TN: 2015 Domaine de la Pépière (Marc Ollivier) Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine Chateau Thébaud

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.

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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.

Love this wine.

Yeah buddy [cheers.gif] [cheers.gif]

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.

This wine is a real bruiser.

I tried to tell ya [cheers.gif] 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.

We enjoyed another bottle of the 2010 Thebaud two weeks back. So good and still young. I have one more and I’ll let it ride for a while yet.

This has been my favorite white of the summer. Hoping my local shop gets another case.

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.

Thanks for the reminder :slight_smile:

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 :wink:

Nice! Thanks for the bump and checking in on the 2012. Certainly a high level of value in Pepiere, and still somehow feel under-the-radar. Cheers.

Sounds good! I have to find some of the Thébaud.

I opened another 2014 Briords last week and it still going strong, actually better and more rounded in Day 2.

The '14 version of this is absolutely killer. I’ve had three bottles this summer and can’t seem to keep my hands off them.

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 haven’t found that to be the case with the 17. While not quite up to the level of the 14, to me it seems closer to that than say, the 15 or 18.

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.