2012 Domaine Luneau-Papin Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine sur lie Vieilles Vignes Clos des Allées

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 90.1 points

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  4/22/2022 - bhouk wrote:

  Lemons, minerals and a medicine herb tanginess. Delivers complexity at an attractive price. Great for the cellar.

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  11/6/2014 - JVG wrote:

  Pale lemon color. Bright, fresh, and well layered on the nose, with citrus fruit aromas of lemon and lime juice, grapefruit, and tangerine zest, and beneath that, blossoming white flowers, sea breeze, and chalky mineral. As expected on the palate, lively with lots of citrus and sharp acid cut, with some savory mineral coming after. Mouthwatering, refreshing finish of grapefruit, chalk, and the sea. Delicious, good typicity, nice depth, and perfect food wine. Love it.

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  8/8/2014 - Tpairing wrote: 90 Points

  Top notch wine with grilled clams and sea bream. Top notch value!

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  7/9/2014 - forceberry wrote: 90 Points

  Very pale yellow-ish color. Very fresh and quite complex nose of ripe yellow apples and freshly peeled pear, some almondy character reminding me a bit of Verdicchio, a little bit of chemical acetone character, a hint of saline ocean air and a touch of creamy and leesy butterscotch character. The wine feels surprisingly concentrated, ripe and surprisingly rich on the palate for a Muscadet - there are flavors of ripe white fruits and citrus fruits, some sweet pear, a little bit of stony minerality and a hint of leesy richness. The acidity feels high, but definitely not as high as in Muscadets in general - perhaps some of that acid tang is masked by the ripe fruit? The finish is ripe and fruity with medium-to-moderately long flavors of ripe apples, wet stones, some saline mineral tang and a hint of pithy grapefruit.
  
  A very attractive, but also surprisingly rich and fruity example of Muscadet Sur Lie - unlike your run-of-the-mill Muscadets, which tend to be very light-bodied, racy and austere, this wine showed some serious old-vine concentration, power and richness with ripeness that is almost unheard-of in the normal Muscadet style. This wine actually gives you some idea how Melon should taste like if it weren't picked before its optimal ripeness! This wine doesn't step into that classic, austere Muscadet territory, but still it retains some sense of positive neutrality and powerful minerality under its concentrated fruit, giving it great freshness. Very lovely, impressive and approachable style - and I wouldn't be surprised one bit, if this wine could age for up to a decade, if cellared well. At approx. 18€ this was priced according to its quality.

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  6/4/2014 - mrfroopy wrote: 93 Points

  Well this is the real Deal. Firm as hell. I now need to buy a case to drink over the next 15 years.. Bitter Pith, Rocks and armor for now.. A reall winner for the ages

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