Domaine de la Désoucherie Cour-Cheverny Cuvée Christian Tessier

Loire Odyssey, Part I - the Non-Chenin Whites (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon) : My first Romorantin. A really unusual wine this. Pretty good, but like nothing I have tasted before - we actually thought this might be a very old Muscadet. The deep orange-amber colour of the wine certainly suggested that it was far older than 2004. Its nose showed a pleasant mix of orange blossoms, molasses, oyster shell, dried fruit zest, lots of honey, and some floaty …