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NV Charles de Floricourt Champagne Brut
4/24/2024 - talbot61 Likes this wine:
Two stars in the Guide Hachette. 12 euros at Carrefour. What's not to like? The wine has high acidity and is a bit nondescript in the mid-palate, but these are quibbles about a champagne that is perfectly respectable -- biscuity and dry and complex enough -- for a low price. If you are rushing out to your local Carrefour to stock up, note that the wine will be much better with a few years in the cellar.
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2022 Domaine Ledogar Corbières La Compagnon
4/24/2024 - talbot61 Likes this wine:
This is high-quality plonk, by which I mean that it is an inexpensive wine that is completely drinkable, with no obvious faults, but with no attributes (complexity, structure, depth, intensity) that would justify a higher price.
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2022 Domaine Ledogar Carignan Blanc
4/24/2024 - talbot61 Likes this wine:
Carignan blanc is an unusual grape, a mutation of carignan gris that was used for blending in Languedoc and Spain but is now disappearing. There are two Ledogar cuvees of carignan blanc; we had the less expensive Vin de France with the butterfly label. Light color. Slightly musky aroma, with a fuzzy suggestion of geranium leaf. High acidity. Mineral. Herbal. Saline. The wine is too young -- it was much more rounded and approachable on the second day. On our trip through Languedoc, we drank several wines made from grenache gris and concluded that this is one's the world's underappreciated grapes. On the basis of this brief exposure to carignan blanc, I am not yet willing to conclude that its obscurity is undeserved.
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