2022 'Clisson' Muscadet Sèvre et Maine

Beginning in 2005, Marc Ollivier at Pépière produced this beautiful cuvée from a small parcel of 50 to 100 year-old vines within the Pépière vineyard. Originally called "Granite de Clisson" after the unique bedrock in the vineyard, Marc changed the name to "Clisson" to agree with the new INAO Cru Communal classification.

The granite is covered with gravel and clay with large stones, ensuring good drainage and deep penetration by the roots into the fissures in the bedrock, bringing the mineral elements indispensable to this wine.

Not produced in 2021 due to frost, the 2022 spent 2 years on the lees before bottling and offers a ripe, elegant, full-bodied style that will drink beautifully young and will develop further over 15 to 20 years.

"Concerning the Clisson 2022, it was an early harvest, the grapes were picked on September 5 and 6. The harvest was beautiful, with perfect ripeness. Often on early vintages we can have high sugar concentrations because the maturity dynamics are faster. On the 2022 vintage we have a concentration that is not very high for an early vintage with a perfect alcohol content of around 12.5% (on warm vintages we sometimes have 13 or 13.5% alcohol).

Concerning the tasting we have slightly grilled, toasted notes on the nose, with aromas of ripe fruits, citrus fruits, honey and quince. The palate is rich (but not hot), a dense and well-structured ripe fruit mixture of white peach and quince. The palate is long and the finish ends with a very small bitter note (a note very typical of the 2022 vintage)."

Remi Branger, Winemaker