Domaine de la Pepiere Muscadet Serve et Maine 2023

Domaine de la Pepiere Muscadet Serve et Maine 2023

80% of the vineyards are organic, the grapes are hand harvested and whole bunch pressed (which is rare in Muscadet), ferments are wild, and there's no sulfur until post-fermentation. While the wines express their sense of place, there's excellent concentration, clarity of fruit and finely managed structure. While expressions of Clisson can sometimes be a little ripe and lack the definition that you're looking for from Muscadet, the Pepière team manage to capture the cru's flesh with fine tension, which is a winning combination.

First produced in 1988, the Domaine de la Pépière Muscadet "Briords Vieilles Vignes" is made from a three hectare parcel of old massale-selection vines (all over 60 years old, with a high percentage much older) on a slope above the Maine. The bedrock is Granite de Château Thébaud, a fissured rock that allows the vines to penetrate deeply, with ideal thin topsoils of clay with sand and gravel allowing good drainage.

Super pure aromatics, full of chalk, white florals, clear honey granny smith apple and salt it's incredibly moreish, full of texture and energy - driven by this core of electric salinity, but harmonised by this playful, exuberant fruit that sits just above flirting in a complex manner but also staying delicious and dangerously drinkable!