New Grand Cru

Good Muscadet Sevre et Maine Sur Lie is wonderfully refreshing and the ideal accompaniment to fresh seafood. The best wines have a lovely citric character, minerality and good length. In recent years they have been neglected – and therefore offer fantastic value for money.

The best vignerons of the region are now developing a range of Cru Communale wines from individual village sites and aged on the lees for an extended period.

In a feature in June’s Decanter magazine Ben Llewelyn said “These are exciting, versatile wines, especially for the UK market where people appreciate fresher more mineral, lower alcohol wines. Muscadet has everything : complexity terroir characteristics and ageability”

In the same article Chris Kissack likened Muscadet to Chablis “You can have your easy drinking lunchtime wines like Chablis but you can step up to your premier cru vineyards, and have your grand cru vineyards for something even better'

The Decanter tasting panel (completed by Jim Budd) were bowled over by the quality of these wines, but frustrated that few are available in the UK, saying that “when the trade, press and consumers taste these wines they will understand our excitement”.

We are delighted to offer Dominique Salmon’s Chateau Thebaud Cru Communale rated 93 points and highly recommended.

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