Domaine de la Pepiere Muscadet Chateau Thebaud 2022

Name: Domaine de la Pepiere Muscadet Chateau Thebaud 2022
Brand: Farm Wine Imports [FWI]
SKU: SF-1-FWI--033026-4
Price: 35.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$35⁹⁹

Muscadet at its most intellectually stimulating. Château Thébaud is one of the newly minted Cru Communaux of Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine, and Domaine de la Pépière's bottling pulls from old vines rooted in the distinctive granite de Thébaud soils, threaded with veins of metamorphic gneiss. Marc Ollivier set the benchmark for serious Muscadet over three decades here (he retired after the 2019 vintage); the reins now sit with Rémi Branger and Gwénaëlle Croix, who farm biodynamically and press directly with extended lees aging. The 2022 is tense and bright, beautifully defined, built to age like a fine Chablis but with more storm and smoke. Open it tonight or stash it for a decade.

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More about Domaine de la Pepiere

Since 1985 Marc Olivier, proprietor of Pépière, has been producing organically farmed, single-vineyard and single-cru bottlings since before anyone knew what those were let alone what Muscadet was. Melon de Bourgogne, the grape of Muscadet, till this day is rarely grown organically and is generally made into crisp and fresh wines that have simple citrus flavors whose main purpose is to help tourists and locals down platefulls of raw oysters. In Marc's view, Muscadet can be a lot more.

In order to achieve this Marc has farmed organically since the beginning. The different plots he chooses are selected for their varying degrees of decomposing granite and gneiss. Vines are old for Muscadet Varying from 20-100 years old and all. All work in the vineyard is done by hand and the yields are kept low to ensure the highest quality fruit. All of these things are rare in Muscadet.

Marc's cellar is very cold. The grapes are pressed whole-cluster and that cold cellar allows for a long slow fermentation with native yeast and very minimal sulfur. Aging is done Sur Lie (on the dead yeast) on large underground tanks. This step is crucial as it increases the texture and complexity of the Melon. The wines are bottled, unfined and unfiltered.

Marc's contributions to the reputation of Muscadet are legion. Even though much of what comes out of the region is still produced in an industrial fashion, along with Monique Luneau-Papin, Jo Landron, Guy Bossard and the Luneau-Papins he has inspired more than a few producers to make the switch to a more human centric way of growing and making wine throughout the region and beyond. He has partnered with former protoges Rémi Branger (member of another Muscadet family) and Gwénaëlle Croix over the last decade to help ensure that the high Pépière standard is maintained well into the future.