TASTING NOTES:
Nose: Floral, mineral, herbs. White flowers, honeysuckle, acacia honey; river rocks and gravel; tarragon; honeydew melon.

Palate: Lively in the back of the palate with lingering floral notes even on the palate.

FOOD PAIRING RECOMMENDATION:
Sole meunière — sole (or other light white fish) with lemon + butter
or leek + goat cheese tart

ASHWIN'S REFLECTION:
Melon de Bourgogne — the variety in this wine — got kicked out of Burgundy in the early 18th century, banned by decree in favor of Chardonnay. It ended up in the Loire Valley where, after a catastrophic frost in 1709 wiped out much of the vineyards, the hardiness of the variety led to its spread in the region. For quite a long while (over 250 years), it made a decent, simple table wine to accompany seafood until, in 1991, merchants made a disastrous decision to bottle and sell poorly preserved wine from a previous vintage that destroyed Muscadet's reputation. What's bringing Muscadet back now is a new generation of producers who are paying much closer attention to the terroir and to the farming. In this case, we have granite soils which comes from magma that cools slowly below the earth's surface and pushes upward resulting in that vertical, mineral texture in the wine.