Splendid article on Muscadet (and other Loire regions)

[Jeff Grossman]

At The Wine Doctor. It includes some nice maps (though not lovely historical ones such as Don occasionally provides).

 

[SFJoe]

Interesting, Jeff, thanks.

A little puzzling. He notes, for instance, the 9 vignerons in the Granite de Clisson, but I don't think there are more than 3 making wine with that designation (unless someone has more current info than I do). And so on.

Is there much more interest than there used to be?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

A little Googling gives me Pepiere, Cormerais, Cognettes, and Guindon. Several, though not all, makers A Clisson also indicate a bottling of that name.

 

[lars makie]

Garagiste just sent out a blast today for a Clisson Muscadet, this one from a Domaine Perraud. And I quoth the verboseness "Other than Pepiere, Perraud appears to be the only other BIO/organic/wild yeast producer in Clisson that also hand-harvests..." So, there's one more.

 

[Joel Stewart]

Just happened to google Bossard the other night and wine doc came up first, with some more or less current info. We are meeting a fishmonger in an hour to have an oyster shucking session and l'Ecu to wash 'em down.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

Thanks Jeff.