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Domaine Treloar One Block Muscat 2009 IGP Côtes Catalanes
Domaine Treloar One Block Muscat 2009 table

Vintage	2009
Region	Trouillas in the Cotes du Roussillon, west of Perpignan
Colour/Style	Dry white - medium bodied.
Grapes	100% Muscat a Petits Grains
Alcohol (a.b.v)	13.0%
Food	Aperitif, salads, seafoods, chicken, creamy cheeses
Next day	Still really good
Drink	Great to drink now, or keep for 2 to 3 years
This latest vintage is again packed with grapey, orangey, herby fruit flavours, but with a little more grip and seriousness than previous vintages. It is laced with herb and spice nuances, as a complement to a huge core of orange, apricot and grape flavours. It is quite rich and palate-coating, but with excellent underlying acidity and no hint of the bitterness that sometimes afflicts less well-made examples of this variety. It is a beautifully balanced wine ,and very long, too. Dry Muscat doesn't get any better than this.

Price: £10.25 (Including: VAT at 20%)

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Domaine Treloar One Block Muscat 2010 IGP Côtes Catalanes
Domaine Treloar One Block Muscat 2010

Vintage	2010
Region	Trouillas in the Cotes du Roussillon, west of Perpignan
Colour/Style	Dry white - light-to-medium bodied.
Grapes	Muscat a Petits Grains and Muscat d’Alexandrie
Alcohol (a.b.v)	13.0%
Food	Aperitif, salads, seafoods, chicken, creamy cheeses
Next day	Still really good
Drink	Drink now or over the next 1 to 2 years
A pale, bright straw/gold colour. The nose offers grapey and floral aromas, combined with hints of passion fruit, spring blossom, lemongrass and white pepper. The palate is medium weight, airy and almost bone-dry, offering delightfully tangy orange/lemon citrus and stone fruit flavours, with subtle hints of spices and herbs. Seemingly a tad more delicate and less intense than the 2009, with an abundance of fresh, juicy flavours, this is actually a deceptively substantial wine, with layers of earthy minerality and spices which linger on a persistent finish. This may just be the best dry Muscat we have ever tasted. It is classy and versatile - and perfect to drink right now. Serve lightly chilled.

Price: £10.25 (Including: VAT at 20%)

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Domaine Treloar La Terre Promise 2010 IGP Côtes Catalanes
Domaine Treloar La Terre Promise 2010

Vintage	2010
Region	Trouillas, west of Perpignan
Colour/Style	Dry white - medium-bodied, fermented and aged in barrel
Grapes	50% Grenache Gris, 30% Macabeu, 20% Carignan Blanc
Alcohol (a.b.v)	13.0%
Food	Strong cheeses, chicken, paella, fish stew
Next day	Better still - takes time to evolve
Drink	Good now, but will benefit from a year or two in bottle
The yields for this wine are tiny - just 12 hectolitres per hectare. It is a medium-hued, shiny gold colour, with pale orange glints. The nose is rather ungiving to begin with, and needs a lot of air to find its stride. With time, hints of peach, apple and apricot emerge, accompanied by notes of clove and subtle (older) oak. The palate is spicy and on the rich side of medium-bodied, with flavours reminiscent of clove and cinnamon-infused apple pie, hints of raisin and garrigue herbs, a touch of wood tannin and excellent underlying acidity, which carries all the way through to a tangy, spicy finish. This is a wine which shows much better on the second day, which tells me that it is a bitt of a sleeper, which will benefit from a year or two tucked away in the cellar. Stylistically, I recall that the 2008 was somewhat Burgundian, whilst the 2009 was more Rhone. To my mind, this one falls somewhere in-between.

Price: £13.79 (Including: VAT at 20%)

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Domaine Treloar MO2 N/V (50cl)
Treloar MO2 2009

Vintage	Strictly speaking, non-vintage, but made from grapes from the 2009 harvest
Region	Trouillas, west of Perpignan
Colour/Style	White, almost dry, lightly fortified
Grapes	100% Muscat à Petit Grains
Alcohol (a.b.v)	15.0%
Food	Aperitif, foie gras, patés, cheeses
Next day	Stays fresh for many days after opening
Drink	Anytime over the next 5 to 50 years!
Described by winemaker Jon Hesford as "fermented in the presence of oxygen until dry, fortified with grape spirit and aged in a 2 year-old oak barrel with headspace, out in the sun". Basically, it was a batch of Muscat that "went wrong" (i.e. oxidised - hence the name) due to a technical fault with a grape press. Instead of sending the resulting juice to be distilled, Jon decided to experiment. The result is a wine that to all intents and purposes looks and smells like a slightly nutty (in both senses of the word) Muscat de Rivesaltes, a deep-ish orange/gold colour with orange marmalade and solera/flor-like notes, classic Muscat grapiness, a touch of honey, perhaps even a hint of digestive biscuit and a subtle herbiness. And whilst your nose prepares you for a sweet wine, the palate is very definitely almost dry, with only the fortifying grape spirit contributing a perception of "off-dryness". Conversely, the texture is quite rich and unctious, coating the mouth with delicious grapey, marmaladey, buttery/biscuity and nutty flavours, yet remaining steadfastly refreshing and distinctly tangy. This really is a wine for contemplation ,and the length, by the way, is immense - unlike Parker, I'm not one to put the stopwatch on, but we're talking minutes, rather than seconds. I could try and categorise it, but that would be unfair to a wine that is - albeit by accident, rather than design - pretty unique. In short, it is completely and utterly lovely.

Price: £16.25 (Including: VAT at 20%)

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Domaine Mas de Lavail Le Sud 2008 Vin de Pays des Côtes Catalanes
Domaine Mas de Lavail Le Sud 2008 table

Vintage	2008
Region	VDP des Côtes Catalanes, Maury, west of Perpignan
Colour/Style	Dry white - full bodied. Aged in oak barrels for 12 months
Grapes	A blend of Grenache Blanc and Grenache Gris
Alcohol (a.b.v)	14.5%
Food	Fish, seafood, chicken, pork, spicy oriental dishes
Next day	Even better
Drink	Over the next 5 to 8 years
Very pale gold colour with a watery rim. The nose is intensely fragrant, combining grape, apple and stone fruit aromas, with notes of honeysuckle, marmalade, orange blossom, herbs and spices and creamy, smoky oak. It's a very complex nose, for such a young wine. The palate is equally intense and extremely full-bodied, rich and expressive - and equally complex. The flavours are of spiced fruit salad laced with Calvados, with some distinctly herbal notes (fennel, oregano). There's a healthy lick of acidity, which provides a nice counter to the rich, almost tangy marmalade mid-palate and the long, warming finish. You often read that a wine "wears its alcohol well", by way of mitigating a perceived drawback. But this wine wears its 14.5% abv proudly on its sleeve. It isn't a quaffer, it is a food wine (perhaps chicken or pork, or fish with a herby sauce) and is not for the faint-hearted. It is undoubtedly big and rich and packed with flavour, but for all that power, it is curiously elegant and quirky - and very lovely. I think it will be a keeper, too - watch it develop over the next 5 or more years. It's a shame we only bought a few cases!.

Price: £14.80 (Including: VAT at 20%)

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Domaine Pietri-Geraud Blanc l'Écume 2008 Collioure
Domaine Pietri-Geraud Blanc l'Ecume 2008 table

Vintage	2008
Region	Collioure - by the Mediterranean, near the Spanish border
Colour/Style	Dry white - medium-to-full bodied, barrel fermented.
Grapes	85% Grenache Blanc & Gris, 15% Vermentino
Alcohol (a.b.v)	13.5%
Food	White meats, grilled or baked fish, seafood
Next day	As good
Drink	Excellent now, or keep for 5+ years
Complex aromas combining honey, apple and citrus. Smoky, floral and liquorice notes add yet more dimensions to another complex wine. The palate is again rich and savoury, full of fruit and still with that lovely streak of citrus acidity and minerality. The oak tannins from the barrel fermentation add yet more depth and complexity. An extremely elegant wine, there is layer upon layer of interest here, which can only be enhanced by another year or two in bottle, although it is already drinking really well. Another brilliant wine from Laeticia Pietri and a Gold Medal winner at the 2010 Paris Show.

Price: £13.99 (Including: VAT at 20%)

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Domaine Treloar Muscat de Rivesaltes 2009 (50cl)

Vintage	2009
Region	Rivesaltes, near Perpignan
Colour/Style	White, vin doux naturel
Grapes	100% Muscat à Petit Grains
Alcohol (a.b.v)	15.0%
Food	Aperitif, fruit, desserts, paté, soft cheeses
Next day	Improves and retains its freshness for weeks
Drink	Anytime over the next 5 years
Oh my, this is lovely! It has an intense nose of jasmine, mandarin and apricot with hints of fennel, star anise and white chocolate. The flavours are once again rich and complex, but the inherent freshness on the palate is a joy to behold. There is of course a degree of richness, but it tastes grapey in the extreme, with subtle notes of cinnamon, clove, mandarin and lemon oil. And at just 15% abv, the added grape spirit goes almost unnoticed. Instead, what you get is a delightfully refreshing, intensely fruity, sweet, but relatively light fortified wine, with mouth-watering acidity that dances over the tongue and keeps you coming back for more. The 2006 was good (none was made in 2007 or 2008) but this 2009 represents a huge leap in quality. Achieving balance and elegance in a fortified wine requires very skilful winemaking - and this is yet another style that Jon Hesford has mastered very quickly. An outstanding wine!

Price: £10.50 (Including: VAT at 20%)

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Domaine Mas de Lavail Muscat de Rivesaltes 2008
Domaine Mas de Lavail Muscat de Rivesaltes 2008 table

Vintage	2008
Region	Maury, west of Perpignan
Colour/Style	White, vin doux naturel
Grapes	100% old vine Muscat a Petits Grains
Alcohol (a.b.v)	16.0%
Food	As an aperitif or with blue cheese, fois gras or fresh fruit
Next day	Keeps well for weeks
Drink	Excellent now, or age for 3 to 5 years
If you have ever been lucky enough to enjoy eating fresh muscat grapes (they are often available in French markets and supermarkets in late August) then you won't need me to tell you how delicious they are. And wines don't come much more "grapey" than a fine Muscat de Rivesaltes - and they don't come any better than this little cracker. The nose offers a riot of (you guessed it) grapey aromas, with notes of lime marmalade and clementines. The palate is both mouth-filling and super-fresh, like munching on a handful of grapes, but with an ethereal, marmalade-y richness. The inherent natural acidity and slight pithiness of the Muscat grape are complemented perfectly by just the right amount of fortifying grape spirit. To be honest, I have rarely tasted a bad Muscat de Rivesaltes (with such wonderful raw material, that would be difficult) but some cheaper examples can be a bit too hot for their own good. Not this one, though. - it manages to be both rich and mouth-watering at the same time, whilst the grape spirit adds a refreshing tanginess, rather than heat. Young Muscat de Rivesaltes is never profound, although I've heard tell that if you are brave enough to age it for 10 or 15 years, it can be. But why wait, when it tastes this good at less than 2 years old? It is utterly lovely - and very long, too. In all my years, I've yet to taste a better one. Yummy!

Price: £11.95 (Including: VAT at 20%)

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