Muscadet, Fief de Chaintre

FRANCE – Loire Valley – Muscadet

FRANCE – Loire Valley – Muscadet

Muscadet Sèvre et Maine

100% Melon de Bourgogne

Jean-Baptiste Hardy

Planted in the 1960s in the commune of Mouzillon. Northern exposure with loam topsoil over gabbro bedrock. Density of 7000 vines/ha.

Organic (not certified) employing biodynamic principles. Debudding. Guyot Nantais pruning.

Whole cluster pneumatic pressing. No debourbage. Fermented over indigenous yeasts. Complete malolactic conversion.

Aged for 12 months on lees in 450L barrels and concrete diamond vats. Then blended into glass-lined underground vats for 6 additional months.

Neither fined not filtered.