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Wine of the week
By CHRIS SHERMAN
Published January 11, 2006
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Clos les Montys, Domaine de la Chauviniere, muscadet 2003, costs about $10 and is a good match for oysters.
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Clos les Montys, Domaine de la Chauviniere, muscadet 2003
Muscadet is one of the better-known wines of the little-known Loire Valley in France. It's usually flinty crisp and dry, inexpensive and perhaps the world's best match for oysters. That's handy because the home vineyards in Nantes are only a few miles from the Atlantic and its oyster beds.
The Chauviniere estate makes muscadet, but this one from the smaller Clos les Montys vineyard is special, very structured and a few bucks more. It shows that muscadet grapes can also have warm, winning charm: The color is golden, the weight is light but the flavor is full and smooth in the mouth, with an aroma of melons and a taste of pears with a dusting of cinnamon.
This muscadet can step up from the oyster bar and into the main dining room for shrimp or lobster.
Price: About $10.
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