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

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.

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