A new arrival in NYC, this little Muscadet retails for about $8, so I

A new arrival in NYC, this little Muscadet retails for about $8, so I dared to try it as an apéritif on a Friday night. Pleasant and quite typical nose of wet stones, golden apples, lemon peel, honeysuckle and tarragon. Decent weight in the mouth, with a burst of apple, citrus and earth, which leads to a finish that is sadly short. A nice quaff, if one doesn’t think much about it, but no challenger to the great Muscadets of Marc Olivier or Luneau-Papin.