Muscadet! July 2026 Edition
Muscadet! July 2026 Edition
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Pépière 2025 Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Briords Vieilles Vignes
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...
$25.99
Pépière 2022 Muscadet Cru Gorges
We're ecstatic to have the superb new 2022 "Gorges" from Remi and Gwenaelle at Pépière!The product of an exchange of vineyards with Fred Lailler at Domaine Bregeon, the wine undergoes a slow fermentation and is then aged 42 months on...
$34.99
Pépière 2023 Muscadet Cru Clisson
Beginning in 2005, Domaine de la Pépière has produced this cuvée from a small parcel of 50 to 110 year-old vines within the Pepiere vineyard. Originally called "Granite de Clisson" after the unique bedrock in the vineyard, Marc changed the...
$32.99
Pépière 2022 Muscadet Cru Château Thébaud
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...
$32.99
Pépière 2025 Muscadet Serve et Maine sur Lie La Pépie
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...
$18.49
Goiset, Pierre 2025 Vin de France A Tatons
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...
$26.99
Goiset, Pierre 2025 Vin de France La Mauguit
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...
$28.99
Goiset, Pierre 2025 Vin de France Le Query
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...
$28.99
Goiset, Pierre 2025 VdF Grande Falaise
"Grande Falaise" is an incredibly delicious lighter style of Merlot on granit in Maisdon-sur-Sevre (near Pepiere). The vines sit on a steep slope, a rarity in Muscadet, planted in 2014 on the granite terroir of Chateau-Thébaud. This plot has been...
$22.99
Goiset, Pierre 2025 Pet Nat L'Intranquille
This is 100% Merlot done in methode ancestrale style, hand-harvested with light crushing and pressed as whole clusters over eight hours, which gives just the faintest hint of color to the finished wine. It is aged on the lees in...
$24.99
Landron, Jo 2025 Muscadet Amphibolite
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...
$24.99
Landron, Jo 2023 Muscadet Sevre et Maine Les Houx
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...
$21.99
Luneau-Papin 2022 Muscadet Sèvre et Maine "L" d'Or Granit Vallet
2022 is another superb vintage for the Luneau-Papin "L" d'Or in a ripe, dense style but with lovely brightness as well, making it it a superb Muscadet for current drinking and long-term aging. The wine shows a fairly ripe gold...
$37.99
Parentière 2023 Muscadet Serve et Maine Vieilles Vignes
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...
$16.99
