La Grange aux Belles "Fragile" 2008 (Anjou) (13,00 euros in shop): honey, wax, very dry in the mouth with interesting sour notes. Initially a bit metallic in the aftertaste but it cleaned up with honey. 89.
Domaine Huet "Clos du Bourg" Sec 2007 (Vouvray) (14,00 euros in the boutique at the domaine): great intensity, pierre de fusil, lots of minerality. A great wine and very happy to have a case. 94.
François Chidaine "Les Choisilles" 2004 (Montlouis) (15,00 euros in shop): rounder that the Huet (three years younger also), with very good balance, but perhaps a little les character. 93.
Clos de la Royauté 2007 (Savennières) (10,00 euros in the shop at the domaine): a bit reduced initially, I thought it was a good wine in the Savennières style, with that austerity that you usually find in young Savennières. 89-90.
La Tour Grise 2007 (Saumur) (12,40 euros in shop): very intense in the nose, and very serious in the mouth, with a vertical dimension around a wild acidity. I liked it more than others. 91.
Lenoir Les Roches 2004 (Chinon) (19,90 euros in shop): Very-very reduced, with plenty of dirty notes and not showing for more than 2 hours. Perhaps with 20 years, this ultra-traditional Chinon blanc would be a great wine, but certainly is not showing much now.
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