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Vibrant white wines tasted in 2015

The selected vibrant bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. Featured values include 2 Muscadet-de-sèvre-et-maine.

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2015 (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 de sèvre et maine sur lie — Frédéric Lailler - Domaine Michel Brégeon — L’Original

5 € — 2014 — classic

Muscadet wine labelMuscadet — Marc Ollivier, Rémi Branger, Gwénaëlle Croix - EARL La Pépière, Domaine de la Pépière — Domaine de la Pépière

6 € — 2014 — a good party wine, even better than the 2013 vintage - modest on the nose, with stones and flowers - intense but lean, tense but not stiff

Muscadet wine labelMuscadet — Marc Ollivier, Rémi Branger, Gwénaëlle Croix - EARL La Pépière, Domaine de la Pépière — Clos des Briords — Vieilles vignes

9 € — 2014 — white fruits, lichee, clementine - no creaminess, lichee, lemon peel, clementine, pure, minerally, a hint of salt, no stiffness, fresh

vin-de-pays wine labelVin de pays — Hervé Villemade - Domaine du Moulin — Sauvignon blanc

9.2 € — 2013 — true to the variety, intense - freshly cut hay, pear - freshly cut hay, flower, mellow, fresh

Vin de France — Grégory Guillaume — Lucky — Grenache blanc

10 € — 2014 —

Muscadet — Marc Ollivier, Rémi Branger, Gwénaëlle Croix - EARL La Pépière, Domaine de la Pépière — Clisson

10 € — 2012 — velvety, peach, fresh

Muscadet wine labelMuscadet — Marc Ollivier, Rémi Branger, Gwénaëlle Croix - EARL La Pépière, Domaine de la Pépière — Cuvée 3

12 € — 2009 — pure - a shy nose - velvety, linden, nougat, fresh

Côtes du jura — Domaine Labet — Bajocien [sol calcaire rouge, tendre] — Chardonnay

18 € — 2013 —

Vouvray — François Pinon — Les Déronnières

20 € — 2014 — white fruit, lemon - white fruit, lemon, crisp

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