Variety: Chardonnay, Folle Blanche, Pinot Noir
Location: Muscadet Sevre et Maine, FR
Alcohol: 12%

An intense bouquet of fresh citrus and acacia flowers, while remaining lively and fresh on the palate with notes of fresh orchard fruit and citrus.

The wine is produced under the Traditional Method, with the first fermentation in stainless steel and the second in bottle followed by a minimum of 10 months sur latte before disgorgement.

The vines for the sparkling wines grow on very different soils at l’Epinay than do the Muscadets. L’Epinay’s Muscadet soils are largely granite and gravel, whereas the grapes for this wine are grown in loamy clay soils. Vines for this wine average 25-years-old. Curille & Sylvain Paquereau are part of a new movement in the Pays Nantais that is reviving a true understanding of both their variety and the precise set of soils in which it thrives. They represent the fifth generation of their family to work this 16th-century estate, in the heart of Clisson. Conversion to organics and concentration on the precise match of grape to terroir distinguish their tenure.