Branger 2022 Muscadet "Terroir Les Gras Moutons"

We're happy to welcome another "Gras Moutons" to Chambers Street, this time from Claude and Sebastien Branger (yes, related to Remi Branger of Pepiere). Although from the same vineyard, the Branger parcel has much more amphibolite in the soil with a bedrock of gneiss, bringing tastes of flint and smoke to the white and yellow fruits and citrus in this lovely wine. The vines were planted between 1930 and 1986, and average more than 50 years old.  After spontaneous fermentation, the wine rests on its lees in underground tanks for twelve to fourteen months. Ripe, round, concentrated, and intensely mineral, this wine can age beautifully but is perfectly refreshing and delicious now. "The 2022 les Gras Moutons is a beautiful wine, completely defined by its underlying minerality, as it offers up scents of lemon, breadfruit, a complex foundation of stony minerality, lovely leesy tones and a topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and gently briny in personality, with an excellent core of fruit, superb mineral drive and cut, excellent focus and complexity and a long, seamlessly balanced and vibrant finish. Great juice!" View from the Cellar