Domaine Pierre Luneau-Papin Muscadet Sevre-et-Maine Sur Lie Le Verger 2024

Domaine Pierre Luneau-Papin Muscadet Sevre-et-Maine Sur Lie Le Verger 2024

Domaine Pierre Luneau-Papin Muscadet Sevre-et-Maine Sur Lie Le Verger 2024

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‘Le Verger’ from Domaine Pierre Luneau-Papin is a vibrant, terroir-driven Muscadet that exemplifies the estate’s dedication to purity, precision, and place. This wine is all about freshness, minerality, and texture—a stellar ambassador of the Loire’s Atlantic-influenced whites.  A lively, precise, and unadorned wine that’s meant to showcase the unique expression of its site—“Le Verger” (The Orchard), a granite-rich parcel.

Our Tasting Note (2023):
Again, 2024 should be brighter a a little fresher as it was a cooler year than the following note we had on the 2023. Pale straw with silver-green highlights, crystal-clear and bright. A delicate yet expressive med+ nose, with aromas of lemon zest, green apple skin, and white peach, layered over subtle notes of chalk, sea spray, and fresh-cut herbs. A hint of yeasty complexity from the lees aging adds depth. Med-minus bodied and electrically fresh, a backbone of bracing acidity and a granite-driven minerality that pulses through the mid-palate. Med+ flavor intensity of fresh lemon, lime, and green pear, with the lees contact bringing a faint creamy texture that balances the tension beautifully. A crisp and mouthwatering finish, with notes of lemon pith, wet stone, and a clean, saline lift that lingers.  Excellent!

    • Variety: Melon de Bourgogne
    • Vine Age: Planted in 1998
    • Terroir: Les Bernardières, Chapelle-Heulin, schist bedrock.
    • Viticulture: Certified organic (Ecocert, 2013), biodynamic (Demeter & Biodyvin, 2019).
    • Vinification: Pressed with whole clusters, ambient yeast fermentation, aged for 5-6 months in underground glass-lined tank, no racking during aging, no fining or filtration, SO2 added at bottling.
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