Domaine de la Pepiere, Muscadet Sevre-et-Maine Sur Lie "Briords-Cuvee Vieilles Vignes", 2025 (1.5L) 120725NRHONE or cellar for a few

or cellar for a few years to let its complexity unfold

Haut-Brion was the only non-Médoc property in the 1855 Classification's First Growths

Bruno and Emma

frothy mousse

but what makes this wine sing is the terroir conversation: limestone soil versus the marl-dominated parcels creates a distinctly different expression within the same estate

Domaine de la Pepiere, Muscadet Sevre-et-Maine Sur Lie "Briords-Cuvee Vieilles Vignes", 2025 (1.5L) 120725NRHONE or cellar for a fewCall it a grand cru oyster white, now in magnum. Pepiere is arguably Muscadet's finest producer, and 'Briords' is its oldest and most storied parcel: a small single vineyard of old vines, many 50 to 70 years and up, digging into fissured granite bedrock above the river Maine. That granite is the whole story here, giving a Melon de Bourgogne with far more power, cut, and mineral drive than typical Muscadet, aged sur lie to build texture and depth.