Variety: Melon de Bourgogne
Country of origin: France
Wine appellation: Loire Valley
Wine appellation: Loire Valley
Alcohol content: 12.0%
Color: medium yellow
Bouquet: minerality, quite neutral, bread and yest tones
Color: medium yellow
Bouquet: minerality, quite neutral, bread and yest tones
Taste: medium body, very dry, with almost no acidity, minerality like licking a stone with bready tones, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: fish, seafood
Recommended food pairing: fish, seafood
Overall score: 85
Price: ?? gift on web CZK 250
Stopper: cork
Very nice mineral and neutral style of wine. I really like the yeasty and mineral character in it.
Muscadet (mus-ka-DAY) is a region in the western part of the Loire valley, near the city of Nantes. White wines from Muscadet are made from the Melon de Bourgogne grape. They tend to be light in color and body, and are intensely mineral driven. They are thought to be a perfect complement to raw oysters from the nearby coast. Muscadets are gleefully paired, though, with any fresh shellfish or other seafood.
There are a couple of appellations in Muscadet, the best of which is considered to be Muscadet de Sevre et Maine. And the best bottles from that appellation are aged sur-lie, or on the lees, the musty mix of yeasts and other post-fermentation solids. This aging provides flavor complexity that can be missing in other bottles.
There are a couple of appellations in Muscadet, the best of which is considered to be Muscadet de Sevre et Maine. And the best bottles from that appellation are aged sur-lie, or on the lees, the musty mix of yeasts and other post-fermentation solids. This aging provides flavor complexity that can be missing in other bottles.
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