Vibrant white wines tasted in 2013

The selected vibrant bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. Featured values include 3 Muscadet-de-sèvre-et-maine.

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2013 (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

Languedoc la clape — Les caves de Château Rouquette — Les petits grains ("Bag in Box")

3.4 € — nv — fruity aromas of roussanne and marsanne - fat but fresh, powerful but not stiff

Muscadet wine label Muscadet — Marc Ollivier et Rémi Branger - EARL La Pépière — Les Gras Moutons

6.8 € — 2011 — lichee, kiwi - not oily but intense, fresh

Saint chinian — Jean-Marie Rimbert — L’Agathe — Blanc

7 € — 2011 — aromas of freshly cut hay, of starfruit - oily, starfruit, a hint of bitterness, fresh, no stiffness

Muscadet wine label Muscadet — Marc Ollivier et Rémi Branger - EARL La Pépière — Clos des Briords — Vieilles vignes

7.2 € — 2012 — very harmonious - lichee - not oily, lichee, minerally, tiny gas beads fresh

Muscadet wine label Muscadet — Marc Ollivier et Rémi Branger - EARL La Pépière — Cuvée 3

9 € — 2009 — great purity - a modest nose - minerally, lime blossom, fresh

Alsace wine label Alsace — Audrey et Christian Binner — Ça gazouille [lieu-dit : Katzenthal] — Riesling (sec)

12 € — 2010 — very aromatic - a lively nose - a huge aromatic intensity, orange, nougat, dense but not oily, wide with tidy gas beads, almost dry: with just a hint of residual sugar, fresh

Crémant d’alsace — Les Binner (négoce) — Triple Zéro

12 € — 2009 —

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