Muscadet - Domaine du Fief aux Dames / Les Vignes du Bourg

🇫🇷 Wine region: Loire Valley, Pays Nantais, near by the city of Nantes.

📍 Appellation: Muscadet Sèvre et Maine sur Lie

🍇 Grape variety: 100% Melon de Bourgogne

🏜 Terroir: With the common characteristic of being shallow sandy-silt soils, part of the vineyard is cultivated on soils whose mother rock is gneiss producing fruity and floral wines and the other part on gabbros providing more fat and volume in the mouth.

👨🏻‍🌾 Wine-making: In the tradition of the estate, these grapes from the slopes of the Sèvre were harvested at full maturity and vinified by terroir. Fermentation takes place at low temperature to develop the aromas. After maturing 6 months on lees in glass-lined, underground cement vats. the blending and bottling made it possible to obtain this cuvée

🌡 Alcohol content: 12° C

📝 Tasting notes: this Cuvée is a very good quality muscadet with a brilliant light gold colour, a nose of citrus fruits on a mineral background with a lot of freshness. Nervous, clean, fruity, iodine note, good persistence. This wine is best enjoyed between 8° and 10°.

🍽Food pairing : Muscadet is ideal for aperitifs, seafood and fish.

🏰 The Domaine: Domaine du Fief aux Dames is a family vineyard in Monnières in the heart of the historic Nantes vineyard. The BRAUD family has been running the vineyard over five generations for nearly a century. They mainly produce "Muscadet Sèvre et Maine sur Lie", a dry white wine from a single grape variety: the Melon de Bourgogne. The Muscadet appellation was certified AOC in 1937. They produce several different vintages that reflect the true character of their different terroirs: selections of specific parcels (Monnières Saint Fiacre), blended vintages (Tradition), maturing in oak barrels, etc. The estate is Terra Vitis certified, an alternative to ecocert (Bio) certification.

🤓: Julien is a young winemaker, he learnt the vine and wine job with his father. After a degree as an agriculture engineering with an Oenology and viticulture specialty, he spent few vintages with his father and decided to start his own project in order to underline the quality of the grape called Melon de Bourgogne on his terroir.

Since 2012 he is running a human size estate of 7.5 hectares which only 5.5 hectares are currently under production. His goal is to produce wines of character.