bourgogne melon

Also known as: Muscadet (Loire)

Melon de Bourgogne is the grape variety behind Muscadet – a name so deeply embedded in the collective memory that the grape itself has become almost invisible. Originally from Burgundy, it found its home at the Loire estuary, where Atlantic coolness and granite-gneiss soils give it a saline minerality it shows nowhere else. The finest wines age for months sur lie, which lends them texture and depth without blurring their clear, reductive precision.

All our Melon de Bourgogne wines come from Luneau-Papin, a family estate with biodynamic practices that maps the various terroirs around Le Landreau with remarkable clarity.