Robert & Bernard Plageoles Le Loin de L'Oeil 2017 muscadet lemon-herb butter and Granny Smith

lemon-herb butter and Granny Smith apple

These wines are immediately accessible but not without the assurance of more to come

chain link tannins that keep it all taut and exciting

This is a legacy of the quality of material involved and the higher rate of evaporation that occurs in Douro—as opposed to Vila Nova de Gaia—which concentrates the grape’s natural residual sugars

Silky elegance and fine tannin structure

Robert & Bernard Plageoles Le Loin de L'Oeil 2017 muscadet lemon-herb butter and Granny SmithSweet. Organic. Quietly (yet rather brilliantly), Domaine Plageoles has for decades been dedicating itself to resuscitatingand then making outstanding wines fromthe ancient yet unheralded grapes of the local terroir. Loin de lOeil is one of the many varieties first brought back from near extinction by this Gaillac artisan. The name translates as far from the eye, the eye being the bud and the distance alluding to the long stemmed bunches of this vine,