Vibrant white wines tasted in 2021

The selected vibrant bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. Featured values include 6 wines from the Pays Nantais.

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2021 (between April and December). The tasting notes are listed by increasing prices, with the following format:

Appellation – producer – plot or brand – variety

Approximate price — vintage — general impression – on nose – on palate – after swallowing

Muscadet Sèvre et Maine sur lie — Rémi Branger, Gwénaëlle Croix - Domaine de la Pépière — Domaine de la Pépière

8 € — 2020 — pure - illuminating, smoky - illuminating, crystalline, smoky, refreshing

Vin de France [Pays nantais] — Christophe Bosque - Vinilibre / devini.fr — Remettons la France au goulot ! [sol sur gabbro] / Ce qi nous lie — (melon de Bourgogne)

9.2 € — 2020 — pure - lychee, nougat, smoked - melon, unfiltered (grainy, cloudy), bitter, light, pearling, fresh - nougat

Alsace — Jean Pierre Rietsch - Domaine Rietsch — Tout Blanc (au litre)

10 € — 2020 — pure, intense - white fruit, lime - not velvety, nougat, aromatic, a little stiff, lively

Vin de France [Touraine] — Olivier Lemasson - Les Vins contés — Le Puits — (chardonnay, sauvignon blanc)

10 € — 2020 — passion fruit - passion fruit, nougat, dense, lively

Muscadet — Jérémie Huchet — Chemin des Prières [roche-mère de gneiss et de granite]

11 € — 2019 — nougat - no smoothness, tiny gas beads, nougat, light, fresh, alcohol does not stay: does not heat up

Muscadet — Jérémie Huchet — Les Montys Le Parc

11 € — 2019 — illuminating, hazelnut, pear - not velvety, hazelnut, tiny gas beads, a bit stiff, fresh

Bourgogne aligoté — Ludovic et Emilien Bonnardot - Domaine Bonnardot

12 € — 2018 — pure - nougat, frangipane - no smoothness, glycerin, juicy, nougat but no residual sugar, no stiffness, lively

Alsace — Mireille et Patrick Meyer - Domaine Julien Meyer — Petite fleur - macération - Nature [sans soufre] — Muscat (ottonel)

14 € — 2019 — intense, nougat, raspberry, muscat - a huge aromatic intensity, raspberry, muscat, citrus, fresh

Muscadet — Marc Ollivier [jsq 2018], Rémi Branger, Gwénaëlle Croix - EARL La Pépière — Monnières-Saint-Fiacre [orthogneiss]

14 € — 2017 — hazelnut, seashell - not velvety, hazelnut, seashell, full, no stiffness, fresh

Muscadet — Marion Pescheux, Manuel Landron - Domaine Complemen’terre — Le Mortier Gobin

15 € — 2017 — great purity, great aromatic intensity - hazelnut, grapefruit - no velvety, hazelnut, grapefruit, tiny gas beads, fresh

Pfälzer Landwein [Palatinate], Wein aus Deutschland — Daniel & Jonas Brand - Weingut Brand — Wilder Satz — [Müller Thurgau 38%]

15 € — 2020 — great purity - nougat more than pear - nougat more than pear, enormous aromatic intensity, bitter, cloudy / small particles, fresh - nothing

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