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| Jousset “Rose à Lies” Pét-nat Vin de France 2024 PULPE F!#/?@N Muscadet Sèvre et Maine sur lie 2023 David “Couple Goals” Vin de France 2024 Taddei “Maison Jaune” Savennières 2023 David “Hurluberlu” St Nicolas de Bourgueil 2023 |
| Please join us on Wednesday to welcome the delightful Phaedon Papadopoulos back for another tasting of delights from the T. Edwards import portfolio that he represents. For this tasting, we selected wines from France’s Loire Valley: friends, both old and new. If you’re a habitual customer at the shop, you’ve likely noticed that we are Loire obsessed, and personally, I feel a bit of agita when we fail to stock, by my lights, a sufficient selection of wines from the region. If I’m not careful, we’re apt to become a Loire specialist, which is probably not the best strategy for a neighborhood wine shop, as running such a place should not merely be an exercise in assuaging one’s own narcissism. Our job is the pleasure business, after all, but the Loire is, to me at least, a treasure of pleasure. Why? Well, to quote Warren Oates in Sam Peckinpah’s “Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,” because it feels so goddamn good. I’m hard-pressed to think of another region in France, and elsewhere, that displays such a wide gamut of wines, and in which hardworking vigneron consistently deliver and over-deliver wines of profound satisfaction, often with price tags that are not extortionate. Do you want wines that are beyond the valley of the ultra-mineral? Muscadet. On the other hand, are you craving luscious, yet acid-driven sweet wines that rival Sauternes? Coteaux de Layon. Do you want savory, earthy reds that range from the lean to the downright slutty? Saumur Champigny. I could go on and on, but you’ll need to visit us in person to hear the rest of the story.
We’re starting with a crisp, zero-sugar, rosé pét-nat from the Joussets, gamay and grolleau, and a perfect evening antidote to the seemingly endless muzzy miasma of our heatwave. Next, an exemplary example of the stony, mineral Muscadet mentioned above. Then, two very different chenin-based wines; one, from Savennières, part of the historic homeland for this grape variety, grown on lysergic purple and blue schist of volcanic origins; the other a non-douchey orange wine, made from a blend of chenin and chardonnay. To finish, a light-bodied, low-tannin, carbonic macerated cabernet franc. |