French white wine values tasted in 2006

The selected French bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. Featured values include Muscadet and other summer wines.

This page misses the tasting notes of the wines that are not imported into the USA. The complete page of french wine values can be found here.
 

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2006 (between April and December).
 

 Muscadet-de-sèvre-et-maine-sur-lie - Luneau Michel et Fils
2005 - USD 10 - pure - joyful, tiny gas beads, fresh
 

 Muscadet-de-sèvre-et-maine-sur-lie - Cormerais - Domaine de Mauperthuis - Domaine de Mauperthuis
2004 - USD 11 - our standard representative of the Muscadet production, apparent winemaking from run-of-the-mill grapes - faint lichee, a hint of scallop - velvety, with beads, faint lichee, a hint of scallop, more alcohol than fruit, refreshing, does not show the acidic stiffness of some Muscadets
 

 Muscadet-de-sèvre-et-maine-sur-lie - Girard - Le Fleuron de la Rebourgère
2005 - USD 12 - standard Muscadet - fresh
 

 Muscadet-de-sèvre-et-maine-sur-lie - Marc Ollivier - Domaine de la Pépière - Domaine de la Pépière
2005 - USD 13 - a superb match to raw oyster shells - an elegant nose of lime, litchi, and peach - velvety, light but very savory, apricot, redcurrant, brine, a vegetable note, no minerality, tiny gas beads, less structured than Brégeon, less lively yet crisp and fresh - less persistence

Where to purchase Ollivier wines
 

 Muscadet-de-sèvre-et-maine-sur-lie - A.Michel Brégeon
2005 - USD 13 - should benefit from ageing - peach, apple, chais, intense - onctuous, peach, dries the palate, fresh, more winey than Pépière - citrus zest

Where to purchase Bregeon wines
 

 Muscadet - Marc Ollivier - Domaine de la Pépière - Clos des Briords - Cuvée Vieilles Vignes
2005 - USD 15 - grapefruit, fresh - grapefruit, the liveliness is drying the mouth, crunchier than the the 2001 vintage tasted at age 2 - grapefruit

Where to purchase Ollivier wines
 

 Muscadet - Marc Ollivier - Domaine de la Pépière - Clos des Cormerais - Cuvée Vieilles Vignes - Vin élevé en fûts de chêne
2003 - USD 16 - a weak nose of frozen grapefruit - toffee, intense flavour but light body, fresh - bitter-orange (the balance of fruit and onctuosity is the same as in the 1999 bottling tasted at the same age, the oak treatment is as refined)

Where to purchase Ollivier wines
 

 Touraine - Clos Roche Blanche - n°2 - Sauvignon
2004 - USD 17 - onctuous, freshly cut hay, a hint of a little red fruit, fresh

Where to purchase Clos Roche Blanche wines
 

 Muscadet-de-sèvre-et-maine-sur-lie - A.Michel Brégeon
2001 - USD 17 - a very intense nose akin to a Chablis twice as old : with seashell and hazelnut - very slightly sweet, intense flavours of nectarine, litchi, apple, apricot, and citrus zest, fresh - peach skin

Where to purchase Bregeon wines
 

 Vouvray - François Pinon - Brut 'méthode traditionnelle' - [Chenin]
[2004] - USD 17 - does not show the toffee note of the 1996 version - subdued nose - peach, toasted loafbread, less wide than the Chidaine, drying (from acidity), fresh

Where to purchase Pinon wines
 

 Alsace - Schaeffer-Woerly - Riesling
2004 - USD 19 - well made, very enjoyable - nectarine, lichee, mango - aromatic with nectarine, lichee, mango, smokiness, almond, onctuous throughout while remaining fresh
 

 Vouvray - François Pinon - Sec - [Chenin]
2005 - USD 19 - very natural - citrus, minerally, a hinty of fresh herb - onctuous, very intense, pear, nectarine, wide, minerally, fresh, very pure, more drying than the 2000

Where to purchase Pinon wines
 

 Montlouis - François Chidaine - Méthode Traditionnelle - Brut non-millésimé
[2004] - USD 21 - small beads, velvety, nectarine, wide, fresh, toasted loafbread
 

 Vouvray - François Pinon - Tradition - [Chenin]
2005 - USD 21 - keep it in a remote corner of the cellar - ripe peach - onctuous, peach, sweet, fresh

Where to purchase Pinon wines
 
 

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