Château du Cléray & Maison Sauvion: Tasting & Drinking
At a time when I could only dream about the wines of Marc Ollivier, Pierre Luneau-Papin and Jo Landron (they have not always been easy to track down in the UK), I was already very familiar with the wines of Château du Cléray. Perhaps this is not surprising; with a large vineyard, the fruit of which is largely channelled into a single cuvée, there is no shortage of volume here. Château du Cléray is surely one of the first examples of Muscadet I ever tasted, perhaps the very first. I am afraid my records don’t go back far enough to say with certainty (because they would have to go back 25 or 30 years, long before I started keeping reliable records of what I drank and what I thought of it).
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