The 2023 Time Machine Blanc from Bow & Arrow is mostly Chenin with a splash or two of Chardonnay and Melon. It's a bright and refreshing wine with crisp apple fruit, subtle texture and great acidity. Perfect for summer picnics...

 Amphibolite - a metamorphic stone generally formed from gabbro or basalt, with a high concentration of iron and magnesium, prevalent in the vineyard, over a bedrock of gneiss. The wine from this vineyard is low in alcohol and high in...

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Classic Muscadet, primarily from granite soils with a small percentage on gneiss. The core of the "La Pépie" Sur Lie bottling is the 10-hectare heart of the Pépière estate, which is part of the Clisson cru...

Pierre Goiset's superb 2025 "La Mauguit" is really a Muscadet, from 75 year-old Melon de Bourgogne vines on soils of orthogneiss and quartz in a parcel called "La Mauguitonniere" in Maisdon-sur-Sevre. The nose opens with great freshness, driven by vibrant...

The Cru Château Thébaud comes from old vines in vineyards with great terroir on slopes overlooking the river Maine, primarily in the "Clos des Morines." The granite here (Granite de Château Thébaud, oddly enough) is fissured and permeable by the...

Domaine Landron "Les Houx" (formerly known as "Hermine D'Or") is from a great parcel of thin sandy clay soils, rich with silica, quartz and iron, over a bedrock of gneiss and clay, close to the "Fief du Breil."  Kept on...

First produced in 1988, this great Muscadet 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...

Pierre Goiset's 2025 "À Tâtons" is from the same parcel as his "Le Query," from younger vines, 35 to 65 years of age, on the granite soils in Maisdon. The grapes see a light crushing, pressed as whole clusters over...

Pierre Goiset's 2025 "Le Query" is from 65 to 105 year-old vines planted on granite soils in the parcel of the same name in Maisdon-sur-Sevre. Superb elegance and freshness from the old vines on granite, with outstanding texture and perfect...

Michel and Guilhaume Ménager produce this lovely Musacdet on their tiny estate near Vallet, which they have tended organically for more than 40 years. The sub-soil is gabbro, a type of basalt, that gives a unique aromatic quality to the...