Pascal Potaire

Les Capriades Piège à Filles Chenin Blanc

9.214 ratings
9.33 pro ratings
Pays Nantais, Loire Valley, France
Chenin Blanc
Turkey, Vanilla & Caramel, Fruit & Berries, Exotic Spices, Salads & Greens, Pate, Potato, Tomato-Based, Chicken, Fruit Desserts, Quinoa, Farro, Brown Rice, White Rice, Pasta, Onion, Shallot, Garlic, Pungent Cheese, Squash & Root Vegetables, Goat & Feta Cheese, Cheddar & Gruyere, Sweet Potato, Yuca, Taro, Baking Spices, Chili & Hot Spicy, Nuts & Seeds, Soft Cheese, Salami & Prosciutto, Shellfish, Crab & Lobster, Quinoa, Shellfish, Sweet Potato
Top Notes For
Meg Herring

Apples, pears, and some biscuits. So friggin yummy. Excellent paired with spicy Chinese takeout 🥂🥡🍎🍐🍞

Apples, pears, and some biscuits. So friggin yummy. Excellent paired with spicy Chinese takeout 🥂🥡🍎🍐🍞

Feb 25th, 2018
Marissa A. Ross

Wine Editor, Bon Appétit

9.7

The name "Girl Trap" is not a joke. I am so in love with this wine. It makes me want to throw myself at it, and beg it to date me. Or at the very least, feel me up a couple times. With crunchy, tart cranberry, raspberry, pomegranate and a chiffon fizz, it is a heavenly flirtation in a glass. Les Capriades is redefining "pink panty dropper".

The name "Girl Trap" is not a joke. I am so in love with this wine. It makes me want to throw myself at it, and beg it to date me. Or at the very least, feel me up a couple times. With crunchy, tart cranberry, raspberry, pomegranate and a chiffon fizz, it is a heavenly flirtation in a glass. Les Capriades is redefining "pink panty dropper".

1 person found it helpfulSep 1st, 2016
Erik Nordman

Delicious, clean, impeccably-executed pet-nat. Has none of the technical issues or faulty edge that can plague many other examples of the style. Ripe and slightly sweet yet still so bright, tangy and refreshing due to the strong acidity balancing the RS. Absolutely lived up to their hype as one of the highest-level producers of méthode ancestrale sparkling wines in France.

- Color: bright, medium (-) straw-gold hue
- Nose: ripe, drying apricot, ripe bruised green apple, alfalfa honey, hay, wet river stone, chamomile, wild yeastiness
- Palate: bruised green apple, bruised apricot, wet stone minerality, chamomile, hay, alfalfa honey
- Acid: high
- RS: off-dry, I’m guessing probably 20something grams/liter
- Alcohol: medium (-)
- Body: light/medium (-); moderate intensity of fine, soft bubbles.

Delicious, clean, impeccably-executed pet-nat. Has none of the technical issues or faulty edge that can plague many other examples of the style. Ripe and slightly sweet yet still so bright, tangy and refreshing due to the strong acidity balancing the RS. Absolutely lived up to their hype as one of the highest-level producers of méthode ancestrale sparkling wines in France.

- Color: bright, medium (-) straw-gold hue
- Nose: ripe, drying apricot, ripe bruised green apple, alfalfa honey, hay, wet river stone, chamomile, wild yeastiness
- Palate: bruised green apple, bruised apricot, wet stone minerality, chamomile, hay, alfalfa honey
- Acid: high
- RS: off-dry, I’m guessing probably 20something grams/liter
- Alcohol: medium (-)
- Body: light/medium (-); moderate intensity of fine, soft bubbles.

Mar 17th, 2018
Michael Piaker

2 July 2017. Convive Wines, New York, NY.

2 July 2017. Convive Wines, New York, NY.

Jul 3rd, 2017
Michael Piaker

19 April 2017. The Four Horsemen, Brooklyn, NY.

19 April 2017. The Four Horsemen, Brooklyn, NY.

Apr 20th, 2017
Michael Piaker

28 March 2017. Wildair, New York, NY.

28 March 2017. Wildair, New York, NY.

Mar 29th, 2017
Doctor No

Simple and delicious. Natural wine geek/NY Somm version of mid-range Prosecco - just a bit too nice to make a mimosa out of, but on a hot day you could chug it like a spritzer. No funk. Crunchy red fruit.

Simple and delicious. Natural wine geek/NY Somm version of mid-range Prosecco - just a bit too nice to make a mimosa out of, but on a hot day you could chug it like a spritzer. No funk. Crunchy red fruit.

Nov 7th, 2016
Jared Greenfield

Jared had this 7 years ago

Jared had this 7 years ago

Jan 1st, 2018
Emily Baddock

Emily had this 7 years ago

Emily had this 7 years ago

Oct 17th, 2017
Alexander Robart

Alexander had this 8 years ago

Alexander had this 8 years ago

Jan 13th, 2017