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The February 2017 Distinguished Cellar Auction
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94+JG
"As I noted a year ago, the 2011s were the first wines I had ever tasted from Domaine de lâĂcu, and as strong as those wines were in the context of the vintage of 2011, the 2012s are a dramatic step up and show the true quality of these wines in a top flight vintage! The 2012 Gneiss bottling, which hails from micro-schist soils, spends fully fifteen months aging on its fine lees prior to bottling, and the wine is stunning in this vintage. The vibrant and very complex nose soars from the glass in an electric mĂŠlange of green apple, orange peel, salty air, white flowers, gentle and very refined leesiness, a touch of straw and a bit of upper register smokiness. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and very soil-driven in personality, with a great core of fruit, laser-like focus and great cut and grip on the vibrant and dancing finish. Brilliant Muscadet!"
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"As I noted a year ago, the 2011s were the first wines I had ever tasted from Domaine de lâĂcu, and as strong as those wines were in the context of the vintage of 2011, the 2012s are a dramatic step up and show the true quality of these wines in a top flight vintage! The 2012 Gneiss bottling, which hails from micro-schist soils, spends fully fifteen months aging on its fine lees prior to bottling, and the wine is stunning in this vintage. The vibrant and very complex nose soars from the glass in an electric mĂŠlange of green apple, orange peel, salty air, white flowers, gentle and very refined leesiness, a touch of straw and a bit of upper register smokiness. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and very soil-driven in personality, with a great core of fruit, laser-like focus and great cut and grip on the vibrant and dancing finish. Brilliant Muscadet!"
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