Domaine de la Pepiere, la Pepie, Muscadet, 2022, 750 ml

100% Melon de Bourgogne. In 2016 for the first time, Pépière's classic, earliest-released Sur Lie bottling saw an addition to the label, the "La Pépié" moniker, because of the necessity of adding non-estate fruit to this bottling (Pépière had 85% devastation of their own crop in 2016); 2017 was also very challenging, though slightly less extreme in terms of loss, so "La Pépié" appears again because so does a little purchased fruit. Otherwise, the wine came as always mainly from the central 10-hectare vineyard of the estate on sandy, granite-based soils. Farming is organic and harvest by hand, as for all of the estate vines.