French white wine values tasted in 2007

The selected French bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. Featured values include Muscadets.
 

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2007 (between April and December).
 

 Gros plant - A.Michel Brégeon

2005 - USD 8.9 - you would not dream of Gros Plant being so bright and pure! - redcurrant, pear - no unctuosity, very intense, redcurrant, small white fruit, minerally, pure, dries the gums and the palates, savory, light, snappy without any stiffness - redcurrant, small white fruit - this one is similar to the Gros Plant 2002 tasted at the same age

 Muscadet de sèvre et maine sur lie - A.Michel Brégeon

2006 - USD 10 - aromatic intensity, lichee - aromatic intensity, light, tiny gas beads, less flavour than Luneau-Papin 2005, freshness

 Muscadet de sèvre et maine sur lie - A.Michel Brégeon

2005 - USD 11 - more settled than the same vintage tasted one year earlier, will improve with every passing year - aromas of peach and citrus zest - onctuous, wider than the Luneau-Papin 2005 and the Brégeon 2006, less aromas than the Luneau-Papin 2005, peach, pear, no beads, fresh

 Muscadet - Marc Ollivier - Domaine de la Pépière - Clos des Briords - Cuvée Vieilles Vignes

2005 - USD 13 - this wine will only get better, clean as the Briords 2001 tasted at the same age - pear and seashell on the nose - pear, fresh, shows more structure than Cormerais 2003, is not drying as was the same Briords 2005 tasted one year earlier

 Muscadet - Marc Ollivier - Domaine de la Pépière - Clos des Cormerais - Cuvée Vieilles Vignes - Vin élevé en fûts de chêne

2003 - USD 13 - this wine is very fine but should benefit from ageing - fruit, delicate toffee - fruit, delicate toffee, fuller than the Briords 2005, a minerally thread, fresh - hasn't really changed from one summer to the next

 Côtes de provence - Domaine Turenne - Cuvée Antoine - [50% rolle, 50% petite clairette du var]

2006 - USD 13 - akin to the Domaine Gavoty Cuvée Clarendon 2001 aged two or the Château de Pourcieux 2001 aged two, two Rolle varietals - the aromas are of flower and fresh almond - velvety, flower, fresh almond, a vegetable note (due to the incomplete maturity of certain grapes), starfruit, fresh, less alcohol than the two Rolle varietals

 Pacherenc du vic bilh - Denis Capmartin - Château Barréjat - Moelleux

2005 - USD 13 - onctuous from alcohol and residual sugar, dried apricot, lichee, fresh

 Muscadet de sèvre et maine sur lie - A.Michel Brégeon

2001 - USD 14 - intense aromas of pear, peach, seashell and citrus zest - no gas beads, vinous, peach, pear, hazelnut, intense, fresh - compare this wine with the same bottling tasted at age two and at age five

 Cheverny - Hervé Villemade - Domaine du Moulin - [60% sauvignon-blanc, 40% chardonnay]

2005 - USD 14 - apricot dominates the intense aromas which differ strongly from those of the Domaine du Moulin 2004 - more onctuous than the 2004 vintage, intense, apricot, almond, toffee, fresh

 Vouvray - François Pinon - Brut 'méthode traditionnelle' - [chenin]

[2004] - USD 14 - modest nose - small gas beads, toasted loaf bread, dry but wide, as snappy as a Champagne

 Muscadet de sèvre et maine sur lie - Luneau-Papin - Les Pierres blanches

2005 - USD 16 - drink it often - the nose shows much typical fruit, with citrus - the palate does not show the velvety texture of the Brégeon 2006, aromas are more intense than in the Brégeon 2005, tiny gas beads, light, refreshing

 Vouvray - François Pinon - Sec - [chenin]

2005 - USD 16 - a white fruit dominates the nose - aromatic intensity, pear, wide, dry, minerally, fresh

 Chablis - Gilbert Picq & ses Fils - [chardonnay]

2005 - USD 17 - a delicate wine - aromas of fresh green almond - onctuous, glycerol coats the palate, intense fresh green almond, citrus, a note of scallop, fresh, hollow

 Ladoix - Robert et Raymond Jacob - [chardonnay]

2005 - USD 19 - a smoked character dominates the grapefruit - the mouth is powerful, a smoked character dominates the grapefruit, fresh

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