Eric Chevalier La Noe Muscadet Cotes de Grand Lieu Sur Lie 2014

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Varietal

Region

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Vintage
2014

Size
750ML

ABV
12%

Features
Green Wine

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

The first glass is perfect with oysters—it is streamlined, saline, and full of lemon. Shortly after, the granite terroir kicks in, the wine becomes more full bodied, and chamomile and apricot notes lead to a rich finish—perfect to accompany local fish dishes.

Professional Ratings

  • 95
    When Eric Chevalier took over the 63-acre Domaine de l’Aujardière from his father in 2005, he began to focus on bottling wine rather than selling grapes. He now produces a range of vin de pays as well as two Muscadets, including La Noë, from a ten-acre parcel on granite soils, where the vines are from 20 to 60 years old. As with his other wines, he ferments the fruit from this parcel in underground, glass-lined tanks without added yeast. He doesn’t rack or filter the wine, capturing its bold mineral savor in deep tones that feel close to the earth, in delicate scents of linden and white cranberries. Within its Atlantic context, the texture is luscious and rich while the flavor is not at all sweet. This is gracious and beautiful Muscadet, a wine collectors may choose to age, and one that drinks well right now, lightly chilled, with a plateau de fruits de mer.

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Éric Chevalier is a rising star in the Nantais of the Loire Valley. For ten years, he sourced fruit for a large négociant in the Touraine. In 2005, he decided to return to his hometown of Saint-Philbert de Grandlieu, just southwest of Nantes, and ended up taking over the family domaine, Domaine de l’Aujardière, the next year. His father, a talented vigneron who did not bottle much of his wines and was well-known as a high-quality source of bulk wine, had stopped working the vineyards and the vines were either going to have to be pulled up and replanted, or sold. Éric was anything but enthusiastic. Little by little his passion grew, and today he is proud to be the fourth generation to farm the domaine. He is also proud to be bottling more and more of the family’s production himself. Éric sustainably farms twenty-five hectares of vines, producing wines of great character and finesse. He found his future in his family’s past.

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Made famous in Muscadet, a gently rolling, Atlantic-dominated countryside on the eastern edge of the Loire, Melon de Bourgogne is actually the most planted grape variety in the Loire Valley. But the best comes from Muscadet Sèvre et Maine, a subzone of Pays Nantais. Somm Secret—The wine called Muscadet may sound suggestive of “muscat,” but Melon de Bourgogne is not related. Its name also suggests origins in Burgundy, which it has, but was continuously outlawed there, like Gamay, during the 16th and 17th centuries.

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The Pays Nantais, Loire’s only region abutting the Atlantic coast, is solely focused on the Melon de Bourgogne grape in its handful of subzones: Muscadet-Sèvre et Maine, Muscadet-Coteaux de la Loire and Muscadet-Côtes de Grandlieu. Muscadet wines are dry, crisp, seaside whites made from Melon de Bourgogne and are ideal for the local seafood-focused cuisine. (They are not related to Muscat.) There is a new shift in the region to make these wines with extended lees contact, creating fleshy and more aromatic versions.

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