TN: 4 French wines and 1 US at an outdoor jazz concert

uesday was fish tacos but no wine as I was meeting a volunteer group in cit y. Wednesday was gorgeous- by concert time it was upper 70s with low humidi ty 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 al so 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 a nd 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 p arty where it was only choice.Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivi ty, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

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ity. Wednesday was gorgeous- by concert time it was upper 70s with low humi dity and a light breeze. Betsy had made a soba salad wirh greens, cukes, an d 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 lemo n salad. Guess what, there was wine too!

and some rocky/oystershell notes underneath. Very nice length, delicious. A-/B+

e I tried. Fresh, lively, red-fruited, versatile. B++

e, 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 objecti vity, 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.

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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

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