2020 Domaine De La Pepiere Muscadet Sur Lie Clos Des Br

2020 Domaine De La Pepiere Muscadet Sur Lie Clos Des Br

2020 Domaine De La Pepiere Muscadet Sur Lie Clos Des Br Cuvée Domaine de la Pépière is produced on a 12-hectares land. This vineyard in France is located on the hillside of the Maine, on a highly stony soil. The vines are 25 years old on average.

Domaine De La Pepiere

The domain since its creation wants only one thing: the expression of the terroir, of a terroir, of the terroirs. Very early on, Marc identified a plot cuvée “… wines in old barrels had different tastes, … a simple look at a geological map and I understood …”. Thus was born the Clos des Briords vintage: a plot of old vines on granite soils.

In 2006 we took over a very beautiful plot of vines: Les Gras Moutons. Plot located on the top of a small hill on the banks of the Maine, continuously swept by the wind and in which the Melon de Bourgogne is expressed on soils of gneiss.

We quickly realized that the expression of the terroir was linked to good wine-growing practices. An example ? The manual harvest has not left the estate since its creation.

Modern techniques and in particular the various oenological products now make it possible to change, correct and adjust this or that parameter. We have made the choice not to follow this path. Non-intervention in the cellar guides our choices in the vineyard.

We have therefore devoted ourselves for many years to obtaining grapes of perfect quality. So to promote the natural enrichment of the grape, we have developed 3-wire trellising, thereby increasing the leaf area and therefore the amount of sugar in the berries.

This technique coupled with a short size thus avoids chaptalization (addition of sugar) in the cellar. Fermentations take place naturally thanks to the yeasts present on the skin of the grapes.

Since 2006 we have banned weedkillers: the soils are plowed and scratched. The following year it was natural for the estate to choose organic farming. To treatments based on copper and sulfur we add various plants. We collect nettle, comfrey and horsetail on the banks of the Maine and bring them in the form of infusion, fermented extract, decoction.