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French white wine values tasted in 2009

The selected vibrant bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. Featured values include 7 Loire wines.

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2009 (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

Vin de pays d’Oc — Domaine des Lièvres — Chardonnay

— 2008 — not interesting but technically well made, little aromas (a note of grapefruit) - the nose is weak - the palate shows a hint of residual sugar but remains fresh

Alsace — Schaetzel — Edelzwicker 100 cl

4 € — 2006 —

Muscadet wine labelMuscadet — Marc Ollivier - Domaine de la Pépière — Domaine de la Pépière

— 2008 — apple skin, minerally - lichee, fruitgrape, starfruit, not dense, fresh

Muscadet-de-sèvre-et-maine-sur-lie wine labelMuscadet de sèvre et maine sur lie — A.Michel Brégeon

— 2007 — not onctuous, watermelon, intense like the 2007 Briords, lively

Muscadet wine labelMuscadet — Marc Ollivier - Domaine de la Pépière — Les Gras moutons

— 2008 — full maturity of grapes - lichee - lichee, not very onctuous but round, with tiny gas beads, vibrant and fresh

Muscadet — Marc Ollivier - Domaine de la Pépière — Clos des Briords — Cuvée Vieilles Vignes

— 2007 — you should keep and age this wine - closed and then even more vibrant than the 2007 Brégeon, dry, minerally and fresh

Côtes-de-provence wine labelCôtes de provence — Domaine Turenne — Cuvée Antoine

7 € — 2008 — onctuous, dense, fruit, much alcohol, fresh

Côtes de provence — Domaine du Cagueloup — Cuvée Minette — [50% clairette, 50% ugni blanc]

— 2008 — flower, honey, starfruit - onctuous from alcohol but not from residual sugar, nectarine, apricot, pear, finger biscuit, fresh - starfruit

Table — Sylvain Saux - Pechigo — La Mothe

— 2008 — finger biscuit, nougat - finger biscuit, nougat, wide but dry, fresh

Vouvray wine labelVouvray — François Pinon — Tradition [demi-sec]

8 € — 2006 — no manipulation - fruit (citrus) - onctuous, with fruit (honeydew melon, peach, fruit of the loom), a hint of chalk, soft (demi-sec), pure, fresh

Vouvray — François Pinon — Silex Noir [demi-sec]

9 € — 2007 — pear or peach - onctuous, intense, pear or peach, less soft than the 2006 Tradition, fresh and even more lively than Les Trois Argiles

Vouvray — François Pinon — Les Trois Argiles [demi-sec]

9 € — 2007 — similar to Silex Noir but much more mineral - fruit of the loom, a note of white fruit, a hint of chalk - onctuous, fruit of the loom, a hint of chalk, soft (demi-sec), less intense than Silex Noir, with more body, fresh but no as vivid

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