Domaine de la Pépière Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Sur Lie 2025

You already know about our long-standing love affair with Muscadet. We just love this wine. Salty, briny, mineral, broad. It's like Chablis's cousin, we've always said. A good excuse to look the other way and drink something that isn't Chardonnay.

So we were very, very pumped when one of our favourite producers in the region, Domaine de la Pépière, came back in stock, right in time for warmer weather.

Pépière is a historic estate. When most people in the region were churning out cheap Muscadet for mass consumption, Marc Ollivier was making single-cru wines from his vineyards. Clos de Briords was one of the first in 1988! He was way ahead of the curve with half of the estate's 42 hectares sitting within the crus of Clisson, Monnières-Saint Fiacre, Château-Thébaud, and Gorges.

Marc's last vintage was 2019. Now the estate is in the very capable hands of Rémi Branger and Gwénaëlle Croix. Rémi is local. Marc has known him since he was a kid. When Rémi's father retired in 2005, Marc bought his land, and Rémi started working there in 2006. So everything stays in the same hands, sort of.

Anyway! Enough history! This wine comes from a 12-hectare plot on a hillside of the Maine. Highly stony soil, good drainage, early ripening. The vines average 25 years old. The wine is left on its lees until spring, no racking. It's creamy, mineral, zesty, delicious. Everything we want from Muscadet and more.