La Pepiere, Muscadet Sevre et Maine, Sur Lie La Pepie

Slightly a riper year, but still good overall.

2022 vintage

Lively and fresh on the palate. Salty minerality. Outstanding.

2022 vintage

Tasted over 2 hrs -translucent pale yellow grey -gentle lees-y sweet white floral faintly tropical -med acidity slight spritz, med- weight sweet somewhat tropical faint bitter note on finish -ripe version of this but still get the underlying muscadet essence

2022 vintage

Crisp acidity, citrus, floral.

2022 vintage

Beau melon de Bourgogne ici! Bien frais et ciselé. Belle matière. Des melons, du pamplemousse et des fleurs. Belle longueur et minéralité. EXCELLENT!

2022 vintage

Quite ripe for a Muscadet with slightly tropical fruit and overt sweetness instead of the usual stony green fruit. Simple and no fuss but agree that the sur lie is a better wine, this had a slightly herbal, bitter note as mentioned in previous notes.

2022 vintage

There's a definite class to Les Briords. It has the trademark Muscadet crispness but every year there's something very distinguished about it. 2022 was a hot year and it shows - there's a bit of flabbiness midpalate, a bit of richness, but not so much that it actually detracts from the pleasure and the lemon and lime notes still dominate. Not my favourite vintage but still a good job done. Not sure if there's any point in trying to age …

2022 vintage

I wasn’t happy with the first bottle of this a couple months ago, but I saw a note today that suggested letting it decant for several hours to get it to open up. That was good advice. It has a lovely, brilliant light gold color. The nose is very subtle with just a bit of toast and white orchard fruits. A very crisp acidity gives it a bit of citrus character. Light body. Very nice.

2022 vintage

Now 4h after opening. Lovely aromas of tarte Granny Smith apples, minerals, seashells, iodine, seaweed. Palate with seaweed, iodine, tart apples, minerals. Beautiful balance with all the elements. Almost seemingly hitting the palate simultaneously. Excellent depth with excellent acids. Light-bodied. Short finish which is really the only issue with this wine. Given the past tastings I've had of this wine, I do wonder if this might be shutting down now given the short finish. But otherwise this is lovely. Fantastic …

2022 vintage

Very light color in the glass. Tight nose. I get some wet stone. Citrus start and pleasant mid-palate. The finish is a bit medicinal. Even paired with food, the screechy finish is a bit off-putting. The QPR isn’t there. The Sevre Et Maine Sur Lie from the same producer is a much better drinking experience, and it’s $16 CAD less.

2022 vintage

More than 60 years old vines, natural farming, fermented with indigenous yeasts, 7 months "sur lie", 11.5% vol., DIAM5 closure. PnP. Starts very shy and needs a bit time in the glass to open. On the nose it shows apple, pear and a suggestion of white stone fruit. On the palate it is dry with good minerality but missing the depth and the freshness of the 2021 vintage we had a year ago. Not bad at all but looking at …

2022 vintage

Inarguably muscadet from start to the grippy back of palate bitter finishing note. Need to go back to this again. Consumed during a get together with lots of wine. Went great with hummus and chips we had as one of our starters. More later maybe. Always a decent qpr wine region, I still think I expected a little more from the cru designation and producer on this one and price around $26, which is not inexpensive for the region. Still …

2022 vintage

Zesty/citrusy; light but with a zip.

2022 vintage

Lemon but not too zesty. Not too bright. Slight Vanilla. Maybe slight plum? Really yummy unique taste. Had at: Sag Harbor Tavern w Trout Jess + L

2022 vintage

Also always fantastic. Wonderful creamy texture on the palate.

2022 vintage

Very good as always, and again, not quite the quality of a leaner vintage, but still very, very good.

2022 vintage

Great with Oysters, excellent QPR

2022 vintage

No contemporaneous notes. PnP. My second of 5 bottles. Much lighter and displaying less complexity than I had hoped for. This was enjoyed by members of my tasting/dinner group, accompanying fish. (87-89).

2022 vintage

Showing lots of complexity this time. Even floral when first opened. The energy powered by that expression propels this beyond the normal pure mineral show. Glad I accidentally went long this vintage.

2022 vintage

Delicious, in a Muscadet kind of way. Light, bright, refreshing. Nice with a salad, seafood, summery dishes or chilling on the deck on a hot day.

2022 vintage

No contemporaneous notes. Crisp and concentrated, but not showing much flavor wise. The 2019 I had last winter, with one of my guests on this occasion, was more expressive. I hope that my remaining 4 bottles of this (the '22) are better. If I were scoring this, it would be in the mid to high 80s.

2022 vintage

Enjoyed on a hot day, nice aroma and acidity to go with cheese

2022 vintage

The overripe casaba melon and overripe peach might have even redeemed melony oysters, the cantaloupe of oysters, though perhaps there's all sorts of nuances for oyster connoisseurs to explore in melony oysters that I need blared into my face with briny oysters, but I guess I'll never know since I drank it with the fishes, with which it was fine Jeez, I made this sound like a dessert bomb; canned conference pears and pepper allow you to drink more than …

2022 vintage

To me this is a good but not great vintage of Briords. I tend to prefer this wine (and all Muscadet) in the leaner, steelier vintages. 2022 was not that. Regardless, it avoids the excesses of 2015 and 2018 at least. It's a very good wine, just not a great Briords, IMO.

2022 vintage

Another excellent vintage for this wine. There's just enough fruit richness to really couch the acidity perfectly. Then all the usual massive minerality to back up the lemon infused quince. Huge freshness and a chalky like grip. One of those tough to put down glasses. Amazing to still be able to get this under $25 given all the inflation on wine.

2022 vintage

shockingly dark, just baby asprin and oyster shells. probably not in the best of shape

2022 vintage

Lemon lime stones. Really nice balance. Don’t over think this…

2022 vintage

Green apple, lemon, some minerality on the core but not nearly as much as I remember from previous vintages. Finish is on acidity but not nearly as long as I remember either. Might be wine changing, might be one of those wines where my expectations are out in front of reality. At <$20 it's still a great wine to put up against a couple dozen oysters.

2022 vintage

meaty and oily fresh muscadet here; clad in nougat puff (ferment); determined to launch sea-salt stems of samphire and brittle mint. Praline lime and apple. I expect this can accomplish more with some cellar patience.

2022 vintage

There's ever still a little yeast and grape sugar flavor here. Insurgent bitterness to finish is all true to type—it's appetizing. Less granite (drama, severity) and more gneiss (pleasant floral gloss) means chill the bottle <50°F. Fruit is on the mature side, sticky peach mixes with green apple, cotton, saline, and conference pear.

2022 vintage

Another year, another great Briords full of green apple and citrus and sea spray.

2022 vintage

This is really lovely, balanced, and subtle. I wonder if we had it too young. Saline and just a touch of mineral fizz. Else, pear and slight lime rind.

2022 vintage

Fantastic QPR. Packed full with focused citrus fruit, pear, saline, and river rocks. Superb balance. Bone dry but with decent sweetness from the fruit. Just lovely now but I suspect this will age nicely over a 10 year period if you can keep your fingers off it.

2022 vintage

Note to self. Buy more. Super accessible immediately. Not incredibly expressive but wow for the price. Plain simple this is a winner. Can’t give specifics notes cause I was semi intoxicated

2022 vintage

A cool and crisp wine, with apple, pear and lemon fruits. The palate is compact and tight and there finish oozes saline minerality. Far too young from Magnum, but so delicious and refreshing.

2022 vintage

Popped and poured. DIAM cork. Complex aroma includes lemon, flowers, pear. Rich flavors of peach, pear, minerals. Pear dominates the finish. Robust, rich, firm backbone, complex. Hard to believe this is the base wine from Domaine de la Pepiere, I can't wait check out the next level. Outstanding QPR.

2022 vintage

Damn, sea spray! I have come to the conclusion now that these are better young and aging them is neglible.

2022 vintage

A great Briords vintage, one of the most appealing in recent memory on release.

2022 vintage

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