Domaine de la Pepiere Muscadet Sevre-et Maine La Pepie 2024 CS20230804 and her cellar is essentially

and her cellar is essentially a back-of-house operation: hand harvest

this Junmai Ginjo steps outside of his normally luscious and full bodied style to produce a sake that starts with gorgeous tropical fruit of melon and banana and then shifts to a rippingly dry finish that evokes allspice and nutmeg

this Rheingau estate crafts wines that challenge sweetness stereotypes through brilliant acidity and mineral intensity

aged in very old oak barrels

more flattering early on

Domaine de la Pepiere Muscadet Sevre-et Maine La Pepie 2024 CS20230804 and her cellar is essentiallyThe everyday joy in the Ppire lineup. La Ppie is sourced primarily from granite soils with a slice of gneiss in the Svre et Maine heartland, made by Rmi Branger and Gwnalle Croix in the style established by Marc Ollivier over three decades. Native yeast fermentation, sur lie aging, no fuss. The 2024 is a fresh out of the Atlantic kind of Muscadet: zesty, salty, ringing with citrus, the wine to drink by the bottle, not the glass. Cold, with shellfish,