There’s life in these old bones, yet!

You can’t beat an aged Muscadet of baffling the hell out of even the most seasoned wine wankers! A Chrissy break-up options games turned up a fourteen year Muscadet (Sevre et Main ‘Sur Lie’) that had tasters scratching their pates in confused smugness: this bottle was strikingly fresh with real physique - a touch of brine & dough on the nose and a mineral-driven character that lingers in the mouth and provides a framework for a background of sweet grapefruits. So well preserved (a ripe vintage (?) to provide requisite fruit to age alongside the towering acidity), we were not even close to the vintage despite getting close to the stylistic source.

Its bloody brilliant and another vinous revelation. Im going to try and source some from the domain and perhaps cellar some cases of the 2007 for a museam (another ripe vintage) from the same producer for this was none other than a 1995 Chateau du Cleray.