1006 - 'Minuit', Pet Nat, Vins de Loire, France (2022)

TASTING NOTES

Lively effervescent palate with a fresh and very floral nose. Crisp and bracing acidity, granny smith apples, pear drops and a cider-like tartness and grip.

Owing its name to the Loire river which runs 1006 kilometres from its source in the Massif Central to the Atlantic Ocean, making it the longest in France.

Pauline Lair makes minimalist wines in her urban winery in Angers. Sourcing fruit from growers farming biodynamically or organically. Fermentations are spontaneous, and elevage is gentle and respectful of terroir.

Minuit from the Muscadet area is a Folle Blanche that originates from 30 year old vines on granitic soils in their first year of organic conversion. Manual harvest, slow pressing, and spontaneous alcoholic and malolactic fermentation. Bottled before the primary fermentation is complete and released without disgorgement.