Domaine de l'Ecu (Guy Bossard)
Expression d'Orthogneiss Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine Melon de Bourgogne
Sèvre-et-Maine, Pays Nantais, Loire Valley, France
L’Ecu makes some of the most interesting and unique Muscadets out there. This one is whistle clean and a bit riper and more aromatic than your average Muscadet due to the warmer vintage but it’s still totally fresh and bracing like you’d want from a good Muscadet.
- Color: medium (-) intensity straw gold with green tinges, day bright
- Nose: ripe green apple, just-ripe starfruit, wet stone and saline crushed oyster shell, iodine, yeasty leesiness, apple blossom and white florals, and a tiny bit of lanolin-y, Chenin-esque character that I’ll chalk up to the warmer vintage.
- Palate: just-ripe green apple and star fruit, apple blossom, wet stones and briny salinity, cheesy lees notes, chervil
- Acid: high
- RS: Bone dry
- Alcohol: moderate and unobtrusive
- Body: medium (-), oily round texture contributed by lees
L’Ecu makes some of the most interesting and unique Muscadets out there. This one is whistle clean and a bit riper and more aromatic than your average Muscadet due to the warmer vintage but it’s still totally fresh and bracing like you’d want from a good Muscadet.
- Color: medium (-) intensity straw gold with green tinges, day bright
- Nose: ripe green apple, just-ripe starfruit, wet stone and saline crushed oyster shell, iodine, yeasty leesiness, apple blossom and white florals, and a tiny bit of lanolin-y, Chenin-esque character that I’ll chalk up to the warmer vintage.
- Palate: just-ripe green apple and star fruit, apple blossom, wet stones and briny salinity, cheesy lees notes, chervil
- Acid: high
- RS: Bone dry
- Alcohol: moderate and unobtrusive
- Body: medium (-), oily round texture contributed by lees
Citrus blend with white & yellow florals on the nose. Touch creamy and waxy on the palate. Lemon/lime zest, grapefruit, underripe green melon close to the rhine, whiff of white peach, yellow & white florals, granite in the minerality with a round, nice finish.
Citrus blend with white & yellow florals on the nose. Touch creamy and waxy on the palate. Lemon/lime zest, grapefruit, underripe green melon close to the rhine, whiff of white peach, yellow & white florals, granite in the minerality with a round, nice finish.
1 person found it helpfulMar 11th, 2017
Rich and peachy up front, delightfully complex on the finish.
Rich and peachy up front, delightfully complex on the finish.
Jul 15th, 2020Мастика, груша, курага в носе. Нос сдержанный.
Вкус очень по мне: необычный, деликатный и непростой. Персик, фармацевтика, яблоко, хорошая минеральность. Хорошая, но не дерзкая кислотность.
Легкая, свежая, деликатная штучка.
Мастика, груша, курага в носе. Нос сдержанный.
Вкус очень по мне: необычный, деликатный и непростой. Персик, фармацевтика, яблоко, хорошая минеральность. Хорошая, но не дерзкая кислотность.
Легкая, свежая, деликатная штучка.
Floral and citrus notes, bit of Motts apple juice on the back.
Floral and citrus notes, bit of Motts apple juice on the back.
May 7th, 2018
Doesn’t get better with age just different. Slightly more honeyed and missing that searing rockiness of these on release
Doesn’t get better with age just different. Slightly more honeyed and missing that searing rockiness of these on release
Aug 26th, 2022
