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Vibrant white wines tasted in 2016

The selected vibrant bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. Featured values include 3 sparkling wines, 6 Muscadets, 3 Chardonnays (two from Burgundy).

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2016 (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 wine labelMuscadet — Marc Ollivier, Rémi Branger, Gwénaëlle Croix - EARL La Pépière — Domaine de la Pépière

6 € — 2015 — litchee - glittering, tense but not stiff

Saint chinian — Domaine Rimbert — L’Agathe — (clairette, roussanne, rolle, grenache blanc)

7.3 € — 2015 — little aromas - oily, large, fresh

Muscadet — Jo Landron - Domaine de la Louvetrie — Clos de la Carizière

7.5 € — 2014 — much ripeness and iodine - lichee - lichee, grapefruit, very pure but less intense than Briords, full, salt, no stiffness, fresh

savoie wine labelSavoie — Domaine Giachino — Monfarina

7.7 € — 2014 —

Muscadet Sèvre et Maine wine labelMuscadet Sèvre et Maine — Vincent Caillé - Domaine Le Fay d’Homme — Fief des Coteaux (gabbro)

7.9 € — 2014 — lichee - lichee, grapefruit, almond, less intense than Pépière but denser, fresh - long, almond

Muscadet — Jo Landron - Domaine de la Louvetrie — Amphibolite (nature)

9 € — 2015 —

Muscadet wine labelMuscadet — Marc Ollivier, Rémi Branger, Gwénaëlle Croix - EARL La Pépière — Clos des Briords — Magnum

9 € — 2015 — white fruits, lichee, clementine - no creaminess, lichee, lemon peel, clementine, pure, minerally, a hint of salt, no stiffness, fresh / Beware to only buy magnums : 25% of the 75cl bottles are corked.

Vouvray wine labelVouvray — François Pinon — Sec — (chenin)

9 € — 2014 —

Alsace — Vincent Stoeffler — Senteurs fruitées [Muscat dominant] — Nature [pas de SO2]

9.2 € — 2014 —

Apremont — Domaine Giachino — Primitif — (jacquère)

9.3 € — 2015 —

Alsace — Vincent Stoeffler — Nature [pas de SO2] — Riesling

9.6 € — 2012 —

Cheverny [Loire] wine labelCheverny [Loire] — Hervé Villemade - Domaine du Moulin

10 € — 2015 —

Vouvray — François Pinon — Magnum millésimé Brut — (chenin)

10 € — 2005 —

Muscadet — Guy Bossard, Frédéric Niger Van Herck - Domaine de l’Ecu — Granite

10 € — 2014 —

Muscadet wine labelMuscadet — Marc Ollivier, Rémi Branger, Gwénaëlle Croix - EARL La Pépière — Château-Thébaud

12 € — 2012 —

Crémant d’Alsace wine labelCrémant d’Alsace — Domaine Rietsch — Extra Brut Nature

13 € — 2013 —

Crémant d’alsace — Stéphane Bannwarth - Les vins Pirouettes (par Binner & Compagnie) — Zéro dosage

15 € — 2013 —

Bourgogne blanc — [Alice et Olivier de Moor, négoce] - Le vendangeur masqué — (chardonnay)

18 € — 2014 — very pure, honeysuckle, pink grapefruit then nougat - wide, dry, fresh

Chablis — Alice et Olivier De Moor — Bel Air et Clardy — (chardonnay)

21 € — 2014 — pink grapefruit - velvety, radiant, pink grapefruit, peach, red currant, silky, fresh

Côtes du jura — Domaine Labet — Les Champs Rouges — Chardonnay ’nature’

23 € — 2014 — intense, yellow fruit, passion fruit, toffee - oily but very precise, passion fruit, toffee, red currant, fresh

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