Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Clos des Allées

In the glass

Aroma: lemon, white flower, wet stone, white peach

Palate: citrus, saline texture, stony minerality, great length

Single-vineyard Muscadet from a 2.3-hectare monopole on schist and mica schist. Straight and taut with beautiful minerality and great length on the finish.

What it pairs with

• Steamed mussels
  Saline texture and shellfish broth lock together; the cuvée's stony minerality handles cream-shallot sauce.
• Sole bonne femme
  Mushroom-shallot cream sauce meets the wine's chalky drive and saline lift.
• Whole grilled bass with herbs
  Mediterranean fish with the wine's saline texture; the cuvée's lift handles olive oil and lemon.
• Crottin de Chavignol
  Loire goat cheese and Muscadet's chalky drive; the cuvée's white-peach lift handles cheese tang.

History

Clos des Allées is a 2.3-hectare monopole vineyard planted 1974 on schist and mica schist. The cuvée has been bottled as a single-vineyard since the early 1980s.

1. 1974: Clos des Allées vineyard planted
2. 1980: Single-vineyard Clos des Allées bottling established

Facts

Producer

Domaine Luneau-Papin · visiting guide

Grapes

Melon de Bourgogne (100%)

Classification

Muscadet Sèvre et Maine AOC

Oak

Vinified and aged on lees in underground glass-lined vats, no oak, around 12 months

ABV

12.0%

Price

EUR 16 to 25 at retail

Drinking window

2-10 from vintage

First vintage

1980

Biodynamic

Biodynamic Practicing

Organic

ORGANIC CERTIFIED

Vegan

Yes (no animal-derived fining)

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