2022 Domaine de la Combe Muscadet Sevre et Maine sur Lie, Loire Valley, FranceABOUT THIS WINE In the village of Saint Fiacre, in the cradle of the appellation between the iconic rivers of Svre and Maine, at the lieux dit, la Ptire. It is a blend of most of the plots of the domaine, subsoil are : schist, Orthogneiss and Gneiss 2 Mica. As the domaines geology is a Combe, the vines benefits multiples exposures with a 45 meters elevation plate, a south exposure slop and a northern exposure slope. Harvested at the optimum maturity,

chilled if necessary

The vines are pruned in single Guyot style

Unfortunately there will always be the vintages where treatments with copper sulphate and sulphur are necessary to avoid vines from dying like 2013 and 2015

Specifically a slope of vines called the “Roter Hang” (the “red slope

Southern and south-eastern sun exposure brings ripeness to the grapes

It is Elisa’s father Alain who started to focus only on wine in 1970

The vines are 25 years old on average

the family signed a nine-year lease for parcels in the famed Bernkastler Doktor:

ideal conditions to reach maturity

to allow natural yeast fermentations

poise and impressive length with silky

it starts a conversion into organic farming with Ecocert label