Vibrant white wines tasted in 2020

The selected vibrant bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. Featured values include 3 Muscadets.

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2020 (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 France [44] — Jérémie Huchet — Chapeau melon blanc — [melon de Bourgogne, sauvignon blanc]

6 € — 2019 — nice and trouble-free: pleasant - very expressive, appetizing, flower, freshly cut hedge, orange zest, nougat - large, tight, salivates, lemony, orange zest, freshly cut hedge, mango, dry, neat, a little steep, fresh

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

8 € — 2019 — no problem - radiant - no velvety, radiant, no stiffness, fresh

Muscadet Sèvre et Maine sur lie — Rémi Branger, Gwénaëlle Croix - Domaine de la Pépière — Clos des Briords Vieilles vignes

10 € — 2019 — wait until one year old, crystalline, mineral, fresh but not stiff

muscadet wine label Muscadet — Marion Pescheux, Manuel Landron - Domaine Complemen’terre — La Croix Moriceau

10 € — 2018 — fullness and purity - white fruit - no velvety but full, lychee, nougat, tiny gas beads, no stiffness, fresh

Muscadet — Marion Pescheux, Manuel Landron - Domaine Complemen’terre — Ker Ma

11 € — 2018 — pure - smoked, nougat - velvety, nougat, tiny gas beads, fresh

IGP Franche Comté — Pascal Henriot — Coteaux de Champlitte — Chardonnay

12 € — 2019 — not particularly intense - grapefruit, toffee - not onctuous but full, grapefruit, toffee, smoky, drying but fresh

Vin de France [Languedoc] — Aymeric & Jordan Amiel - Domaine des Amiel — Premier rolle — Rolle (vermentino)

12 € — 2018 — opens with air therefore you may decant, pure - white fruit, indistinct - much more alcohol than oiliness (which is varietal), white fruit, powerful, broad, fresh

vin-de-pays [Cheverny, Loire] wine label Vin de pays [Cheverny, Loire] — Hervé Villemade [négoce] — [raisins achetés] — Sauvignon blanc

12 € — 2019 — until October:freshly trimmed hedge - glycerin, full, vegetal, fresh — since December 2020: freshly trimmed hedge, weak - no velvety, a little stiff, fresh

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

14 € — 2018 —

Deutschland [Pfalz] wine label Deutschland [Pfalz] — Daniel & Jonas Brand - Weingut Brand — Wilder Satz — [Müller Thurgau 38%]

14 € — 2018 — a huge aromatic intensity, high purity - very intense, grapefruit, bitter, nougat - no smoothness, very intense, grapefruit, bitter, not full but busy, fresh

Muscadet Sèvre et Maine wine label Muscadet Sèvre et Maine — Marc Ollivier, Rémi Branger, Gwénaëlle Croix - EARL La Pépière — Château-Thébaud [roche-mère de granodiorite, issue du granite]

15 € — 2014 — sheashell, almond, star fruit, nougat - no smoothness and very intense, sheashell, almond, star fruit, nougat, fresh

Alsace riesling — Jean Pierre Rietsch - Domaine Rietsch — Brandluft

21 € — 2015 — aromatic, pure - hazelnut, nougat - velvety then fine, hazelnut, nougat, light, fresh

Crémant d’Alsace — Julien Albertus - Kumpf et Meyer — [élevé sur lattes entre 14 et 30 mois, non filtré, sans sulfite ajouté] — Brut (zéro dosage, millésimé)

15 € — 2017 — pure, intense - yeast, fine bubbles, fresh

Crémant d’alsace [sparkling] — Audrey et Christian Binner — KB — Extra Brut Zéro dosage [sans sulfite ajouté], magnum, assemblage

22 € — 2008 — white fruit, yeast - fine bubbles, full, white fruit, nougat but dry, toasted loaf, great aromatic depth, no stiffness, fresh

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