One day, when I grow up and start acting responsibly, I’m going to remember to decant young Pepiere.
2015 Domaine de la Pépière (Marc Ollivier) Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine Chateau Thébaud- France, Loire Valley, Pays Nantais, Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine (6/10/2020)
This wine was kicking ass after about 2 hours of being open, and while I was on my last glass. Loaded with high-toned, citrus-laced acidity at first. Very tight, lots of minerality. The Saline streak is like a laser. Almost silky with air. So freaking good with Island Creek oysters. A gem of a wine that will be fun to follow for years to come.
Thanks. I keep looking at these and waiting. I should have bought more and am afraid that if I open one they will all be gone before the end of summer.
Always buy more! Advice I should follow. For $20 you can’t go wrong. Good now, good later. Compelling wines. I need to leave some for a long while, but it just never seems to happen.
Homemade crab cakes forced me to open this tonight. Very good and a wonderful match but should have decanted. Hopefully, I can keep my hands off my remaining bottles.
I tried to tell ya Glad you enjoyed it. Sounds like a good match with crab cakes. I am opening the 2017 Pépière Les Gras Moutons with a shrimp boil at the beach tonight.
Nice note in the opening post and while I fully agree that you can’t go wrong for $20, I think that you can do better in choosing to go with the 2014 (which is still widely available) over the 2015.
Totally forgot about this domaine I was dying to try as I like the razor-sharp mineral driven whites from the Loire. Just send out an email to a merchant with an order for Briords '16 and Thebaud '12 at very attractive pricepoints. Awesome these older vintages are still available.
Drank the Thebaut '12 yesterday evening. What a briljant wine! Has everything I love in whites. Racing acidity, layered complexity and a good dose of minerality. Age does not wear this wine down, tertiary flavours pop up and make it more exiting, waxy/gluey notes almost like riesling, hay supported by the everlasting acidity. Think these wines a gems, especially at this price point. Can be kept for some more years I guess.
The briords was also good bu a bit less intense, thirst quenching, good salinity and almost like drinking oyster water
I missed this thread the first time around, apparently …
nice note, Dennis. I liked this wine about as much as you did (assuming we score wines similarly), but I actually prefer the Briords. The Thebaud struck me as being on the softer side of Muscadet, whereas the Briords (particularly from '15) is like a rapier.
Any thoughts on the Briord 17? I bought some based on early comments, haven’t touched them yet, but the more recent Cellartracker notes, while positive, seem to imply that its from a “riper” vintage than normal and not quite it’s normally electric self.
I find that interesting Brian, as I really didn’t like the '15 Briords, finding it too soft and round. Of course, at the time I was coming off the '14, which I loved and found to have much more acidity.