Jerome Bretaudeau Gabbro Clos des Bouquinardieres Muscadet Sevre et Maine 2023 051826OFFER almost sexy fruit and real

almost sexy fruit and real terroir underneath

Luca Currado and Elena Penna channel their decades at Vietti into this Timorasso from the Colli Tortonesi

30% Pinot Noir from Avenay Val d'Or and 20% old vine Pinot Meunier from Cuis

Lavaux typically receives more new oak than the village wines

From vines planted in the 1930s

Jerome Bretaudeau Gabbro Clos des Bouquinardieres Muscadet Sevre et Maine 2023 051826OFFER almost sexy fruit and realClos des Bouquinardieres is a parcel in Gorges planted in the early 1990s, on altered gabbro and clay with quartz. Direct pressing, spontaneous fermentation, and around 18 months of aging on fine lees in underground glass tile lined tanks without batonnage the wine is built on tension, not weight. This is Muscadet at its most serious: high end, age worthy, and a benchmark for what the appellation can do in the hands of a great vigneron.