uesday was fish tacos but no wine as I was meeting a volunteer group in city. Wednesday was gorgeous- by concert time it was upper 70s with low humidity and a light breeze. Betsy had made a soba salad wirh greens, cukes, and peanuts, while I made cold mussels and a caprese rift (pesto for basil); we also had smoked duck and watermelon. As we sat on grass with friends we also tried some salmon tartare, beef carpaccio, and a tomato/preserved lemon salad. Guess what, there was wine too!

2012 Pepiere "Clisson" Muscadet
Full and rich for Muscadet as you'd expect, but still with a good tension and some rocky/oystershell notes underneath. Very nice length, delicious. A-/B+

2014 Edmunds St John "Bone Jolly" rose
I liked this a lot, it seemed to have more vigor and vim than first bottle I tried. Fresh, lively, red-fruited, versatile. B++

2010 Clos Marie Pic Ste Loup
GSM blend. Mid-bodied, dark fruit and underbrush, tangy, B

2012 Haut Bourg Muscadet Cotes de Grandlieu
Crisp, saline minerality, seashells. B+/B

2009 Mikulski Bourgogne Blanc
Fat, tropical, blowsy, showing some oxidative notes. C/C+

Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C drinkable. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice.Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 4:16:40 PM UTC-4, DaleW wrote:
> uesday was fish tacos but no wine as I was meeting a volunteer group in city. Wednesday was gorgeous- by concert time it was upper 70s with low humidity and a light breeze. Betsy had made a soba salad wirh greens, cukes, and peanuts, while I made cold mussels and a caprese rift (pesto for basil); we also had smoked duck and watermelon. As we sat on grass with friends we also tried some salmon tartare, beef carpaccio, and a tomato/preserved lemon salad. Guess what, there was wine too!
>
> 2012 Pepiere "Clisson" Muscadet
> Full and rich for Muscadet as you'd expect, but still with a good tension and some rocky/oystershell notes underneath. Very nice length, delicious. A-/B+
>
> 2014 Edmunds St John "Bone Jolly" rose
> I liked this a lot, it seemed to have more vigor and vim than first bottle I tried. Fresh, lively, red-fruited, versatile. B++
>
> 2010 Clos Marie Pic Ste Loup
> GSM blend. Mid-bodied, dark fruit and underbrush, tangy, B
>
> 2012 Haut Bourg Muscadet Cotes de Grandlieu
> Crisp, saline minerality, seashells. B+/B
>
> 2009 Mikulski Bourgogne Blanc
> Fat, tropical, blowsy, showing some oxidative notes. C/C+
>
> Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C drinkable. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice.Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

Too bad about the Mikulski. I had a 2009 Mikulski Meursault recently that was pretty good but it also was a bit fat. Steve Edmund's wines always are a pleasure to drink.

DaleW wrote:

> 2012 Haut Bourg Muscadet Cotes de Grandlieu
> Crisp, saline minerality, seashells. B+/B

Coincidentally, I just had a glass of this last night on a date night
when Andrew was at a sleepover. I was so excited to see any Muscadet
available locally that I willingly took the plunge on a relatively
unknown producer. I don't know the year on mine since it was a BTG
offering, but mine was a less impressive experience. While it had the
acidity and a saline quality to it, it lacked any sense of fruit or
minerality. I know that, after years of consuming the Muscadets of Marc
Ollivier, Pierre Luneau and Jo Landron that I have a ridiculously high
bar set for Melon de Bourgogne wines, but still... Anyway, it beat the
other offerings at this place by a longshot, so that was a win.

Mark Lipton