Vibrant white tasted in 2025

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 2025 (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]

8 € — 2024 — 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)

12 € — 2024 — pure, intense – white fruit – not velvety, nougat, aromatic, astringent, a little stiff, lively

Muscadet — Marion Pescheux, Manuel Landron – Domaine Complémen’terre — La Croix Moriceau

13 € — 2023 — 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 granodiorite — issue du granite]

12 € — Non vintage — nougat – pas d’onctuosité, perlant, nougat, léger, frais, l’alcool ne reste pas : ne chauffe pas

Muscadet — Jérémie Huchet — Les Montys Le Parc

15 € — 2023 — illuminating, hazelnut, black locust flower – not velvety, hazelnut, tiny gas beads, a bit stiff, fresh

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

17 € — 2023 — intense, nougat, raspberry, muscat – a huge aromatic intensity, raspberry, muscat, citrus, fresh

Muscadet — Marion Pescheux, Manuel Landron – Domaine Complémen’terre — Le Mortier Gobin

19 € — 2021 — 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%]

20 € — 2024 —

Prosecco — Alberto Torresi

8 € — Non vintage — small pressure - weak nose, flower - velvety, mellow (but not sweet), small white fruit, lively but not stiff, no apparent defects - no aftertaste

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

18 € — 2022 — pure, intense – yeast, fine bubbles, fresh

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

22 € — 2021 — yeast, toasted bread – baked apple, brioche, toasted almond, nougat, dry but not stiff, fresh

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