Loire Valley Cabernet Franc from 35–40-year-old vines on clay-limestone in the shadow of a 15th-century church steeple
Bairrada sits about ten miles from the Atlantic
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founded in 1936 and still family-owned by Thompson Willett's grandchildren
The result is plush and aromatic but never heavy
Domaine de la Pepiere Muscadet Sevre-et Maine La Pepie 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White Loire Valley Cabernet Franc fromThe 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,