Description

Made by a family winery with remarkable longevity, in 1970 Pierre Luneau began specialising in Muscadet. Although this grape actually originates in Burgundy under the name of Melon de Bourgogne, it is the queen grape of the Nantes wine region (France). With impeccable work, he soon became one of the main champions of the lower Loire. In 2005, his son Pierre-Marie Luneau took the reins of the vineyards and, with his wife Marie, continued the efforts of the eight generations that had come before him to develop a sustainable and traditional viticulture. As a result of these expertise, they produce Domaine Pierre Luneau-Papin La Grange Vieilles Vignes, a wine from the AOC Muscadet Sèvre et Maine made with Melon de Bourgogne vines growing in their favourite land with soils composed of mica schist rocks and two-mica gneiss. They are cultivated using organic agriculture with biodynamic practices and manual harvesting by plot. Once the grapes reach the winery, they are vinified and aged separately, respecting the authenticity of each terroir. After spending time on its lees, the wine is bottled without filtration or clarification.