Wine region-of-the-month: Muscadet

Muscadet is a wine region in the westernmost Loire valley

• A total of 13,000 hectares and 91 communes
  
• The appellation was created in 1936. There are now four ACs: Muscadet (3400ha), Muscadet Sèvre et Maine (8800ha), M. Coteaux de la Loire (200 ha), and M Côtes de Grandlieu (300ha)
  
• 700,000 hl is produced annually, exclusively from the grape variety Melon de Bourgogne, also called Muscadet
  
• Some Muscadet is made “sur lie”: it requires (for example) that the wine has been kept on the lees until bottling. This should give the wine added freshness and aromas. Some 40% of all Muscadet is sur lie.
  
• The soil is very varied: schist, micaschiste, granite, sand and gravel.

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