Les Bêtes Curieuses began in 2005, when Jérémie Huchet and Jérémie Mourat met by chance at the London Wine Fair and decided to make wine together.
Huchet farms cru communal vineyards across some of Muscadet's best-known zones, while Mourat runs his family's estate in the neighboring Fiefs-Vendéens appellation, and together they built a small range centered entirely on the Melon de Bourgogne grape.
This bottling comes from vines rooted in granite, an intrusive rock formed as magma cools slowly deep underground before being pushed upward over millions of years, which is what gives the wine its distinct, vertical minerality.
It's part of a newer wave of Muscadet producers paying closer attention to terroir after decades in which the region's reputation suffered from overproduction and cheap bulk wine.
