Jean Aubron Contact! Skin-Contact Muscadet (Melon Blanc) 2022 (750 ml)

Jean-Pascal's first foray into the world of orange wines is a crisp, mineral-driven wine. His old-vine Melon Blanc sees 14 days on the skins, is native yeast fermented, unfined and lightly filtered, with no SO2 added. The result is a refreshing, lightly ambered colored liquid that offers smoky, earthy orange zest and peach notes, backed by wet stones and a long, mouthwatering finish. At Jean Aubron, a domaine that resides outside of Nantes, near the Atlantic Coast, Jean-Pascal Aubron–a fourth generation vigneron–strives to make bone-dry Muscadet and other wines. And though the Muscadet-Sevre et Maine appellation allows for all Muscadet Sur Lie wines to contain 3 grams of residual sugar, and for all others to contain 5 grams, Jean-Pascal first and foremost pushes his fermentations to the end, to yield wines with zero residual sugar that are dry and crisp with high acidity, and suitable for aging. Coming from a family that has worked to maintain and grow its presence in Loire, Jean-Pasca