2023 Marc Pesnot ‘La Boheme’, Loire, Vin de France Magnum (1.5 L)

Marc Pesnot farms 22 hectares of fty year-old Melon de Bourgogne (the variety used to make all Muscadet wines) vines near the city of Nantes. In the beginning of Marcs winemaking career, he spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how he could plant and work with some grapes of better and more interesting quality than his humble and native Melon. After much tinkering with different amounts of skin contact and other natural processes, he finally realized that he didnt need any other grapes; that it was just the shoddy industrial work rampant in the region that was diluting the quality of his neighbors wines.

w/ La Boheme,melonisharvested by hand and destemmed. The fruit undergoes a slow manual pressing (for about 18 hours). The wine spontaneously ferments and rests on lees in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks for at least nine months. Bottled unfined, with a bit of sulfur and a light filtration throughterre diatom.