13.5% alc - lees - oak.

Should be way too rich and austere for me but this wine made by the Caves du Pouilly is wonderful. No nose at all but classic texture and taste.

Velvety and nutty.

As good as the Sancerre that came and went at Sainsbury last year.

Nah! you're 'avin' a lark.

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Now look you.

It's lovely. Strange that it has no nose in the bottle but plenty in the glass. This is Loire sb as I think it should be.

Interestingly ( to me ), as the wine warmed up it became flinty. Which I guess must mean that the aftertaste of a good Sancerre/PF is flint all the time just that, in a good example, served at the right temperature, the flint is in perfect balance.

So it seems, nutty or chalky as lazy wine writers would say, not flinty.

But flint it is.

Just to confirm, this was the 2009 that you tried?

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2009. Only vintage they have done of this so far.

My local was stacked full of 2010's

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Err...right.

I should imagine the 2010 will be as good. Does your Sainsbury have all those nice expensive wines in Mel's tasting notes.

Mine used to. No more though.

This was intended as a franglais play-on-words, not casting wotsits on the TN

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Actually I don't have a local Sainsbury's.

There is one near the office (Cheshire ) and yes it does have some of the "Fine Wines" and the new "Classic" range

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