Long underrated and ignored, a distinctive white wine made in France’s Loire Valley is finally getting the attention it deserves. By Jeffrey T Iverson Muscadet Awakening 106 CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM
PHOTOS CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: CHRISTOPHE BORNET, PAUL STEFANAGGI (4); OPPOSITE PAGE FROM LEFT: BIRGIT HERGERT, PAUL STEFANAGGI, © DOMAINE BONNET-HUTEAU, PAUL STEFANAGGI In a land of legendary white wines, muscadet, one of the most historic wines of France’s Loire Valley, has never enjoyed much fame. The grape that creates it, called Melon de Bourgogne, flourishes nowhere besides this one coastal region at the mouth of the Loire. Yet after years of being dismissed as little more than a dependable tipple for washing down oysters, today, muscadet’s image is changing. A new generation of winemakers has awoken to their region’s remarkable geology, and to the Melon grape’s uncanny capacity to distil the character of stone. In so doing, they’re opening doors to the world’s finest restaurants, and proving that muscadet isn’t just quaffable – it’s “the quintessence of terroir”. So insists David Biraud, director of Sur Mesure par Thierry Marx in Paris. As a child of France’s Atlantic coast, the bottle that kindled the passion of this future Best Sommelier in France was no rare CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM 107
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