Bellevue (Jerome Bretaudeau), Muscadet Sevre-et-Maine Gabbro Clos Des Bouquinardieres, 2023
Single-vineyard Muscadet from volcanic rock — a quiet rebuke to anyone who still thinks of this appellation as bargain-bin oyster wine. Jérôme Bretaudeau farms fifteen biodynamic hectares across the southern Sèvre-et-Maine and is one of the producers leading the new wave of soil-specific Muscadets. The Gabbro bottling comes from the Clos des Bouquinardières in Gorges, planted on gabbro — an igneous rock that solidified slowly beneath the earth's surface, denser cousin to basalt. The Melon de Bourgogne is direct-pressed and rested 24 months on fine lees in underground glass tile-lined tanks, no oak in the picture. The result is a Muscadet with weight and savor: smoke, crushed stone, citrus pith, the saline grip that volcanic soils tend to deliver. Serious wine at a quietly serious level.
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Single-vineyard Muscadet from volcanic rock — a quiet rebuke to anyone who still thinks of this appellation as bargain-bin oyster wine. Jérôme Bretaudeau farms fifteen biodynamic hectares across the southern Sèvre-et-Maine and is one of the producers leading the new wave of soil-specific Muscadets. The Gabbro bottling comes from the Clos des Bouquinardières in Gorges, planted on gabbro — an igneous rock that solidified slowly beneath the earth's surface, denser cousin to basalt. The Melon de Bourgogne is direct-pressed and rested 24 months on fine lees in underground glass tile-lined tanks, no oak in the picture. The result is a Muscadet with weight and savor: smoke, crushed stone, citrus pith, the saline grip that volcanic soils tend to deliver. Serious wine at a quietly serious level.
