Flying off the shelves apparantly.

Intense and very mineral. The chalk is just a bit ott for me but a very good effort.

The Sancerre at Sainsbury for 50p more is the better wine.

Goose, have you tasted any of the M&S Sancerre's? One is on offer at the moment Moreau or something like that. Its not on the website.

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I've had three M&S Sancerres. The Les Ruettes was the nicest but it was quite flinty. This Tesco wine became flintier as the night wore on. I had to leave the last glass. The Cailbourdin Pouilly Fume is wonderful. Sold out at most stores and no longer listed on the website.

Always happens when you find a really good one.

True.

They have moved our town centre and there is a new large M&S that is usually very well stocked, so I will have a look for that Pouilly Fume.

Was the Moreau one you tried? The other two on their website are Hubert Brochard and Domaine Bailly.

The Moreau is not listed, but they have a chablis and petit chablis under this name.

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Was that the 2007 which I found harder and austere, and dying, maybe the bottle was cooked under the store lights . '08 Les Ruettes was more satisfying.

You had the '09 Ruettes Goose ? Has the price moved up for the '09 ?

Learning for recent Loire imbibers - Chenin havest comment as well

J. Moreau is a famous Chablis producer 1er and GC. I have noted though, that ? Moreau ?? also produce reasonable quality table wines for restaurents - Same producer ? - Wouldn't have thought so. They dont normally overlap, unless the really big brand operations, and we'd know that.

http://jimsloire.blogspot.com/p/work-in ... blanc.html

I was massively seduced by a cheap '05 Pouilly Fume from Waitrose - search past posting here.

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The Brocard is expensive and just dry white wine with a silky texture. Hugely overpriced at £13.99. The Bailly Sancerre is far better than the Bailly Quincy which is harsh and very tart. I wouldn't compare his Sancerre to the Cailbordin PF though. I haven't seen the Moreau and haven't heard of the producer. Not in the Loire anyway.

The Les Ruettes was very good in 06.....lemon and chalk in good balance. The 08 was flinty and the 09 is now £12.99.

Sod that ! The Les Ruettes rose for the same price is a great example of a pinot noir rose. A good bottle is probably my fav pink of all time.

Beware the bottle variation though.

The Petit is J Moreau. The Chab Louis Moreau. Don't know about the Sancerre, but I believe it is the '09.

I'm intrigued, so may get one to try (£8.49 on offer) but I have little experience here, so my notes are probably not going to be overly helpful.

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Indeed Tribs - the Moreau family have domaines all over the region. Jean-Joseph the founder 1814 who bought the Hospices de Chablis vineyards, Louis as well, who has 1er and GC and I found out this morning, when looking up all their prestige domaines, that there is Christain M, who was a lumerjack in Canada before he returned to the nest to start his own show with Dad's money.


so my notes are probably not going to be overly helpful Au contraire, I'm biased by my own penchant for particular styles - Say it how it is, if you dont understand the appeal of a wine, or it is hyped by the trade.....say why you dont favour it. What you don't favour in the notes and nuances - may be what another wine lover finds satisfying in that style.

You're not going to be miles off target - and whose target at this affordable end, is it anyway. £8.49 is a cracking price for an '09

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What a fuffing idiot!

The Les Ruettes was on the Moreau Chablis shelf!! I had read the producer from the label and the Sancerre on the bottle

The Les Ruettes is still £12.99

I'm off to Sainsbury's

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