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Domaine de la Pèpiere ‘Merci’ Muscadet Sevre-et-Maine, 2020

$15.00
Domaine de la Pèpiere ‘Merci’ Muscadet Sevre-et-Maine, 2020

Domaine de la Pèpiere ‘Merci’ Muscadet Sevre-et-Maine, 2020

$15.00
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Domaine de la Pépière is a leading protagonist in importer Louis/Dressner’s universe. The institution was the first Loire winery in the LDM book, and their wines are renowned worldwide as delicious and cellar-worthy Muscadet. In a remarkable twist of fate and flex of serious winemaking talent, the 2021 weather disasters in Northern France served instead to inspire rather than defeat: unable to release their trademark ‘La Pepie’ cuvée due to hail and frost and other vineyard tragedy, the Domaine has elected to rely on some really great neighbors. This wine, cuvée “Merci” (thank you in French), is a blend of selected tanks of fully vinified wine from two of Remi and Gwen’s vigneron friends that the pair bought in order to have something fresh to release in 2022. Although this is not an estate Pépière wine, it is incredibly delicious and an honest paradigm of Pépière’s style. Light, lemony, incredibly refreshing, with a bit of texture and complexity from the lees aging. There’s a reason we’ve christened the summer of 2022 as the Summer of Muscadet: It’s a perfect wine to enjoy while relaxing in the sun. For food, the cliche partnership is Muscadet with oysters, a delicious combo indeed, but I personally want my La Pepie “Merci” to go with an order of Moules Frites with a Dijon mustard sauce. Absolute perfection. 

What more could you ask for? -JWK, Summer Catalogue 2022