Huffington post: the 9 spring white wines you need to be drinking right now
As spring rears its damned gorgeous head and fills the air with the sweet perfumed scents of life “in bloom,” it must be met with equally explosive white wines of aromatic intensity and bright fruit character. So much intensity that the flowers will turn from the sun to bend toward your glass and birds will fall quiet with each popping cork, afraid that the wine will sing more beautifully than their own spring-y tweets. Hopefully these nine wines will inspire these righteous efforts.
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8. Comte Leloup Du Château De Chasseloir 2009 Muscadet Sèvre-Et-Maine Sur Lie, Cuvée Des Ceps Centenaires, France ($19)Taste: Killer lime citrus, to the point of tasting like a candied lime peel. Bone-dry, however, and loaded with orchard fruit and a splendid chalky mineral finish.
Drink It With: Oysters and charcuterie.
Factoid: Produced by Bernard Chéreau, this sur-lie bottle-aged Muscadet (known as melon de Bourgogne locally) comes from pre-phylloxera vines, more than 100 years old.
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