze on a foundation of blazing acidity. Very long finish, medium mid-palate.
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MuscaDay 2015: Briny, focused, bright, tons of sour lemon, sea breeze, crusty jetty rocks. Creamy notes, slight honey, still plenty of life ahead. Tied with the 2002 for my favorite.
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Brilliant. Most likely the best Muscadet ever for us. Blazing, razor sharp acidity frames green (not unripe, but deep and vegetal, like a Gruner), lemony, and distinctly saline, almost musky, shellfish-laden fruit, with a powerful finish. I'm smelling this right now, at the 1.5 hour mark and it smells like a barrel of shelled oysters. No sh*t. (Salmon tonight, no oysters). Musky, dank, bright, oceanic, laden with nuance, and stinkingly delicious. My first ever oyster juice wine, and I'm not kidding, try it. And, to top it all off, this seems like it will last another decade, as there's a jolly rancher note here that denotes adolescence. Awesome! Bottle #3 of 6. 94pts pure quality, 96pts personal preference.
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Really enjoyable bottle of L d'Or, better than my recent '89. The fruit here is still very bright and fresh while having picked up a little more roundness and generosity than you'd get in a young Muscadet. I have a vague sense people have called this a flabby vintage but if so it's good flab, there is the perfect amount of flesh on these bones and this wine is in a great place right now.
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Again the Gruner profile starts things off when first opened. This gives way to a glycerin laden, sour lemon infused, crisp and powerfully long seashore finish. This is right up there with the best Muscadet ever, and we made a huge mistake having this with anything other than oysters. Luckily I have another 4 bottles to remedy that! Very light yellow color and the evolution of this bottle in glass denote a long future still, unbelievably. A week open in bottle: Still going strong and I was tempted to upgrade its points. If this had a longer finish I would have. This really is a gem.
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Last bottle of a small batch that has provided great drinking over the past 5 years. Still light yellow. Fresh orange and seashore on the nose. Light weight. Penetrating bitter citrus, swirling stone and soil finish. This has hardly budged over the last 2 years-amazing longevity and the antidote to (much more expensive) French whites that have been ravaged by premature oxidation.
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MuscaDay 2013 (Tom's House - Washington, DC): Aromas of lemon peel, orange peel, sea salt and beeswax. Pure and tangy on the palate, with a solid minerals and hardcore acidity. Flavors of green apple, sea salt, oyster brine, sea shells. Rich wax and nut flavors make this a complex wine. Some thought this wine was a bit muted, but I think it's just gotten a bit more restrained with age. Still wonderful.
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Absolutely brilliant. Perfectly mature, still crisp and complex, this is at peak. Starts off with a Gruner-like nose and flavor profile. I know, I know, we thought the same thing. Then, in the next 30 minutes a beautiful sea shore, lemony, mouth grabbing demand for respect emerges. Not quite blistering, in fact, integrated acidity and all the usual Muscadet suspects emerge. This is brilliant and I'm so glad we have 5 more bottles. Score! 93pts pure quality, 95pts for personal preference and especially style.
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Still plenty of life, but on the soft side for LP. Full, good length, lemon and rocks, nice match with the oysters, but needs more zip to be outstanding. B
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Reticent aroma of lees. Palate is lemon and mineral, with a nutty finish. Good length, good acid tang. Enjoyed this wine very much with sockeye salmon poached in coconut milk with fennel, long beans, and thai chili.
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A bit creamy, subtle, a bit toasty, and still some tense. Although, the striking acidity if a young Muscadet is not there anymore, this is an interesting example of aged one.
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With its lemon fruit, slight leesy notes, and chalky texture, this actually reminds me a bit of a blanc de blanc champagne without the bubbles. Good depth for a muscadet, with a noticeable nutty quality to the finish. On day 2 the fruit is a bit rounder, showing melon and key lime pie. The chalkiness is toned down, and there's a weird chartreuse-like flavor, with a bit of bitterness on the finish.
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Fab. If you have never tried one of these "oddities" you must. Grab a bottle of 10 year old Cru Beaujolais and a bottle of 15year old Muscadet from Luneau-Papin and have a feast. Add food if you must but don't let it get in the way of enjoying the wine!
Nose of hay, fruit, grass, stones. "smells like fresh sun dried laundry" Smooth, light, delightful, dancing on your tongue, with nice mouth feel with complex flavors on the finish that carry on and on. If you still think of Muscadet as some cheap $9 plonk that you drag out once a year for oysters, wake up. This is a whole different league. A must try on anyone's "wine bucket list"!
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DC Crew's Gem Tasting - 3rd Annual (Palena - Washington, DC): While waiting at Weygandt Wines for everyone to arrive for the tasting, we popped this aged muscadet. I was really impressed with this wine. Aromas of lemon peel, sea salt and mixed nuts. The combination of nervy acidity and mature, nutty fruit is spectacular. Still vibrant and solid, and I'd love the opportunity to drink this over the course of a few hours to see how it develops.
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Had this alongside the 1999. Another enjoyable Muscadet, with a briny-ness and focus that is wonderful. A little lighter than the featherweight 1999, so some might be turned off by its lack of density.
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Still pale. Amazingly youthful chalk, soil, and orange zest with the extra layer of flesh and the barest hint of caramel that age brings. Phenomenal complexity and value.
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Perfume like aromas of honeysuckle and thyme. Rich palate of lemons and almonds, with sherry like notes. Beautiful mineral laced finish. Everything is in perfect balance, this is just a great wine.
This is the first time I have had a Muscadet with significant age, and it was a revelation. I don't know what I would have thought this was if I tasted it blind, I would definitely have thought it was young, and I would never have guessed it was Muscadet.
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Light gold. Overripe starfruit! sweet nose! Light+ body. Delightful, crisp, slight frizzante. No idea what this is. ------------ Post Reveal: 1997 muscadet DougS: muscadet doesn't really age... hmmmmm 95% of muscadet is bad.... can't age... but when it's good... amazing. Chambers street wine nyc- louis dressner, importer.
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Soft, full and mature. Expansive fruit with lots of flowery perfume, some nuttiness and some lemony acid to balance. A very pretty wine with a long bright finish. Mineral with a touch of steel and a hint of spritz. Very nice. Drinking very well with no signs of tiring. My favorite Muscadet to date. B
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Medium yellow core to rim with lemon, lime minerals yeast and slight floral. Light bodied with medium plus length. Had this Xmas Eve with oysters, crab and lobster. Delicious wine. Loved it.
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The taster next to me and me exclaimed at the same time after the first sip: "This wine begs for oysters!" and it surely does. I could almost taste 'em on the tip of my tongue, minerals are second to none in this wine.
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consistent tasting notes from previous tastings. An excellent wine that does not disappoint, but will also live for many years to come and improve with bottle aging. I love this wine. I don't say that often.
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A bargain priced wine. Much better than the 23 bucks I paid. This wine is very pleasing and went well with the seafood appetizers we had and have a very nice finish. Air time helped it develop somewhat in the glass.
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Deep straw. Gorgeous minerality glides from nose to palate effortlessly. Just beautiful, beautiful rocks all around; this is an elite Muscadet in an ethereal place right now.
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Muscadet Dinner (Adam's House): Next to the above wines the nose here is much more mature, with wild mushrooms in the foreground and the immutable brine and citrus aromas underneath. A truly compelling nose that was at its most expressive a solid hour after opening. The palate was as youthful as the 2005 I had a few months ago. This wine seems as if it could do another 15 years in the cellar without blinking
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Great wine. Seems so fresh and zingy, it's near impossible that it's eleven years old. Tastes like a young Muscadet...fresh, racy, minerals and crushed sea shells and some nice green apple peel fruit. This has got to be tasted to be believed. In my opinion worlds better than the 1995 Clos des Allees.
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Only differences from previous bottles were some mustiness on the nose which blew off, and a little more body. Excellent and in so many ways, a dead ringer for Chablis from a classic (i.e., not too ripe) vintage. Hard to beat an 11 year old white wine with such a great combination of youthful vigor and complexity.
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Light yellow, not quite as pale as last bottle. Great iodine and seashell nose with tremendous acid cut and soil tones on the palate. Will go on-amazing.
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Another back vintage L d'Or as fresh as a current release, though this actually seems rounder and less acidic than most. The usual expected brilliance with oysters on the half-shell. Definitely one of the most slam-dunk milk-and-cookies, peanut-butter-and-jelly matches in all of wine. Even the oysters themselves don't taste as much like the sea as the backdraft of this wine immediately afterwards. For that one fleeting moment you feel like packing your bags, buying a boat, growing a beard, and living a life at sea.
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A Loire Extravaganza ("Villa M", San Francisco): Amazingly pale and limpid--could have been the 2005 visually. Wonderful sea breeze quality to the nose. Mouthwatering freshness and acidity which begged for oysters! Impressive focus and youthful vivacity for a 10 year old wine.
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Not much on the nose but it might have been a little cold. In the mouth, classic Muscadet -- stone, yeast, a little citrus. I would not have guessed this was ten years old.
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Just beautiful -- this is really getting there. The aromatics are lovely, citrus fruits, sea air, a little chalk and sea shell, it's really opened up. The palate follows, but it is still a bit tight. I'd say this is in early prime-time.
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5/21/2023 - TWG wrote:
25 years on maybe waiting that long was a bad idea. 10 years ago these were a lot better.
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9/7/2018 - CMStrong Likes this wine: 93 Points
One of the few true bargains in the world of older wines. A wine with 20+ years that has this much freshness, nuanced fruit and life to it, and all for the price of something you might randomly pull out of the cellar without thinking twice? Yes please!
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6/12/2017 - sawira wrote: 94 Points
Bottle #4 of 7. Stupendous. Again. This is coming near the end of its life, as the last bit of bottle showed some dulling decline the second night. Time to drink these up. A marvelous bottle. The best ever Muscadet for me and the wife. Beautiful green sheen to the bright yellow color. Classic lemon and sea breeze on a foundation of blazing acidity. Very long finish, medium mid-palate.
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5/31/2015 - isaacjamesbaker wrote:
MuscaDay 2015: Briny, focused, bright, tons of sour lemon, sea breeze, crusty jetty rocks. Creamy notes, slight honey, still plenty of life ahead. Tied with the 2002 for my favorite.
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8/19/2014 - sawira wrote: 94 Points
Brilliant. Most likely the best Muscadet ever for us. Blazing, razor sharp acidity frames green (not unripe, but deep and vegetal, like a Gruner), lemony, and distinctly saline, almost musky, shellfish-laden fruit, with a powerful finish. I'm smelling this right now, at the 1.5 hour mark and it smells like a barrel of shelled oysters. No sh*t. (Salmon tonight, no oysters). Musky, dank, bright, oceanic, laden with nuance, and stinkingly delicious. My first ever oyster juice wine, and I'm not kidding, try it. And, to top it all off, this seems like it will last another decade, as there's a jolly rancher note here that denotes adolescence. Awesome! Bottle #3 of 6. 94pts pure quality, 96pts personal preference.
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7/18/2014 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 93 Points
Really enjoyable bottle of L d'Or, better than my recent '89. The fruit here is still very bright and fresh while having picked up a little more roundness and generosity than you'd get in a young Muscadet. I have a vague sense people have called this a flabby vintage but if so it's good flab, there is the perfect amount of flesh on these bones and this wine is in a great place right now.
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8/6/2013 - sawira wrote: 93 Points
Again the Gruner profile starts things off when first opened. This gives way to a glycerin laden, sour lemon infused, crisp and powerfully long seashore finish. This is right up there with the best Muscadet ever, and we made a huge mistake having this with anything other than oysters. Luckily I have another 4 bottles to remedy that! Very light yellow color and the evolution of this bottle in glass denote a long future still, unbelievably.
A week open in bottle: Still going strong and I was tempted to upgrade its points. If this had a longer finish I would have. This really is a gem.
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7/23/2013 - drwine2001 wrote:
Last bottle of a small batch that has provided great drinking over the past 5 years. Still light yellow. Fresh orange and seashore on the nose. Light weight. Penetrating bitter citrus, swirling stone and soil finish. This has hardly budged over the last 2 years-amazing longevity and the antidote to (much more expensive) French whites that have been ravaged by premature oxidation.
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3/11/2013 - Serge Birbrair Likes this wine:
Good to the last drop of the last bottle.
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2/24/2013 - manonthemoon wrote: 85 Points
Nose was light with sea water, little floral.
Palate was light with mostly saline, salt, little white grapefruit.
A little past its prime.
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2/24/2013 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 90 Points
MuscaDay 2013 (Tom's House - Washington, DC): Aromas of lemon peel, orange peel, sea salt and beeswax. Pure and tangy on the palate, with a solid minerals and hardcore acidity. Flavors of green apple, sea salt, oyster brine, sea shells. Rich wax and nut flavors make this a complex wine. Some thought this wine was a bit muted, but I think it's just gotten a bit more restrained with age. Still wonderful.
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1/25/2013 - sawira wrote: 93 Points
Absolutely brilliant. Perfectly mature, still crisp and complex, this is at peak. Starts off with a Gruner-like nose and flavor profile. I know, I know, we thought the same thing. Then, in the next 30 minutes a beautiful sea shore, lemony, mouth grabbing demand for respect emerges. Not quite blistering, in fact, integrated acidity and all the usual Muscadet suspects emerge. This is brilliant and I'm so glad we have 5 more bottles. Score! 93pts pure quality, 95pts for personal preference and especially style.
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1/13/2013 - Serge Birbrair Likes this wine:
drink up
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7/28/2012 - DaleW wrote:
Still plenty of life, but on the soft side for LP. Full, good length, lemon and rocks, nice match with the oysters, but needs more zip to be outstanding. B
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7/6/2012 - diggydan wrote: 90 Points
Reticent aroma of lees. Palate is lemon and mineral, with a nutty finish. Good length, good acid tang. Enjoyed this wine very much with sockeye salmon poached in coconut milk with fennel, long beans, and thai chili.
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5/16/2012 - Pierre-Yves wrote: 88 Points
A bit creamy, subtle, a bit toasty, and still some tense. Although, the striking acidity if a young Muscadet is not there anymore, this is an interesting example of aged one.
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4/26/2012 - coremill wrote: 88 Points
With its lemon fruit, slight leesy notes, and chalky texture, this actually reminds me a bit of a blanc de blanc champagne without the bubbles. Good depth for a muscadet, with a noticeable nutty quality to the finish. On day 2 the fruit is a bit rounder, showing melon and key lime pie. The chalkiness is toned down, and there's a weird chartreuse-like flavor, with a bit of bitterness on the finish.
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3/7/2012 - UpfromtheCellar wrote: 91 Points
Fab. If you have never tried one of these "oddities" you must. Grab a bottle of 10 year old Cru Beaujolais and a bottle of 15year old Muscadet from Luneau-Papin and have a feast. Add food if you must but don't let it get in the way of enjoying the wine!
Nose of hay, fruit, grass, stones. "smells like fresh sun dried laundry" Smooth, light, delightful, dancing on your tongue, with nice mouth feel with complex flavors on the finish that carry on and on. If you still think of Muscadet as some cheap $9 plonk that you drag out once a year for oysters, wake up. This is a whole different league. A must try on anyone's "wine bucket list"!
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2/7/2012 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 90 Points
DC Crew's Gem Tasting - 3rd Annual (Palena - Washington, DC): While waiting at Weygandt Wines for everyone to arrive for the tasting, we popped this aged muscadet. I was really impressed with this wine. Aromas of lemon peel, sea salt and mixed nuts. The combination of nervy acidity and mature, nutty fruit is spectacular. Still vibrant and solid, and I'd love the opportunity to drink this over the course of a few hours to see how it develops.
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9/30/2011 - tooch wrote: 88 Points
Had this alongside the 1999. Another enjoyable Muscadet, with a briny-ness and focus that is wonderful. A little lighter than the featherweight 1999, so some might be turned off by its lack of density.
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8/6/2011 - Jossik wrote: 89 Points
Gran bell'esempio di Muscadet maturo, iodato e dolce, con note di alghe e mare. Bella struttura in bocca ma bevibilissimo
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4/4/2011 - wallstreet wrote: 92 Points
Drinking real well. I love this wine with the right food! Paired it with Scallops this time.
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2/12/2011 - drwine2001 wrote:
Still pale. Amazingly youthful chalk, soil, and orange zest with the extra layer of flesh and the barest hint of caramel that age brings. Phenomenal complexity and value.
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12/11/2010 - wineshlub wrote: 94 Points
Perfume like aromas of honeysuckle and thyme. Rich palate of lemons and almonds, with sherry like notes. Beautiful mineral laced finish. Everything is in perfect balance, this is just a great wine.
This is the first time I have had a Muscadet with significant age, and it was a revelation. I don't know what I would have thought this was if I tasted it blind, I would definitely have thought it was young, and I would never have guessed it was Muscadet.
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11/5/2010 - wallstreet wrote:
a really great muscadet. Pear, perfumed, melon and aged to perfection. Can go another 10 years.
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6/16/2010 - RajivAyyangar wrote: 88 Points
Blinds with Kirk and Tooch (Portland, ME): WHITE 4
Light gold.
Overripe starfruit! sweet nose!
Light+ body. Delightful, crisp, slight frizzante.
No idea what this is.
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Post Reveal:
1997 muscadet
DougS: muscadet doesn't really age... hmmmmm
95% of muscadet is bad.... can't age... but when it's good... amazing.
Chambers street wine nyc- louis dressner, importer.
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6/16/2010 - tooch wrote: 91 Points
no formal notes
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6/16/2010 - Kirk Grant wrote: 90 Points
Portland...a new friend visits (Portland): Color: Pale onion skin
Smell: Ocean spray, star fruit, Asian pear, and green apple
Taste: Star fruit, apple, pear, honey, and ginger.
Overall: a stunning wine that was quite a learning experience. I will definately have to seek out some more of these wines.
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5/27/2010 - bg2167 wrote: 84 Points
It was a great learning experience to drink mature Muscadet and one that I enjoyed the clams and blackfish. It's definitely still going strong!
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3/23/2010 - MRichman wrote:
Soft, full and mature. Expansive fruit with lots of flowery perfume, some nuttiness and some lemony acid to balance. A very pretty wine with a long bright finish. Mineral with a touch of steel and a hint of spritz. Very nice. Drinking very well with no signs of tiring. My favorite Muscadet to date.
B
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12/25/2009 - zinhead wrote: 92 Points
Medium yellow core to rim with lemon, lime minerals yeast and slight floral. Light bodied with medium plus length. Had this Xmas Eve with oysters, crab and lobster. Delicious wine. Loved it.
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12/9/2009 - Serge Birbrair wrote:
The taster next to me and me exclaimed at the same time after the first sip:
"This wine begs for oysters!" and it surely does. I could almost taste 'em on the tip of my tongue, minerals are second to none in this wine.
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12/8/2009 - wallstreet wrote:
consistent tasting notes from previous tastings. An excellent wine that does not disappoint, but will also live for many years to come and improve with bottle aging. I love this wine. I don't say that often.
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11/22/2009 - wallstreet wrote:
A bargain priced wine. Much better than the 23 bucks I paid. This wine is very pleasing and went well with the seafood appetizers we had and have a very nice finish. Air time helped it develop somewhat in the glass.
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8/17/2009 - gbauer wrote:
Consistent with previous notes, if not better. At this price, with this age, wonderful.
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8/8/2009 - tcfishler wrote:
Deep straw. Gorgeous minerality glides from nose to palate effortlessly. Just beautiful, beautiful rocks all around; this is an elite Muscadet in an ethereal place right now.
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6/29/2009 - brooklynguy wrote: 90 Points
Muscadet Dinner (Adam's House): Next to the above wines the nose here is much more mature, with wild mushrooms in the foreground and the immutable brine and citrus aromas underneath. A truly compelling nose that was at its most expressive a solid hour after opening. The palate was as youthful as the 2005 I had a few months ago. This wine seems as if it could do another 15 years in the cellar without blinking
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9/13/2008 - steffenpelz wrote:
Great wine. Seems so fresh and zingy, it's near impossible that it's eleven years old. Tastes like a young Muscadet...fresh, racy, minerals and crushed sea shells and some nice green apple peel fruit. This has got to be tasted to be believed. In my opinion worlds better than the 1995 Clos des Allees.
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5/16/2008 - drwine2001 wrote:
Only differences from previous bottles were some mustiness on the nose which blew off, and a little more body. Excellent and in so many ways, a dead ringer for Chablis from a classic (i.e., not too ripe) vintage. Hard to beat an 11 year old white wine with such a great combination of youthful vigor and complexity.
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3/11/2008 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light yellow, not quite as pale as last bottle. Great iodine and seashell nose with tremendous acid cut and soil tones on the palate. Will go on-amazing.
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1/18/2008 - gbauer wrote:
Classic Muscadet on the nose, with good sea air and minerality. I little more reticent in the mouth than I remembered. Maybe too cold?
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9/2/2007 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 90 Points
Another back vintage L d'Or as fresh as a current release, though this actually seems rounder and less acidic than most. The usual expected brilliance with oysters on the half-shell. Definitely one of the most slam-dunk milk-and-cookies, peanut-butter-and-jelly matches in all of wine. Even the oysters themselves don't taste as much like the sea as the backdraft of this wine immediately afterwards. For that one fleeting moment you feel like packing your bags, buying a boat, growing a beard, and living a life at sea.
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8/2/2007 - drwine2001 wrote:
A Loire Extravaganza ("Villa M", San Francisco): Amazingly pale and limpid--could have been the 2005 visually. Wonderful sea breeze quality to the nose. Mouthwatering freshness and acidity which begged for oysters! Impressive focus and youthful vivacity for a 10 year old wine.
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3/31/2007 - gbauer wrote:
Not much on the nose but it might have been a little cold. In the mouth, classic Muscadet -- stone, yeast, a little citrus. I would not have guessed this was ten years old.
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3/14/2007 - 14frimaire wrote:
Just beautiful -- this is really getting there. The aromatics are lovely, citrus fruits, sea air, a little chalk and sea shell, it's really opened up. The palate follows, but it is still a bit tight. I'd say this is in early prime-time.
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