Domaine de la Pepiere Briords Muscadet de Sevre et Maine Sur Lie Magnum 2025

Pépière's granite soils in the Loire give this Melon de Bourgogne its spine. Certified organic farming on vines planted between 1950 and 1989, which is a long memory for a grape most people still think of as cheap seafood wine. Direct-pressed, fermented in stainless, then eight months on its lees in glass-lined underground vats: that's where the texture comes from, a saline mid-palate with real weight behind the citrus. Minerality you can actually taste, not just read about.