Worried that I had forgotten about this for too long, but the strength of the vintage and the producer were immediately apparent. Classic seashell and salt water with lemon zest accents, this showed a richness/depth that made the wine almost majestic in a carved statue way. I would be inclined to drink my remaining bottle in the near term, not because I fear a decline, but because the wine is so delicious right now.
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My last bottle, which I believe was past its prime. It had some oxidative notes, which reminded me of some Jura whites. Still interesting with strong lemon and mineral notes, but not representative of what this wine should be. This was probably just a bad bottle, others will likely have better experiences.
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Don't think the color has changed in 10 years. Nose of light citrus, shy florals, and raw pizza dough in a faintly pleasant way, kind of yeasty. Distinctly saline flavors combine lemon and rock. Lingering finish, hews to the initial impressions -- there's no kaleidoscopic blossoming, not that I expected one. If I had raw shellfish handy that's what this would complement best. Aging didn't hurt this but it doesn't seem to have changed it all that much. Maybe it'll go on for 10 more years, but I wouldn't bet on any improvements, it has pretty much peaked or passed that point by a couple of years.
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Really in the zone now. Yellow fruit on the nose with citrus and sea breeze. Lovely on the palate. Laser focus but with textural roundness that widens the presence across the palate. It’s like sucking on white stones that have been drowned in yellow citrus juices and sprinkled with sea water. But despite that acidity, it retains an inviting softness. Wonderful QPR.
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I refilled on this recently, a wine I love, but noticed one bottle had a slightly depressed cork. Opened, cork seemed saturated, wine had some nuttiness that I’ve not run across before, some oxidation, so switched back to previous night’s St. Aubin. Hopefully just the one bottle.
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Compared with a bottle of 2012 Briords opened a couple of days ago this is much less evolved; indeed, this seems very little changed from the way it presented on release if my memory is accurate. Lightly colored with lots of citrus (lemon, grapefruit); tangy, especially on the palate, while aromas lean a bit more towards subdued white florals. Very interesting contrast between the two wines. Quality is obvious here.
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While these were very good young, my last three bottles have been hit or miss. This one is pretty good, but I don't think I'll sit on Muscadet for this long going forward.
This bottle was much more advanced than my last bottle in the fall. Nutty, mildly oxidized, and a little appley. I didn’t take notes on the last bottle, but I think it must have been similar to a bottle I had in 2017. I’ll open another soon to see.
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Excellent as always. Yellow and white fruit on the nose, saline, lemon palate, and a lovely oily texture palate. I have two bottles left, I think I will sit on them for at least two years. Great now though.
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Pnp. Grorgeous light yellow hue with an enticing stony and citrus bouquet that is echoed on the beautifully balanced palate. It finishes with considerable length. Day two and the wine has not lost a step. In fact, it has added a bit of depth to the mid-palate.
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Echo earlier notes....going 'strong' and a lovely mix of fresh lightly rich qualities as the citrus/mineral edge morphs bringing out more of hints of floral, yellow stone fruit, pear, lemon, Meyer lemon maybe, all having a clean & fresh quality. Improved with air. Nice, not so much wow as delightfully good. One more to go and I think I'll wait a while and see what develops--as good things happened so far.
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As complete a bottle of Clisson as I can remember, maybe the 3L makes it seem even creamier. Cream of granite and yellow fruits with some layered autolytic notes. Fantastic with whole snapper on the grill (the snapper themselves were beautiful, spear caught NC fish). In the pantheon of Pépière , this is not the oyster wine, this is the fish and duck rilletes wine. I could drink 6 or 9L of this.
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Really good, lovely moderate rich mineral, lemon, hints of melon, lightest floral touch. Deceptively good acidity and length--served with sauteed soft shell crabs, mango/avocado/tomato salsa, quinoa salad, and wine just cruised along as perfect foil and complement, and then cleansed the palate after with final tastes. All in all impressive, going strong.
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Un formidable RQP. Nez de fleurs d'acacia, de camomille et d'autre fleurs jaunes (citronnier?) sur des notes subtilement caramélisées. La bouche est encore en grande forme, fraîche, nette, minérale avec une finale à peine amère, comme un pépin de pomme. Is Loire the new bourgogne?
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Delicious now, with citrus fruit and crushed seashell minerality. It’s medium bodied, and the finish is persistent, flavorful and comes with a bracing finishing kick.
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A few years in the cellar, and this is in the zone. Ripe lemon, peach skin, seashell and salty minerals create a compelling, invigorating sensation that keeps drawing me back for more. Moderate acids make it very easy to drink, with (pan seared scallops) or without food. Wonderful.
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Mid-deep yellow in glass. Muted nose, quite light palate. Nice aged citrus, citrus, lemon, bit floral, mineral, graceful muscadet, and less body and more reserved than my experience with similarly aged Briords. 2010 Clisson opened over the summer had more complexity and deeper flavor profile. Interesting.
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Incredible value and still has plenty of life left. From a 750 ml cellared since release. Lovely nose of lemon rind, sea salt, gravel and lees. The 6 oz I left in the bottle and tried two days later showed even greater complexity and better integrated leesy character.
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This was on, the best of my bottles so far. White flowers and orange tones fruit are backed by notes of honey, beeswax, juniper and a mineral base. Terrific aromatics over two days. Slightly plush body that is offset by an underlying acidic charge.
Try on now if you have them.
Very Good
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A lot like a slightly richer, riper Briords. Lots of citrus blossom and fruit on the nose. Maybe a tiny touch of honey there, too, and a bit less of the seashore, but really aromatic. Tons of white fruit flavors with, for me anyway, a quinine-like drop or two of bitter on the finish. Reminds me of an unoaked Chablis.
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Hot August night (!), and a crisp, refreshing Muscadet hits the spot. This bottling works well for me because it has a touch more body than the Briords, but still that intensity of mineral cut, and crisp tree fruit tones. Each sniff brings back the combination of the sea and a not quite ripe white peach - the fruit smells great, and a bit more high toned than one ready to eat. Each sip sharpens the palate, with lingering fruit and fresh acidity. Brilliant stuff.
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Light yellow with a nose of white fruit, saline and a hint of lemon rind. With some air the lemon scent grew more pronounced, morphing into a scent akin to Lemon-scented Pledge furniture cleaner.
On the palate the flavors generally follow the nose, though the lemon is more oil than skin and it features most prominently. A touch of lime appears on the med+ finish. Lightly creamy mouthfeel with nice concentration and persistence. While approachable and tasty now,, it's also somewhat one-dimensional. Check in 2018.
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First of a 9-pack. Still quite young and taut. Nose is under-ripe white fruit, seashells and mineral. Palate is concentrated with light-to-medium body and racy acids. Give this a couple of years.
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Delish, round ripe and crisp. Drank on the beach and it was a crowd pleaser. This was my first experience with this wine, and I will definitely purchase it again. From Mag, and I think this will benefit from a few more years sideways.
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This seems to be in a weird spot now. The flavors and profile are similar to the bottle I had back in September but the intense fruit seems to be over arching the clean mineral components right now, making this disjointed and clouding the refreshing aspects until later on the palate.
Hold
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Lush and creamy, with a little less oceany zing than the lighter Pepiere cuvees. Still good, but I'm not quire sure where this wine is going. Held up nicely on day 2.
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Lemon zest and oil with a salinity on the nose. A great fleshiness to the palate with richer notes of blood orange, lime and a expressive minerality. Great stuff
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Lemon, pear, underripe stone fruit, mint and thyme. Has some lushness from the lees. Seems a little simple and subdued at first, but the oceany/granite depth in the midpalate is there, you just have to look for it. Very good, but fantastic with a piece of sauteed cod, one of those synergistic pairings that turns the wine's intensity up three notches and makes it zing.
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A richer, rounder muscadet that offers an almost buttery nose containing some tropical and stone fruit cut with some chalky minerals. While there is more citrus zip on the palate than the nose suggested, this clearly weightier and fatter than the laser-like Briords. Very nice.
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Pretty much what WMWG said in his note on the same bottle. Really refreshing, with bright fruit and lots of minerality in a very seamless, polished package.
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Really nice wine. Crystaline minerality with notes of ripe papaya and pear, and a slightly herbaceous/ peach pit top note. With air the nose takes on a pretty floral quality and the palate a trace of orange blossom. This is lusher and fuller than the briords, the batonnage is much more apparent. The finish is cleansing and lengthy leaving a saline/ mineral sensation on the palate.
Very Good - Drink or Hold
Note: If you're expecting the electric lemon/ grapefruit/ sea spray characteristics of the Briords, look elsewhere. This is riper and shows much different mineral aspects. Certainly a quality wine all its own.
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I recall my first bottle of 2012 Briords: electric. This Clisson isn't that--it's fuller and rounder, at least on day one. This bottle happened to be finished on day one so I didn't get to follow up on it. In my experience, Ollivier's wines only improve after they've been open for a day or two (or three), so I don't think I've seen this wine at its best.
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Magnum. Pale. Excellent salinity and stone to accompany underripe lemon. Dry but slightly creamier and rounder around the edges than usual. No complaints, though.
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From a mag--It just became more and more crystalline the longer it sat, and by day two it was really singing. I would love to age this mid-term and get it at its most fresh and mineral and incisive point.
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Marine/shellfish/mineral aroma - attractive depth and savoriness, gaining intensity with air in the bottle - with lemon juice and peel, touches of flowers and herbs, and fleeting cool, subtle stone fruit. Similar on the palate - seamless combination of marine/saline/limestone/metallic minerality with lemon/peel/herbs, deepening toward the finish, getting more briny, savory and complex. A touch bitter in the finish, making it even more refreshing and drinkable. Nice!
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From magnum. Following the smells I guessed this is a very simple SB. In any case a Muscadet. When warmed, cat pepee. Nothing elegant here. Palate is short and little acid. Didn't impress me at all.
De una magnum. Si seguimos los olores pensaría que es un savignon Blanc muy simplota. En ningún caso una Muscadet. Cuando se calentó, pipí de gato. No encontré nada elegante. La boca es corta y un poco ácida. No me impresionó lo más mínimo.
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Good, but it didn't knock my socks off. Very pure, a cleansing style laced with something vaguely chalky, and so easy to drink it should probably be in full-liter bottles. But my favorite Muscadets tend to be more angular and crunchy with that sensation like they just painted the roof of your mouth with stalactites, and this one instead was pretty slick and smooth and creamy.
Austere when first opened. A couple of hours after being decanted, lemony with quinine. Less bitter and more creamy toward the end of the bottle, like lemon meringue pie.
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Opened one for learning puposes, though I generally prefer good muscadet with some years on it. Everthing Tooch et al. say: taut, energetic, intense. For my tastes, however, one to cellar for a glorious future. For dinner this weekend, it's 2002 Luneau.
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This wine lives up to its billing as a particularly pure, intense expression of this variety and terroir. It doesn't have the easy appeal of the Briords, and I won't be opening another bottle soon, but is loaded with character and energy. We recently opened a beautiful 2002 Luneau-Papin Excelsior, and I would expect this wine to fall into the same category: maturing to a transparent, round, golden glory in ten or fifteen years - or more. IMHO, however good Muscadet may be young, it's an order or two of magnitude better with aging in proportion to the quality of the vintage.
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Sunday Night Dinner (Eric & Megan's - Chicago): Intensely concentrated and bright citrus tones are at the center of this wine today. I decanted this about 2 hours before dinner and I think it might have helped some of the fresher floral elements to open up too. Great Clisson that'll be around for a long time.
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A beautiful young Clisson that is drinking very well now, but has a long life ahead of it; The nose has some classic notes of lemon, pear and crushed rocks, while the palate has impressive concentration with rich stone fruits underpinned by a nice base of salinity and firm acidity on the finish; It's worth backing up the truck for this vintage, as this will only get more interesting with age
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So this is not really typical of Muscadet. It's riper than normal -- more in the honeydew/green apple spectrum than the more typical lemon -- and it's bigger and rounder and more extracted than, say, Briords tends to be, or than the 2010 was. That's by Muscadet standards, mind you, this isn't a California chardonnay. But it's still got lots of herbal and floral and piney things going on, and it still has that wonderful mineral lashing through the midpalate, that gets more poweful and bracing as the wine warms up in the glass. Just as good on day 2, maybe even better. Wonderful with mussels.
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The 12 has a level of precision/focus, finesse and clarity that sets it apart from previous vintages. I have been a fan of every vintage since 05, but this might have the makings to be my favorite.
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8/26/2023 - Rieslingfan wrote:
Worried that I had forgotten about this for too long, but the strength of the vintage and the producer were immediately apparent. Classic seashell and salt water with lemon zest accents, this showed a richness/depth that made the wine almost majestic in a carved statue way. I would be inclined to drink my remaining bottle in the near term, not because I fear a decline, but because the wine is so delicious right now.
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2/20/2023 - Saxman1984 wrote:
My last bottle, which I believe was past its prime. It had some oxidative notes, which reminded me of some Jura whites. Still interesting with strong lemon and mineral notes, but not representative of what this wine should be. This was probably just a bad bottle, others will likely have better experiences.
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12/5/2022 - slanum wrote:
Don't think the color has changed in 10 years. Nose of light citrus, shy florals, and raw pizza dough in a faintly pleasant way, kind of yeasty. Distinctly saline flavors combine lemon and rock. Lingering finish, hews to the initial impressions -- there's no kaleidoscopic blossoming, not that I expected one. If I had raw shellfish handy that's what this would complement best. Aging didn't hurt this but it doesn't seem to have changed it all that much. Maybe it'll go on for 10 more years, but I wouldn't bet on any improvements, it has pretty much peaked or passed that point by a couple of years.
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8/4/2022 - JonathanP wrote: 90 Points
Really in the zone now. Yellow fruit on the nose with citrus and sea breeze. Lovely on the palate. Laser focus but with textural roundness that widens the presence across the palate. It’s like sucking on white stones that have been drowned in yellow citrus juices and sprinkled with sea water. But despite that acidity, it retains an inviting softness. Wonderful QPR.
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2/15/2022 - CADomer Likes this wine: 91 Points
Initially loaded with seashells and iodine, but fruit emerged with air and became quite lovely.
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9/7/2021 - DaleW wrote:
lovely wine, seashell over citrus, crunchy and bright, just a hint of mature nuttiness. B+/A-
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3/13/2021 - Nanda wrote: 90 Points
Still drinking like a new release with bright mineral-laden white fruits and chiseling acidity.
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2/1/2021 - DaleW wrote:
I refilled on this recently, a wine I love, but noticed one bottle had a slightly depressed cork. Opened, cork seemed saturated, wine had some nuttiness that I’ve not run across before, some oxidation, so switched back to previous night’s St. Aubin. Hopefully just the one bottle.
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12/24/2020 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Superb as aperitif with Christmas oysters. They are cousins. This is in a great spot.
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11/23/2020 - slanum wrote:
Compared with a bottle of 2012 Briords opened a couple of days ago this is much less evolved; indeed, this seems very little changed from the way it presented on release if my memory is accurate. Lightly colored with lots of citrus (lemon, grapefruit); tangy, especially on the palate, while aromas lean a bit more towards subdued white florals. Very interesting contrast between the two wines. Quality is obvious here.
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10/20/2020 - Outplaying wrote:
While these were very good young, my last three bottles have been hit or miss. This one is pretty good, but I don't think I'll sit on Muscadet for this long going forward.
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9/7/2020 - Outplaying wrote:
This bottle was less advanced than the last one. Still, the wine is getting darker and is not as youthful. I preferred this younger and fresher.
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8/31/2020 - gzim wrote: 86 Points
not as enjoyable as the other mag I drank a few years ago. Seems like the fruit has faded, and left behind the structure and finish.
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8/24/2020 - Outplaying wrote:
This bottle was much more advanced than my last bottle in the fall. Nutty, mildly oxidized, and a little appley. I didn’t take notes on the last bottle, but I think it must have been similar to a bottle I had in 2017. I’ll open another soon to see.
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7/25/2020 - Saxman1984 wrote:
Excellent as always. Yellow and white fruit on the nose, saline, lemon palate, and a lovely oily texture palate. I have two bottles left, I think I will sit on them for at least two years. Great now though.
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3/3/2020 - cardsandwine Likes this wine:
Pnp. Grorgeous light yellow hue with an enticing stony and citrus bouquet that is echoed on the beautifully balanced palate. It finishes with considerable length. Day two and the wine has not lost a step. In fact, it has added a bit of depth to the mid-palate.
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2/7/2020 - Rieslingfan wrote:
TN: Charity Tasting (Ramey, Massican, Pepiere, Patricia Green, LdH, Idlewild, Bedrock, Riverain and more): Another big winner with the group, this is showing mid-palate richness, but still has great finishing cut. Wonderful to drink now, and for a long time.
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1/12/2020 - wayfarer Likes this wine: 91 Points
Echo earlier notes....going 'strong' and a lovely mix of fresh lightly rich qualities as the citrus/mineral edge morphs bringing out more of hints of floral, yellow stone fruit, pear, lemon, Meyer lemon maybe, all having a clean & fresh quality. Improved with air. Nice, not so much wow as delightfully good. One more to go and I think I'll wait a while and see what develops--as good things happened so far.
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12/26/2019 - rsbeck wrote: 92 Points
Popped and poured. Similar to previous. 92+
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11/23/2019 - rsbeck wrote: 92 Points
Popped, poured, consumed over next 90 minutes. Rocks, sea-breeze, citrus, a touch of oily glycerine, all in exquisite balance. 92+
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10/18/2019 - vulgar little monkey wrote: 94 Points
As complete a bottle of Clisson as I can remember, maybe the 3L makes it seem even creamier. Cream of granite and yellow fruits with some layered autolytic notes. Fantastic with whole snapper on the grill (the snapper themselves were beautiful, spear caught NC fish). In the pantheon of Pépière , this is not the oyster wine, this is the fish and duck rilletes wine. I could drink 6 or 9L of this.
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7/26/2019 - wayfarer Likes this wine: 90 Points
Really good, lovely moderate rich mineral, lemon, hints of melon, lightest floral touch. Deceptively good acidity and length--served with sauteed soft shell crabs, mango/avocado/tomato salsa, quinoa salad, and wine just cruised along as perfect foil and complement, and then cleansed the palate after with final tastes. All in all impressive, going strong.
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5/25/2019 - poste244 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Un formidable RQP. Nez de fleurs d'acacia, de camomille et d'autre fleurs jaunes (citronnier?) sur des notes subtilement caramélisées.
La bouche est encore en grande forme, fraîche, nette, minérale avec une finale à peine amère, comme un pépin de pomme.
Is Loire the new bourgogne?
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5/12/2019 - Rieslingfan wrote:
Delicious now, with citrus fruit and crushed seashell minerality. It’s medium bodied, and the finish is persistent, flavorful and comes with a bracing finishing kick.
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4/1/2019 - Rieslingfan wrote:
A few years in the cellar, and this is in the zone. Ripe lemon, peach skin, seashell and salty minerals create a compelling, invigorating sensation that keeps drawing me back for more. Moderate acids make it very easy to drink, with (pan seared scallops) or without food. Wonderful.
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2/21/2019 - millej wrote:
Pretty shut down at the moment. Give it time in the cellar.
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12/14/2018 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Apple and dry mineral lemonade on the nose. Wow that is delicious.
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11/2/2018 - wayfarer Likes this wine: 89 Points
Mid-deep yellow in glass. Muted nose, quite light palate. Nice aged citrus, citrus, lemon, bit floral, mineral, graceful muscadet, and less body and more reserved than my experience with similarly aged Briords. 2010 Clisson opened over the summer had more complexity and deeper flavor profile. Interesting.
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6/6/2018 - quistz Likes this wine: 93 Points
Incredible value and still has plenty of life left. From a 750 ml cellared since release. Lovely nose of lemon rind, sea salt, gravel and lees. The 6 oz I left in the bottle and tried two days later showed even greater complexity and better integrated leesy character.
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6/2/2018 - WMWG Likes this wine: 90 Points
This was on, the best of my bottles so far. White flowers and orange tones fruit are backed by notes of honey, beeswax, juniper and a mineral base. Terrific aromatics over two days. Slightly plush body that is offset by an underlying acidic charge.
Try on now if you have them.
Very Good
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3/11/2018 - cardsandwine Likes this wine:
From magnum. Stunning wine. Crisp, clean with bright fruit and brilliant acidity.
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11/8/2017 - slanum wrote:
A lot like a slightly richer, riper Briords. Lots of citrus blossom and fruit on the nose. Maybe a tiny touch of honey there, too, and a bit less of the seashore, but really aromatic. Tons of white fruit flavors with, for me anyway, a quinine-like drop or two of bitter on the finish. Reminds me of an unoaked Chablis.
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8/13/2017 - Outplaying wrote:
Very good. More concentration than the Briords, but it still has the saline and minerality that I love.
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8/9/2017 - Rieslingfan wrote:
Hot August night (!), and a crisp, refreshing Muscadet hits the spot. This bottling works well for me because it has a touch more body than the Briords, but still that intensity of mineral cut, and crisp tree fruit tones. Each sniff brings back the combination of the sea and a not quite ripe white peach - the fruit smells great, and a bit more high toned than one ready to eat. Each sip sharpens the palate, with lingering fruit and fresh acidity. Brilliant stuff.
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2/20/2017 - Billigan Likes this wine: 89 Points
Salty and flinty, but not the same acid-driven precision you'd expect, as this has a riper, creamier lemon fruit mouthfeel.
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9/1/2016 - pren wrote: 90 Points
Good
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8/30/2016 - CMN wrote:
Light yellow with a nose of white fruit, saline and a hint of lemon rind. With some air the lemon scent grew more pronounced, morphing into a scent akin to Lemon-scented Pledge furniture cleaner.
On the palate the flavors generally follow the nose, though the lemon is more oil than skin and it features most prominently. A touch of lime appears on the med+ finish. Lightly creamy mouthfeel with nice concentration and persistence. While approachable and tasty now,, it's also somewhat one-dimensional. Check in 2018.
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8/26/2016 - Nanda wrote:
First of a 9-pack. Still quite young and taut. Nose is under-ripe white fruit, seashells and mineral. Palate is concentrated with light-to-medium body and racy acids. Give this a couple of years.
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8/18/2016 - AtoZ wrote:
Too young. Not distinctive.
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7/3/2016 - gzim Likes this wine: 90 Points
Delish, round ripe and crisp. Drank on the beach and it was a crowd pleaser. This was my first experience with this wine, and I will definitely purchase it again. From Mag, and I think this will benefit from a few more years sideways.
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3/12/2016 - WMWG wrote:
This seems to be in a weird spot now. The flavors and profile are similar to the bottle I had back in September but the intense fruit seems to be over arching the clean mineral components right now, making this disjointed and clouding the refreshing aspects until later on the palate.
Hold
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1/30/2016 - coremill wrote: 88 Points
Lush and creamy, with a little less oceany zing than the lighter Pepiere cuvees. Still good, but I'm not quire sure where this wine is going. Held up nicely on day 2.
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12/31/2015 - Bill Bucklew wrote: 90 Points
Lemon zest and oil with a salinity on the nose. A great fleshiness to the palate with richer notes of blood orange, lime and a expressive minerality. Great stuff
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10/21/2015 - coremill wrote: 90 Points
Lemon, pear, underripe stone fruit, mint and thyme. Has some lushness from the lees. Seems a little simple and subdued at first, but the oceany/granite depth in the midpalate is there, you just have to look for it. Very good, but fantastic with a piece of sauteed cod, one of those synergistic pairings that turns the wine's intensity up three notches and makes it zing.
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10/7/2015 - JonathanP wrote: 88 Points
A richer, rounder muscadet that offers an almost buttery nose containing some tropical and stone fruit cut with some chalky minerals. While there is more citrus zip on the palate than the nose suggested, this clearly weightier and fatter than the laser-like Briords. Very nice.
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9/22/2015 - salil wrote: 90 Points
Pretty much what WMWG said in his note on the same bottle. Really refreshing, with bright fruit and lots of minerality in a very seamless, polished package.
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9/22/2015 - WMWG wrote: 92 Points
Really nice wine. Crystaline minerality with notes of ripe papaya and pear, and a slightly herbaceous/ peach pit top note. With air the nose takes on a pretty floral quality and the palate a trace of orange blossom. This is lusher and fuller than the briords, the batonnage is much more apparent. The finish is cleansing and lengthy leaving a saline/ mineral sensation on the palate.
Very Good - Drink or Hold
Note: If you're expecting the electric lemon/ grapefruit/ sea spray characteristics of the Briords, look elsewhere. This is riper and shows much different mineral aspects. Certainly a quality wine all its own.
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7/11/2015 - slanum wrote:
I recall my first bottle of 2012 Briords: electric. This Clisson isn't that--it's fuller and rounder, at least on day one. This bottle happened to be finished on day one so I didn't get to follow up on it. In my experience, Ollivier's wines only improve after they've been open for a day or two (or three), so I don't think I've seen this wine at its best.
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6/22/2015 - drwine2001 wrote:
Magnum. Pale. Excellent salinity and stone to accompany underripe lemon. Dry but slightly creamier and rounder around the edges than usual. No complaints, though.
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6/20/2015 - Gargantua Likes this wine:
From a mag--It just became more and more crystalline the longer it sat, and by day two it was really singing. I would love to age this mid-term and get it at its most fresh and mineral and incisive point.
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6/19/2015 - Beerzebub Likes this wine:
Marine/shellfish/mineral aroma - attractive depth and savoriness, gaining intensity with air in the bottle - with lemon juice and peel, touches of flowers and herbs, and fleeting cool, subtle stone fruit. Similar on the palate - seamless combination of marine/saline/limestone/metallic minerality with lemon/peel/herbs, deepening toward the finish, getting more briny, savory and complex. A touch bitter in the finish, making it even more refreshing and drinkable. Nice!
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6/16/2015 - Harley1199 wrote:
From magnum. Following the smells I guessed this is a very simple SB. In any case a Muscadet. When warmed, cat pepee. Nothing elegant here. Palate is short and little acid. Didn't impress me at all.
De una magnum. Si seguimos los olores pensaría que es un savignon Blanc muy simplota. En ningún caso una Muscadet. Cuando se calentó, pipí de gato. No encontré nada elegante. La boca es corta y un poco ácida.
No me impresionó lo más mínimo.
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5/30/2015 - tooch wrote:
Crystalline, bright, and focused. Brilliant.
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5/11/2015 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 89 Points
Good, but it didn't knock my socks off. Very pure, a cleansing style laced with something vaguely chalky, and so easy to drink it should probably be in full-liter bottles. But my favorite Muscadets tend to be more angular and crunchy with that sensation like they just painted the roof of your mouth with stalactites, and this one instead was pretty slick and smooth and creamy.
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3/25/2015 - Ben H. Likes this wine:
Austere when first opened. A couple of hours after being decanted, lemony with quinine. Less bitter and more creamy toward the end of the bottle, like lemon meringue pie.
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3/8/2015 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Well anit this a rather amazing thing. Tons of fruit on it for a muscadet. Just opened. We shall see how it develops. BUt its amazing right now.
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3/4/2015 - fitzi wrote:
Opened one for learning puposes, though I generally prefer good muscadet with some years on it. Everthing Tooch et al. say: taut, energetic, intense. For my tastes, however, one to cellar for a glorious future. For dinner this weekend, it's 2002 Luneau.
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2/28/2015 - tooch wrote: 92 Points
Another great bottle. Lots of beautiful lemon tones with some oceanic notes in there for good measure. #oysteriffic!
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2/25/2015 - fitzi wrote:
This wine lives up to its billing as a particularly pure, intense expression of this variety and terroir. It doesn't have the easy appeal of the Briords, and I won't be opening another bottle soon, but is loaded with character and energy. We recently opened a beautiful 2002 Luneau-Papin Excelsior, and I would expect this wine to fall into the same category: maturing to a transparent, round, golden glory in ten or fifteen years - or more. IMHO, however good Muscadet may be young, it's an order or two of magnitude better with aging in proportion to the quality of the vintage.
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2/15/2015 - tooch wrote: 92 Points
Sunday Night Dinner (Eric & Megan's - Chicago): Intensely concentrated and bright citrus tones are at the center of this wine today. I decanted this about 2 hours before dinner and I think it might have helped some of the fresher floral elements to open up too. Great Clisson that'll be around for a long time.
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2/15/2015 - eluebchow wrote: 92 Points
A beautiful young Clisson that is drinking very well now, but has a long life ahead of it; The nose has some classic notes of lemon, pear and crushed rocks, while the palate has impressive concentration with rich stone fruits underpinned by a nice base of salinity and firm acidity on the finish; It's worth backing up the truck for this vintage, as this will only get more interesting with age
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2/9/2015 - coremill wrote: 91 Points
So this is not really typical of Muscadet. It's riper than normal -- more in the honeydew/green apple spectrum than the more typical lemon -- and it's bigger and rounder and more extracted than, say, Briords tends to be, or than the 2010 was. That's by Muscadet standards, mind you, this isn't a California chardonnay. But it's still got lots of herbal and floral and piney things going on, and it still has that wonderful mineral lashing through the midpalate, that gets more poweful and bracing as the wine warms up in the glass. Just as good on day 2, maybe even better. Wonderful with mussels.
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1/27/2015 - tdelorme wrote:
The 12 has a level of precision/focus, finesse and clarity that sets it apart from previous vintages. I have been a fan of every vintage since 05, but this might have the makings to be my favorite.
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