Vibrant white wines tasted in 2022

The selected vibrant bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. You may look up the availability of wines if you enter a location name in the search box at the top of the page.

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2022 (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]

7 € — 2021 — 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

Alsace — Jean Pierre Rietsch - Domaine Rietsch — Tout Blanc (au litre)

10 € — 2021 — rather discreet, with notes of warm apple, damp chalk and a hint of sea spray - round, ample, crisp with freshness, with a finely pulpy, delicious body, endowed with a slight astringency reminiscent of lemonade, giving this wine great drinkability. The finish is invigorating and concentrated, with a lovely combination of bitterness and astringency reminiscent of a Loire Chenin, combining quince and pomelo, with a lingering hint of bitter orange and saline notes

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

10 € — 2020 — fullness and purity - white fruit - no velvety but full, lychee, nougat, tiny gas beads, no stiffness, fresh

Muscadet — Jérémie Huchet — Chemin des Prières [roche-mère de gneiss et de granite]

11 € — 2020 — nougat - no smoothness, tiny gas beads, nougat, light, fresh, alcohol does not stay: does not heat up

Muscadet — Jérémie Huchet — Les Montys Le Parc

12 € — 2020 — very accessible and effective - white fruit - pure, with fine mineral notes on a citrus freshness and a few not unpleasant saline notes

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

14 € — 2020 — intense, nougat, raspberry, muscat - a huge aromatic intensity, raspberry, muscat, citrus, fresh

Muscadet — Marion Pescheux, Manuel Landron - Domaine Complemen’terre — Le Mortier Gobin

15 € — 2018 — great purity, great aromatic intensity - hazelnut, grapefruit - no velvety, hazelnut, grapefruit, tiny gas beads, fresh

Pfälzer Landwein [Palatinate], Wein aus Deutschland — Daniel & Jonas Brand - Weingut Brand — Wilder Satz — [Müller Thurgau 38%]

16 € — 2021 — very slightly sparkling, lively, fresh

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

15 € — 2019 — pure, intense - yeast, fine bubbles, fresh

Crémant d’Alsace [sparkling] wine label Crémant d’Alsace [sparkling] — Domaine Rietsch — Extra Brut

16 € — 2019 — yeast, toasted bread - baked apple, brioche, toasted almond, nougat, dry but not stiff, fresh

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