Enjoy summertime with Muscadet
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 12:15 am
Sunny days and some heat is now installed up north. I'm sitting outside, in that nice evening comfortable weather, enjoying every minute i can as I snow will be there in less than 5 mouths.
Tonight, MC cooked some very nice sea scallops, one of our favorite seafood, with a creamy lemon sauce, and a basilik oil to put on top. Delicious! I should have taken a picture, and post it here so everyone could have look the meal upside down!
With that, I opened a basic Muscadet from the Lieubeau family in Loire, owners of Chateau Thiebaud. It is a fresh young 2016, with a specific label related to Jules Vernes stories, as he was born in that area. Light yellow color, Muscadet is a bit like Sauternes, not well known. Also like Beaujolais, snob people avoid it. But Muscadet is a genuine uncomplicated white wine, most of the time rewarding, and that can age gracefully for 7-10 years. Nose of fresh green berry grape, starfruit, melon and green lemon. In mouth, very dry, mineral, but still having fresh herbs and green melon flavours, light bitterness, long shell mineral finish. Very nice. Of course, limited at the same time, but I guess that wines from melon de bourgogne need to stay that way to shine. I will buy more as I prefer that type of wine to any (more complex?) oaky heavy low acidity white wines. Tn: 87.
Clearly, I will always prefer the white wines produced at that lattitude (Muscadet, Saumur, Pouilly-Fumé, Sancerre, Chablis, Alsace Riesling) and unoaked. And my taste on red changes sometime, but for white, it stayed the same for the last 22 years.
Any other Muscadet lovers around here?
Nic
Tonight, MC cooked some very nice sea scallops, one of our favorite seafood, with a creamy lemon sauce, and a basilik oil to put on top. Delicious! I should have taken a picture, and post it here so everyone could have look the meal upside down!
With that, I opened a basic Muscadet from the Lieubeau family in Loire, owners of Chateau Thiebaud. It is a fresh young 2016, with a specific label related to Jules Vernes stories, as he was born in that area. Light yellow color, Muscadet is a bit like Sauternes, not well known. Also like Beaujolais, snob people avoid it. But Muscadet is a genuine uncomplicated white wine, most of the time rewarding, and that can age gracefully for 7-10 years. Nose of fresh green berry grape, starfruit, melon and green lemon. In mouth, very dry, mineral, but still having fresh herbs and green melon flavours, light bitterness, long shell mineral finish. Very nice. Of course, limited at the same time, but I guess that wines from melon de bourgogne need to stay that way to shine. I will buy more as I prefer that type of wine to any (more complex?) oaky heavy low acidity white wines. Tn: 87.
Clearly, I will always prefer the white wines produced at that lattitude (Muscadet, Saumur, Pouilly-Fumé, Sancerre, Chablis, Alsace Riesling) and unoaked. And my taste on red changes sometime, but for white, it stayed the same for the last 22 years.
Any other Muscadet lovers around here?
Nic