Branger 2020 Muscadet "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. ("Gras Moutons" has nothing to do with fat sheep, by the way, but rather in old French to the grand montagne of this modest hill...)