Brett Foskett

9.6

👍🏻 Very Gneiss!! 👍🏻 — a year ago

Bridget Fletcher

9.5

Wow! This is special. It smells of wet stone and vanilla and tastes of crisp apples with a light champagne finish. The front is warm with a cool finish. Dry. Notes of citrus and unripe pear. A smidge woody and a gentle yeastyness. Love this! — 4 years ago

RJ Stefanski

9.2

Mmmmm. Sleek, charming, and complex - I need to drink more Austrian Riesling on this level. A very precise medium-bodied stunner with generous fruit cradled in remarkable acidity.

More info: Burgstall is a windy plateau with sandy gneiss and granite soils. 84 cases imported to U.S. $35 — 5 years ago

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.0

Liquid stones. — 7 years ago

Chip Hughes

9.2

Superb 2016. Mica-schist & gneiss; vines average 40 years. Creamy, leesy; continued to open over three days. A great lesson in the superior quality of hand-harvested fruit. #muscadet #luneau #fromenteaux #loire — 8 years ago

Erik Nordman

9.0

One of the more interesting Muscadets I've had! Definitely more perfumed than any other I've had in the past; aromas of honeydew melon, starfruit, and a bit of white rose join the classic Muscadet citrus and briny mineral character, which has an almost iodine-y character in this example that I actually really like. On the palate it shows more like classic Muscadet, with the citrus, hard cheese rind, and briny oyster shell predominating while the melon and floral character of the nose is replaced by ripe yellow apple. Acid is kickin' and razor sharp. Has a nice weighty medium body from the lees treatment but still remains nimble and quenching. Solid stuff. Would love to try it with the Gneiss and Orthogneiss to see how the soil type affects the final product, as i'm pretty sure they're all vinified pretty similarly. — 10 years ago

Silvia's Wine

Founder, V&N Cellars - Barcelona

9.1

Even more mineral than Gneiss. More pronounced acidity but balanced — 11 years ago

Eric Kememes

9.2

Mineral intense muscadet love this saline finish — 3 years ago

Erik Longabardi

9.4

Good muscadet is ethereal. — 5 years ago

Jakub Kalinowski

9.1

Carignan & Grenache from old vines grown on gneiss, aged 2y in cement tanks, organic & non filtered.
Fresh & not overly fruity with the carignan driven aromas of fur, roast, leather & spices taking the lead. Some fresh, juicy, minty raspberries in the background.
On the palate this is supple & quite fruity yet bone dry, very fresh & energetic with fine, zippy tannins and a garrigue streak. There’s a nice mineral backbone, too, which comes to shine in the finish.
A lovely, delicious wine, off the beaten track.
(Ugly label though) — 5 years ago

Shengli Hu

9.3

White flowers, apricot, honey, and minerality. Elevated acid. On gneiss soil.. — 7 years ago

Jordan Hu

9.0

Great with chocolate, bad with citrus. Refreshing and light. Definitely drinkable

Established in 1779, whole cluster fermented 2 weeks, 40 year old vines on gneiss soil. Unlike most pinot noir, raw flavor, easy drinking, versatile wine, served slightly chilled. — 9 years ago

Elaine Thap

9.7

Less than 350 cases, Guigal hermitage old clone of Syrah aka Serine with some Viognier. Lieu-dit La Viallière meaning special soils of decomposed schist and gneiss. No chemicals, natural yeasts, and Demi-muids/ new wood barrels. Ruby garnet color with aromas of bacon, cherry, rose petals while silky on the palette with some herbal notes on the finish. Medium to full body. — 11 years ago

with Kimberly, Caitlin and 2 others

Peter Sultan

9.0

Classic cab franc profile, along with that chewy,fine tannin texture I love. From a small coastal region of the Loire I’m not familiar with. — 4 years ago

with Owen

Courteny Morehouse

9.0

Date drank: Frebruary 2020
Year: 2012
Producer: Monnaires-Saint-Fiacre
Grape(s): 
Region: Muscadet Sevre et Maine
Purchased from: Fountainhead
Distributor/Importer: SAP! Fountainhead Selections
Natty: french
Notes: Glu glu. Nicely balanced and great with white fish dish. Metamorphic rocks, gneiss type with two micas. Vines more 65 years old. Short pruning with 8-eye fruiting cane, organic and biodynamic for soil and vines. Hand harvested. Harvested sept. 30, 2013 35 hl/ha. .  — 5 years ago

Stefan Dolhain

9.2

2015 vintage. Goulaine is the northernmost of the 7 Muscadet de Sèvre et Maine subzones (considered the highest quality crus). Gneiss and schist soils. This beauty was aged for more than 18 months on the lees. Brillant pale yellow. Intensely perfumed, an intriguing mix of flowers, grapefruit and saffron, combined with a distinctive minerality. Crisp and intense taste with mouth-watering bright citrus fruit, a distinctive saffron-like touch and that typical Muscadet saltiness in the long finish. Incredible value at 19 euro. Note also that these wines (always 100 % Melon de Bourgogne) can age beautifully. — 6 years ago

Philippe L

9.0

Cave de Crozon — 8 years ago

C Burwell

8.9

oh very gneiss. — 9 years ago

Christopher Bates

Master Sommelier, Owner/Winemaker Element Winery

9.5

A stunning bottle. Drank like it was great three-year-old hybrid of Chablis and muscadet — 10 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.8

One of the best wines I have tasted so far in 2015. Pinot Blanc from gneiss stone bedrock soils. The lift, energy and depth of flavor is profound and for me plants a mental flag on a hillside in the Wachau. #austria #oldvines — 11 years ago