2015 Domaine la Paonnerie Muscadet Coteaux de Loire ‘Rien que Melon’

Price: $22 Region: Pays Nantais < Loire Valley < FranceGrapes: Melon de BourgogneVineyard/Cellar Stats: Certified organic/biodynamic farming, 60-year old vines; grapes are crushed and left for a short time on skins then aged in stainless tanks to ferment and mature for 6 months before bottling; bottled unfined/unfiltered with ZERO added SO2; 12% ABVWinemaker: Agnes and Jacques Carroget Agnes and Jacques are passionate about producing wines that retain their life and vibrancy. They eschew the use of sulfur, and are biodynamic to the extreme, most recently adding some special friends to assist with vineyard management – two adorable pigs (who get fed baguettes!) now roam the vineyards, eating the weeds and turning over the soil without damaging the soil’s biome. The wine’s name, Rien que Melon, which translates to “nothing but Melon”, is spot-on, as there is nothing in the bottle except for juice from the estate’s pristine Melon de Bourgogne grapes. Though technically they’re in t