Muscadet

Muscadet-sèvre-et-maine sur lie.

Muscadet goes well with oysters .

Muscadet ( French Muscadet ) - white and dry French wine . It is produced mainly in the Atlantic Loire department in the south of the city of Nantes and partially in the departments of Maine and Loire and Vendée ( Loire Region). This wine from the vineyards of the Loire Valley is made from only one grape variety - Melon de Bourgogne ( FR. Melon de Bourgogne ) ^[1] . Appellation ^[2] ( French appellation ) has been classified as AOC ( items controlled by origin ) since 1937 and covers an area of ​​13,000 hectares.

Of all French wines, only Muscadet receives, after special control, the right to inscribe on the label “sur lie” (“on sediment”), which indicates the use of a special aging method: wine is not removed from the yeast sediment after completion of fermentation, but up to bottling insists on it, so it becomes oily and contains a small amount of carbon dioxide, which gives the wine a special freshness and tingles the tongue. This technology requires that only healthy berries be used for making wine, and the vinification process is strictly controlled. The best Muscadet, produced on purely shale soils of the banks of the Sevres and Maine rivers (tributaries of the Loire), is called Muscadet-sèvre-et-maine. This noble wine is characterized by the so-called “iodine note” - due to contact with yeast sediment, the wine acquires the aroma of seaweed. It goes well with seafood. ^[3]